Nature Glenelg Trust together with The Department of Environment Water & Natural Resources is pleased to offer two field based seed collection workshops led by highly experienced seed collector & bush regenerator, Neville Bonney. [caption id="attachment_3886" align="aligncenter" width="224"] Book now for two upcoming seed collection workshops![/caption] These...
Over the past couple of weeks I've been getting re-acquainted with some sites in the Caroline Forest where I was involved in the discovery of the Heath Mouse (Pseudomys shortridgei) almost 10 years ago, when conducting surveys with Troy Horn (ForestrySA) and Dan Harley (now...
The Sowing the Seeds of Success Forum held recently in Hamilton was well received with more than 60 people attending from various parts of Victoria and South Australia. Linda Broadhurst kicked off proceedings with a talk titled: Improving the past, present and future of Australian restoration...
On Friday the 15th November at 7pm, Sean Dooley will be at the City Hall in Mount Gambier to talk birds. Sean is currently the editor of Australian Birdlife, and authored the book “The Big Twitch”, after breaking the Australian birdwatching record in 2002. Nature Glenelg Trust...
For those of you that would like to know a little more about NGT’s logo, catch up on the latest information available on the Ancient Greenling damselfly through this recent publication in the South Australian Naturalist. The flight period of this magnificent creature begins in late...
With water continuing to trickle in from the Wannon River, water levels at Gooseneck Swamp remain fairly stable, with the gauge board on site only showing a minor decline in depth in the past month. The most recent visit (by Bryan Haywood and Steve Clark)...
On Saturday the 12th October I headed over to Melbourne to attend the ANGFA convention, and gave a presentation about the ecology and management of three coastal wetlands near the SA/Vic border that NGT has a close association with: Ewen’s Ponds, Piccaninnie Ponds and Long...
Dr Linda Broadhurst, a Research Scientist with the CSIRO, will be a keynote speaker at NGT's "Sowing the Seeds of Success" Forum in Hamilton on the 22nd of October. For more than a decade Dr Broadhurst’s research has focused on how vegetation fragmentation is influencing...
[caption id="attachment_3753" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The small, picturesque wetland on private land at Gorae[/caption] This small wetland restoration project involved the installation of a temporary sandbag weir in a very old artificial drainage channel on a property at Gorae near Portland in South Western Victoria. The landholder...
During the week, the latest edition of Lentic was released; a small newsletter produced by the Society of Wetland Scientists Oceania Chapter. On page 6, you'll find a full account of the recent restoration journey at Gooseneck Swamp - presented as a feature article. You can download and...
