Have you you heard about eDNA (or 'environmental' DNA)? Well, Aquasave-NGT's Nick and Sylvia have been awarded a grant through the Nature Foundation to utilise this sampling technique in combination with traditional net sampling to try and detect small bodied fish (up to 15cm length)...
Down in the South East of SA, we’re all about the limestone. As well as being the key ingredient in many of our landforms and resulting in spectacular karst formations, its presence at varying depths and densities drives the composition of much of the native...
Opportunistically, I dropped by Wadmore Park in mid-July during a visit to Adelaide from the Limestone Coast. The weather was kind and lately had been mostly sunny, so it struck me as a great chance to see what might be calling within the Fifth Creek...
After a positive response to the story late last year about lighting striking twice for Lewin's Rail captures at Lake St Clair during mammal surveys, I thought I'd go back through the archives to see what other gems might be lurking in the old mammal...
I recently took a week off to visit Whyalla in the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia, something I had been wanting to do for several years. Why Whyalla? Each winter, from May to July, thousands of Australian Giant Cuttlefish Sepia apama gather there to breed,...
More typically encountered in the arid interior, it was a nice surprise to recently receive news of a sighting late last year (2019) of the Black Honeyeater in Geegeela Conservation Park, which is only a short distance from Eaglehawk Waterhole, NGT's reserve near the SA/Victorian...
Last month we introduced you to Hanna Swamp, a little known wetland near Wallan, north of Melbourne.This month, we are exploring in fine detail the intricacies of how overarching Victorian Government water policy (like the Integrated Water Management (IWM) Framework and Healthy Waterways Strategy) converges...
The Surry River estuary at Narrawong in south-west Victoria contains the 'Salt-Wedge Estuaries Ecological Community'; which is one of 25 known representations of this community along the southern Australian coastline, from the South Australian/Victorian border to Wilson's Promontory in Gippsland. The Salt Wedge estuary community...
Our fifth edition of the mulloway tagging newsletter is now available to download and read (also see below). While the first few months of the year were quiet in terms of recaptures (no doubt influenced by COVID related restrictions), June and July have seen 12...
[caption id="attachment_37622" align="alignright" width="300"] Clayton's Crayfish (Euastacus claytoni) [Rob McCormack][/caption] Spiny crayfish from the Euastacus genus are an inconspicuous casualty of the widespread and enduring bushfires that profoundly impacted Australia over 2019–20. As with other freshwater animals, spiny crayfish were not only directly impacted as the...
