On Saturday 14th December, perfect weather greeted a group of 40 people that had gathered to experience a leisurely and informative bushwalk in the Grampians National Park, near Dunkeld. [caption id="attachment_4348" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The group stop to listen about the bird monitoring being undetaken at the...
The publications page of our website has recently been updated! The page now includes details of publications produced since the formation of NGT (2011 to present) as well as relevant earlier ones by staff members. Some of these publications are linked to the document and we will continue to...
On this coming Saturday the 14th of December, why not join us for an informative look at Gooseneck Swamp - and learn all about the restoration trial underway at the site? Water levels in the swamp are holding - meaning there will be plenty of wildlife...
Last Wednesday 6 students completing Certificate 2 & 3 in Horticulture at Mount Gambier TAFE came down with their tutor, Joley Didwell, to find out what the Cross-border Community Nursery Project was all about. [caption id="attachment_4268" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Explaining propagation methods used in the nursery[/caption] All the...
Recently, Nature Glenelg Trust teamed up with the Department of Environment Water & Natural Resources and TAFE Mount Gambier to deliver two advanced seed Workshops led by Neville Bonney. These Workshops were aimed at people who already had a good knowledge of seed collection but wanted...
Nature Glenelg Trust and the Hamilton Field Naturalists Club invite you to join us on Saturday the 14th of December for an informative bushwalk at Gooseneck Swamp in the Grampians National Park, near Dunkeld. As well as the opportunity to learn about the natural values of the...
Recently botanist, Andrea Kodym told me that it was well and truly time to start bagging my heads. Although I was born and raised in Tasmania, that wasn’t what she meant. What Andrea was referring to was the fact that time was running out to bag...
During the heath mouse survey several weeks ago in Honeysuckle Native Forest Reserve, we came across an isolated bridal creeper plant growing up through a yacca. As we didn't have the right equipment to remove it immediately (given the dense mat of tubers the plant establishes...
Well, after another busy week of small mammal survey work down in Lower Glenelg River Conservation Park, unfortunately our target species - the Heath Mouse - was not found. Looking back over my old records, it turns out that I haven't captured them in this...
The community monitoring of Gooseneck Swamp is continuing, with Rod from the Hamilton Field Naturalists Club, along with Steve and Jane, kindly assisting by undertaking the monthly bird surveys of the site. The third monthly visit was recently completed. Other forms of monitoring that are occurring...
