On Thursday this week, you can learn more about freshwater turtles in southern Australia, and what you can do to help with their future research and conservation. As many of you reading this are not situated near Strathalbyn and won't be able to attend, please...
Calling all keen bird watchers in SW Victoria!If you have excellent bird identification skills, are patient, a good teacher, and enjoy sharing your passion for birds, then please consider getting in touch with us.We've experienced a surge in demand for our bird watching courses (led...
Since our last update, I am pleased to report that the fencing materials order has been submitted by our works officer Tom Sheehan, in readiness for us to commence building the predator-proof fence around Mt Vandyke early next year. Thanks to everyone who has shared...
I've been really enjoying getting around the far southwest of Victoria these past few weeks, checking on how some of the sites we have rehabilitated are responding after a couple of years of decent rainfall. For a few of sites that have had a pretty...
Last Saturday, a group of very enthusiastic volunteers gathered at NGT's Long Point Reserve, Dunkeld, to help both Nature Glenelg Trust (NGT) and the Friends Of The Forgotten Woodlands (FOFW) recreate a masterpiece. Long Point lies north-east of Dunkeld and is named after the peninsula of...
Over the past couple of years, we've been exploring the potential for natural wetlands to be restored and enhanced as part of the land-use change process initiated by urban development. For more information on past stories, please follow this link.To highlight this potential, a recent...
On Saturday the 2nd of October, I had the pleasure of being invited to present at the 2021 Tasmanian Community Landcare conference in Launceston. The only problem is that thanks to Covid-19 impacting on travel options, I couldn't attend in person! But every cloud has...
The balance of the Mt Vandyke land purchase loan as at 30th Sept 2021 A small number of donations have still been coming in, which has helped to further reduce the Mt Vandyke land purchase loan balance - as of today (the 30th September), we've nudged...
There has been some media lately in the South East of South Australia (the Limestone Coast), that has introduced an exciting new concept in water management for the region - after the local Landscape Board attracted recent investment to establish what have been dubbed "Regional...
Recently, we heard about an offer of free seedlings with provenance from the Gariwerd/Grampians area. With this lining up well with our future revegetation plans for Walker Swamp, we had to follow it up! We are chuffed with the result that the School of Ecosystems...
