(Note:Â this article was written in May 2020) Over the past 8 and half years, I have been regularly asked all sorts of questions about Nature Glenelg Trust (NGT) - usually when out and about at community events or when giving presentations to community groups -...
Over three wet days in early May, NGT staff (Mark and Ben) got to work with the assistance of an earthworks contractor, backfilling more artificial drains within Stipiturus Conservation Park. This important reserve contains a signification portion of Glenshera Swamp, the largest and most intact...
Over the past two years, our end of financial year fundraising efforts were directed to paying off the land purchase debt on our Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve - which was a significant target for us. Thanks to your collective help over a period of 18...
Vale Mr. Fenton - by Mark Bachmann [caption id="attachment_36980" align="alignright" width="338"] John Fenton of Lanark - Photo courtesy of Rochelle Rudduck.[/caption] Every now and then you meet someone who makes a deep and lasting impression on you. In my own personal journey towards becoming especially passionate about...
[caption id="attachment_37002" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] The wonderful grassy woodland of Wadmore Park.[/caption] Campbelltown Landcare Group have invited NGT to undertake a fauna survey of Pulyonna Wirra (Wadmore Park) this year. The project aims to collate records on mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates in Wadmore Park, through various...
Since Winter 2019, NGT has been working with the CFA and the Balmoral Recreation Reserve Committee of Management (CoM) to control Hedge Wattle (Acacia paradoxa) within plains grassy woodland of the Dundas Tablelands bioregion at the reserve in south-west Victoria. You can read a bit...
It's time for a trip down memory lane, because we are now nearing the end of that wonderful time of year - autumn - which always takes me back to the cool, crisp nights of April 2008...
Yes, NGT love wetlands! Wetland restoration and research has been a big part of what the organisation has been about, right from the start. The team have worked across a vast array of different wetlands across south-eastern Australia. So for May 2020 we have a few...
After heavy rainfall a few weeks ago north of Melbourne, we got another temporary glimpse of a portion of Herne Swamp, the once expansive (but now artificially drained) natural floodplain wetland at the headwaters of Merri Creek.For those of you that may have missed it, we...
For the past few months my family and I have been charmed by very special visitors - Gang Gang Cockatoos! They are often exceptionally quiet, and if it weren't for catching out the corner of one eye the pieces of eucalypt nuts falling to the...
