In the dark of night, they announce their arrival with the leathery snap of their wings. Their wings span up to one metre! If you startle them accidentally, visions of Dracula may briefly flit through your head as they wheel through the sky. It’s that time...
Recent wet conditions over spring and summer have resulted in a bumper year for records of the nationally endangered Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus), or 'boomer', known for its deep booming call. In fact, for the first time since restoration, a Bittern was detected in early...
Last year, the southern bent-wing bat took out the inaugural title of Australian Mammal of the Year after a fierce competition of public voting. This small insectivorous bat has a limited distribution in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia and western Victoria, and after...
For the last 12 months, NGT’s bushcare crew has been working steadily away near the end of the Glenelg River at Nelson, on a DELWP-funded project tasked with battling invasive woody weeds.The key objective of the project is to help protect and improve key native...
In an exciting step towards Nature Glenelg Trust's long-term plan to return the Eastern Quoll into the forest surrounding Mt Vandyke, it is great to be able to share the news that we are partnering with the Dunkeld Pastoral Co Pty Ltd and Rhynie Pastoral...
The Greater Bilby (Queensland Government) Given the ongoing conversation we've been having about things like threatened mainland fauna, the new NGT project at Mt Vandyke and conservation fences, an interesting story from south-west Queensland late last year grabbed my attention.In this ABC News article, we heard...
A couple of months back, there was a fantastic little story on the ABC News website about Eastern Quolls in south-western Victoria. With so much other news to get through in recent months, we're finally managing to share it now! Eastern Quoll at the Dunkeld Pastoral...
Further to the previous edition of "Forgotten Fauna", a fantastic paper by Rob Wallis (see below this blog) was recently published in the Victorian Naturalist, and provides some great insights by sharing a number of early recorded observations of eastern quolls in western Victoria. As...
While the Mt Vandyke land purchase fundraiser is already in full swing (click here to see the latest update), I am now pleased to report that (as of last week) NGT's project team - led by our ecological experts Leah Kemp and Rose Thompson -...
For any readers who have previously completed the stretch of the Great South West Walk through the Cobboboonee forest, you might recall that not long after you leave the Fitzroy Camp, a small in-lying parcel of private farmland suddenly appears, situated on a volcanic peak...
