To end what has been a very different year for all of us, we decided to go with the flow and hold the annual NGT workshop online last month. As many of us are now finding with meeting this way, it actually worked quite well...
Don't forget, if you're still looking for last minute Christmas gifts, NGT has personalised cards available! Make a donation to NGT before Christmas and you can be issued with a lovely card for the recipient to recognise a gift made on their behalf - see...
Did you know that bats make up 20% of the world’s mammal species? All sorts of misconceptions exist around our nocturnal flying friends, but bats are super interesting, diverse, and helpful to humans!I recently gave a talk at the Limestone Coast (LC) Landscape Board’s Bat...
With little fanfare (although that may still be to come!), in the past couple of days we've noticed an update to the EPBC Act list of threatened ecological communities in Australia, on the Australian Government website.On the 15th of December 2020, the Karst springs and...
When you think of pre-European vegetation in south-east SA, what do you see?An old Red Gum standing guard over a waterhole, a carpet of flowers and sedges spreading from its feet? Brown Stringybarks twisting toward the sky from heathy sandhills? Or a dense landscape of...
NGT is excited to be a part of the Robe Summer Holiday Program in January 2021. The program is full of a wide variety of events that will appeal to all interest and age groups. Jess will be running multiple sustainable fishing, rockpool rambles, and...
Last month Lauren B and I spent a few days sampling the Surry River estuary in Narrawong, south-west Victoria. This small pilot study aimed to look at possible sampling methods and locations for a longer-term program to build more understanding and community awareness around the...
After a year of a constantly juggling things on all fronts within NGT, I'm personally looking forward to a bit of down-time over Christmas and New Year. But I have a confession to make - I do have one big regret this year! After Walker...
The Mt Gambier Rail Trail revegetation project has achieved an encouraging start (despite impacts of COVID-19) with Year One plantings, late spring watering and weed control/maintenance completed. By next spring we should begin to see some of the colours, shapes and textures of the diverse...
NGT is very pleased to announce that we have found five different species of peacock spiders (so far) on our reserves! Peacock spiders (Maratus spp.) belong to the jumping spider family (Salticidae) and until recently were quite poorly known. I have become fascinated with these...
