Over the past few months, since the ABC news story about Walker Swamp resonated around the world in February, we've continued to see an increase in new subscribers to the NGT monthly email newsletter - which is really fantastic. If you are one of those...
On a sunny day in November last year, I was doing fish sampling in various wetlands at Mt Burr Swamp when something caught my eye. In the net I had captured something tiny that I had seen before; I recognised it by the beautiful orange...
Over the summer months, Sheryl, Bryan, Jess, Taylah - along with students from Grant High School - have been exploring the wetlands at Mt Burr Swamp to obtain a better understanding of the aquatic fauna on the property. While the largest and most prominent wetland is...
Last Friday I dropped into NGT's Green Swamp Restoration Reserve to download some water level data from a logger we have had out there for the past six years. This is something I do twice a year, usually in spring and then again in March....
Over the past couple of months, I have been busy working on a range of educational projects and activities - from running bird courses with the community to connecting local schools with education opportunities at Walker Swamp. In fact, the latter was featured in a...
In recent weeks, the Limestone Coast Landscape Board has partnered with NGT to deliver a couple of fun and educational citizen science events. First up, back in mid-February we had an event focussed on bats and their food sources for local landholders. Rose and I set...
My name is Becci and I am the new volunteer coordinator for Nature Glenelg Trust. I started in February 2021 and I am still really excited about this new role, helping out to manage, promote and coordinate the volunteer events and being the contact person...
The weather was perfect and the year 5's at Investigator College were excited to be fish ecologists at Currency Creek for the day. Students had the opportunity to undertake fish and turtle surveys using fyke nets and water quality monitoring with Sylvia from Aquasave-NGT. A...
This year is the 50th anniversary of the signing of the International Convention on Wetlands in Ramsar, Iran, on the 2nd February 1971, and to mark the occasion the Australian Government has released back-to-back monthly editions of its annual wetland e-magazine, Wetlands Australia.Last month we...
Earlier in the year we kicked off a series of coastal workshops supported by the Coast Protection Board with a reef ramble at Cape Douglas. We had several interesting and unidentified finds that day and put the call out in our post last month for...
