After four years of searching, which included over 7700 net hours (number of nets per site times by the number of hours each net was set for - that’s also 321 net days), at almost 30 sites we have failed to detect a single Murray crayfish...
Lauren and Michelle recently hosted two fantastic aquatic workshops at Mt Burr Swamp for students from Newbery Park Primary School and Millicent High School. The clinics are part of the ForestrySA Schools Program which focusses on biodiversity education, including corridors. This workshop was aimed at...
Thanks to the wet spring last year, we finally saw NGT's Eaglehawk Waterhole (our restoration reserve in the Upper South East), back to looking at its best - with large areas of shallow seasonal wetland inundating the SA blue gum and buloke woodland flats for the first...
It's been another busy time over recent months, and NGT are fortunate to have been joined by another couple of fantastic recruits to our team: Ben Taylor, as a Senior Wetland Ecologist based out of Adelaide, and Michelle Sargent, a recent graduate who has recently...
If you've been out for a drive lately around the region, you might have been lucky enough to catch a glimpse of some of our wetland wildlife making the most of the swamps still filling as we head into the spring. One species that is definitely enjoying...
If you are, then the final Cross-Border Community Nursery workshop is just right for you! The nursery will be holding a final workshop with very special guest Jenny Guerin from the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and the South Australian Seed Conservation Centre. Jenny will be sharing...
On Saturday 12th August 2017, approximately 70 people gathered at Mount Burr Swamp to join Nature Glenelg Trust (NGT) for an informal afternoon to celebrate the successful fundraising campaign that led to the purchase of the property almost a year ago. With water levels rising and the...
The fishing in the Glenelg River has been firing the last few months, with plenty of anglers making the most of it. We’ve continued to receive a good number of frames as part of our mulloway citizen science project, which is funded by the Victorian...
It's taken a little while to pull everything together, but the huge job of collecting digging abundance data in the field for the Southern Brown Bandicoot (completed by 2016 NGT graduate intern Andrea Fullagar) - has led to a major review of the species in the South...
Things were looking a little bit bleak for our wetlands back in June when much of southern Australia experienced near record low rainfall for the month; but fortunately, back to back wet months in July and August have really got things moving...
