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...
By Nicole Mojonnier & Jonathan Tuck Nelson is a small town at the Victorian coast only a stone’s throw away from the South Australian border. It’s nestled along the beautiful Glenelg River, not far from the river mouth, and surrounded by the Lower Glenelg National Park....
It’s been roughly a year since we’ve had an update from Eaglehawk Waterhole, NGT's first Restoration Reserve located near Frances, SA. Over the past 12 months, we’ve managed considerable community interest in spending time at Eaglehawk Waterhole on a range of activities, including: bird watching and...
Since Winter 2019, NGT has been working with the CFA and the Balmoral Recreation Reserve Committee of Management (CoM) to control Hedge Wattle (Acacia paradoxa) within plains grassy woodland of the Dundas Tablelands bioregion at the reserve in south-west Victoria. You can read a bit...
NGT staff and volunteers kicked off the beginning of Autumn at Hutt Bay Wetland Reserve for our first Clean Up Australia Day event! We had a fantastic turnout of 21 people, who worked up and down the beach removing rubbish and lots of Coastal Cape...
The year may have only just begun, but NGT volunteers have already been actively involved in a range of projects and activities around the region. A number of volunteers have been doing a fantastic effort in helping Ryan manage the native plant nursery as part of...
Kurrawonga will once again be hosting an event for National Wattle day to celebrate everything wattle! Australia's national floral emblem is the Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha), as seen in the background of our poster below! From 9.00am - 2.00pm (Vic time) on Sunday 1st September, we...
NGT staff have been busy with a range of bushcare projects this autumn and winter. In one of these, the Glenelg Hopkins CMA called us in to work with Parks Victoria on woody weed removal at a remote spot in the Discovery Bay dune system. The...
Walking along the beach east of Port Fairy, local volunteers John and Joan Young saw a funny looking grass. There was some lovely silvery Hairy Spinifex (Spinifex sericeus), but right beside it was something that looked a bit different. A bit of googling, some emails,...
