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Southern Bent-wing Bat Regional Action Plan and workshop

Posted at 14 Feb 2018 at 22:17h in News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East by Rose Thompson

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Our region is home to a very special critically endangered animal, one which you may not be familiar with – the Southern Bent-wing Bat. This small insect-eating bat roosts in caves all around the South East and western Victoria. [caption id="attachment_28375" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Southern Bent-wing Bat...

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Butterfly Walk at Penambol back in full swing!

Posted at 14 Feb 2018 at 22:17h in News, Photography by Bryan Haywood

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In 2000, Chris Wilson and I set up the Butterfly Walk in the Penambol Conservation Park with the last section of the walk finishing along the track between the park and Warreanga Native Forest Reserve. For 12 years I walked this tracked every week for...

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NGT article on Fleurieu Swamps in the latest edition of Wetlands Australia magazine

Posted at 14 Feb 2018 at 22:16h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, News, Wetland Restoration by Mark Bachmann

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To celebrate World Wetlands Day 2018, on the 2nd of February the Australian Government released the latest edition of Wetlands Australia. This time around, the magazine features an article on the restoration work NGT has commenced in the Swamps of the Fleurieu Peninsula, in partnership with DEWNR,...

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NGT has just turned 6 – and we have a big year ahead…!

Posted at 19 Jan 2018 at 00:11h in News by Mark Bachmann

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Welcome back to the NGT Blogs and E-mail Newsletter for the New Year! It is hard to believe but a couple of days ago, the 16th of January, marked six years since we launched NGT - and hasn't the time flown by? 2018 - our seventh year...

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The Great Goolwa Cockle Challenge a great success!

Posted at 19 Jan 2018 at 00:10h in Fish conservation, News by Nick Whiterod

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More than 450 people braved the hot and windy conditions to become citizen scientists during The Great Goolwa Cockle Challenge on Saturday. The mission was to find as many of the 2500 uniquely tagged cockles that were released prior to the event. In a great result,...

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Kids get Hooked On Fishing along the Limestone Coast

Posted at 19 Jan 2018 at 00:10h in Fish conservation, News by Lauren Brown

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Over the past few weeks, Sheryl, Nicole and I have been busy running our ‘Fishing for the Future’ clinics, which form part of the Coastal Connections School Holidays program. The fishing clinics are funded through the Recreational Fishing Grants program by the South Australian Government...

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Mainland Forgotten Fauna: Part 8 – The concept of “Shifting Baselines” helps explain why we have forgotten our mainland fauna

Posted at 19 Jan 2018 at 00:10h in News, Threatened mainland fauna by Mark Bachmann

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Although it has been a little while since we talked about our mainland forgotten fauna on the blogs, a valuable discussion last week with a couple of staff at the Glenelg Hopkins CMA has prompted me to kick this discussion off again. After our meeting,...

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A long journey for Australia’s long list of threatened species

Posted at 19 Jan 2018 at 00:10h in News by Rose Thompson

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We first heard about Tristan and 1900 Footprints a couple of months ago when he set out on his journey from Adelaide to Hobart - on foot. He named this undertaking "1900 Footprints" as he would be covering 1900 kilometres with the aim of raising...

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Narrawong Kang-o-meerteek small town transformation

Posted at 19 Jan 2018 at 00:09h in News by Lachlan Farrington

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The Kang-o-meerteek project is part of the Small Town Transformation initiative, which encourages communities to embrace a creative vision in their transformation. Kang-o-meerteek (Dhauwurd Wurrung for ‘mountain to sea’) is a public art project about cultural stories and meeting places in Narrawong. As a central...

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Swamps, Tea Bags and Climate Change

Posted at 19 Jan 2018 at 00:09h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Media, News, Square Waterhole Swamp by Tessa Roberts

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So what do tea bags have to do with swamps?...

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