As we are now in the height of summer, the butterflies are emerging, so monitoring has commenced again at the Penambol Conservation Park Butterfly Walk (20 minutes south-east of Mt Gambier). All are welcome to join me! For an update on the history of the...
In 2017 and 2018 I spent eight weeks working as part of a small team of scientists to carry out the first baseline flora and fauna surveys on a project aiming to establish the first large National Park in Fiji. While reptile and amphibian numbers...
After seeing so many beautiful pictures of peacock spiders (Maratus spp.) on social media recently, I decided to head out bush myself in search of this elusive type of jumping spider. Knowing how small they are (only 3-5 mm), I wasn’t feeling overly confident but...
Way back in January, when 2018 had just begun, we said that we'd have some great news to share with everyone throughout this year. So let's recap what happened next...
Beginning in September 2018, Greg taught a Bird Monitoring Course to 30 keen participants in Dunkeld. Once a week for ten weeks Lu-Wei and I travelled to Dunkeld for the course and to undertake various flora and fauna monitoring tasks at Walker Swamp. Each session started...
It was a beautiful Monday morning at Kurrawonga and we had to take down one of our glamping-tents to get it repaired. The tent had been set up only a few weeks ago so we certainly weren’t expecting what happened next. After all the pegs...
Andy, our resident caretaker at Eaglehawk Waterhole, contacted me early one Sunday morning back in September with this photo of a large reptile he’d just seen. He'd been out fumigating rabbit warrens and said it “scared the %$#@ out of me...
During the January school holidays, there will be plenty of fun coastal activities for the kids to enjoy! We will be running a series of coastal sessions in Nelson, Narrawong and Warrnambool as part of the state-wide Summer By the Sea program, coordinated and funded through...
A couple of weeks ago we managed to get much of the team at NGT together for our annual workshop (unfortunately the majority of our native fish crew were still tied up in a busy field season that keeps rolling on, so we'll have to...
The recently approved NGT Annual Report for last financial year is now available to download from the NGT website. This is your one-stop shop for all the key summary information on NGT in 2017-18, including a suite of 15 case studies that illustrate the breadth of...
