Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East

Posted at 30 Aug 2016 at 02:55h in Fish conservation, News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East by
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This year, I’ve spent some time kayaking the crystal clear waters of Eight Mile Creek and other unique karst spring systems in search of the Ewens (or variegated) pygmy perch. This species has an incredibly small range, occurring only in Eight Mile Creek (including Ewens...

Posted at 22 Aug 2016 at 02:07h in News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Swamp Gum Woodlands by
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The planting season has finally come to end, with all of our threatened flora planted out at their respective sites this month. The above average rainfall this winter has allowed for later planting than normal but has also delayed planting in wet sites. The Restoring Under-represented Ecological Communities...

Posted at 06 Aug 2016 at 19:33h in News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East by
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[caption id="attachment_15580" align="alignleft" width="300"] Students discussing their find[/caption] On the first day back of Term 3, 25 July, students from Glenburnie Primary School joined NGT staff at a bush block in the Wattle Range region to plant Stringybark seedlings for the endangered Red-tailed Black Cockatoo. The...

Posted at 06 Aug 2016 at 19:31h in News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Threatened Orchid translocation, Threatened Orchids by
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In recent threatened flora news we have two sub-projects of RUEC to talk about: Avenue Cassinia (Cassinia tegulata) and threatened orchids. Avenue Cassinia is a critically endangered shrub endemic to the area between Kingston SE, South Australia, and Edenhope, Victoria. There are only about 1200 known...

Posted at 23 Jul 2016 at 03:30h in National Landcare Programme, News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East by
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We’re still in the midst of planting season, and in the next couple of weeks NGT will be undertaking a translocation of the nationally threatened Avenue Cassinia (Cassinia tegulata) as part of the RUEC project (to follow on from threatened orchid and Trailing Hop-bush translocations we...

Posted at 12 Jul 2016 at 14:33h in News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East by
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Last month, on June the 28th, the last of our native orchids were planted out on to private property near Robe, with 41 Little Dip Spider-orchids (Caladenia richardsiorum) planted in-between rain showers for the Restoring the Under-represented Ecological Communities project. Last year NGT planted nearly 900 purpose...

Posted at 28 Jun 2016 at 11:42h in Heath Mouse, News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Swamp Gum Woodlands by
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Natural Resources South East and Nature Glenelg Trust joined forces over the last 7 months to roll out a number of community workshops as part of the Restoring Under-represented Ecological Communities project (RUEC). The aim of the workshops was to seek input and engage with the community, landholders...

Posted at 11 Jun 2016 at 18:40h in News, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Species of the month by
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Without much fuss or fanfare, several weeks ago six species were added to the 'Vulnerable' category under our national environment legislation - the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. One of those species, the mainland sub-species of Swamp Antechinus (Antechinus minimus maritimus), occurs across a large stretch of NGT's focal...

Posted at 31 May 2016 at 15:51h in Conservation of Glenelg Spiny Crayfish, Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East, Yarra Pygmy Perch Recovery by
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A large crowd of about 55 community members packed out the Port MacDonnell Community Complex last Thursday evening, the 26th May, to learn about our region’s unique Karst Rising Springs (KRS). Speakers Mark Bachmann and Nick Whiterod tag-teamed to first present the history, background, and current challenges...