Walking along the beach east of Port Fairy, local volunteers John and Joan Young saw a funny looking grass. There was some lovely silvery Hairy Spinifex (Spinifex sericeus), but right beside it was something that looked a bit different. A bit of googling, some emails,...
Out at Walker Swamp the water is building up. Mountain Duck pairs are hanging about, and we can hear the Brolga calling in the distance ...
Aquasave-Nature Glenelg Trust ecologists Lauren Brown and Nick Whiterod (with help from Ruan Gannon and Dan Macleod) have successfully completed the first survey of Australian Mudfish in the South East since 2010-11 (Mudfish monitoring - 2019 report). But first, some background to the story of the...
Return water, and wildlife will follow! It's not quite that simple, but restoration efforts over the last three years at NGTs Mount Burr Restoration Reserve have re-created wetland habitat for many important fauna species. The "Sunday Mail", recently published an article featuring NGT's Bryan and Rose (see below),...
Walker Swamp is slowly recovering. Everywhere there are signs of regeneration. Here are just a few photos of how the wetland is responding. [gallery size="large" columns="2" ids="34100,34082,34083,34094,34087,34088,34089,34090,34091,34092,34093,34096,34099,34086,34122,34123"]...
Saturday 8th June - Our fungi journey began on a beautiful morning in the local Bolwarra bushland in Victoria. Nicole and I joined the Portland Field Naturalists on a fungi survey led by fungi expert and mycologist, Dr Sapphire McMullan-Fisher. Sapphire introduced us to a wide...
Early winter rain and wetter soil created the perfect conditions to plant out the indigenous resource garden at the Narrawong District Primary School. All of the students gave Nature Glenelg Trust's Lauren K. a helping hand in planting some local and culturally important native species...
Nature Glenelg Trust received two awards atthe Glenelg Hopkins Environmental Achievers Awards ceremony held recently in Hamilton. We were presented with the Waterways Award for the Walker Swamp project and, in a new category for this year, Lauren Brown's Mulloway Tagging project received the Innovation Award. The...
On Wednesday 26th June at 8:15am, I embark on my Churchill Fellowship travels to explore world's best practice for the translocation of aquatic species (namely small fishes and freshwater crayfish). This is thanks to the generosity of Henry Rischbeith and his family through the Richard...
Volunteer Profile - David Lawson I’m a Taswegian and have been living in the South East of South Australia since 2007 when doctors told me to go somewhere warmer for my arthritis. You don't get any snow here, but I’ve found the weather in the South East...
