Rosemary and John recently did a day of weed removal for Tarregal Landcare Group on a property on Cape Bridgewater, removing the prickly weed Apple of Sodom (Solanum linnaeanum). This nasty weed is unpalatable to stock and forms dense patches, harbouring rabbits and out-competing native...
As we welcome the new year, we've got some extra photos from late December to catch up on...
Firstly, Lachie shares a view over Walker Swamp to the Grampians, taken on Christmas Eve. You can clearly see the bushfire smoke in the background. As we write, this bushfire is still burning in the Grampians National Park and is yet to be brought under...
Ayesha recently caught up with John and Greg at the Woorndoo Community Day, about 75km north of Warrnambool. Hosted by the Woorndoo Chatsworth Landscare Group, the theme for the day was 'Iconic species of Victoria’s Western plains'. Greg and Ayesha presented and John heckled from...
Greg Kerr surveys waterbirds Lake Hawdon South near Robe in SA Structure recently installed on the inflow creek at Stipiturus Conservation Park. A block was installed across the eroding drain to lift and redirect flows into the natural creek meander (yellow dashed line) while allowing med/high...
It's been a busy spring so far, with lots of activity underway, including lots of planting!- At Mt Burr Swamp we've had some nursery vollies planting out Gahnia clarkei at Mt Burr Swamp to sustain local rare butterflies while we are re-establishing riparian zone vegetation...
We've had many wonderful visitors to our reserves and out and about lately: Firstly (below top left), a group from Hamilton Field Naturalists Club and our SW volunteer group out at Walker Swamp for tree planting, but it was too wet & windy! NGT's Ayesha...
At Mount Vandyke Restoration Reserve John photographed Tom and Andy carefully spot spraying Patterson's Curse after the burn and direct seeding works. They were also lucky enough to find a beautiful nest of plovers eggs! Isn't the patterning amazing? Last month Angela our NGT nursery coordinator...
Lots of fish action in Mildura this month! First up - about 1000 Olive Perchlet (also known as Agassiz's Glassfish) were released into a surrogate breeding dam on the 4th of June in Mildura, Victoria. This small native fish species is endangered in NSW, and...
Scott from NGT met up with local TAFE students studying conservation and ecosystem management to learn how to use fyke and seine nets to survey threatened small-bodied fish at the Ornamental Lake in Mildura. We detected Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeons in both seine net hauls and...
