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- Celebrating the life of James Darling AM: A tribute to one of NGT’s first and most loyal supporters 27/10/2024
On Sunday the 13th October 2024, a large gathering of family and the many friends of James Darling AM assembled at the Norwood Concert Hall to celebrate his life and impact.
The chance to hear from a range of family and friends about his energetic, diverse, full and inspiring 77 years of life, left me ...
- “Walking Plants” – Insights into the links between Aboriginal culture and the ecology of the Australian landscape 27/10/2024
Over the years, I have had a habit of gravitating towards stories of any research that explores the inextricable connection between Aboriginal culture and the ecological history of landscapes across the Australian continent.
Photo: ABC Sunshine Coast: Megan Kinninment (from: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-25/aboriginal-bunya-dreaming-festival-revived-in-queensland/10806994)
Something along these lines that caught my attention recently, was a really interesting article published in ...
- Ecologist chat on ABC – Ben talks wetlands, Nature Festival and Mt Vandyke 27/10/2024
NGT’s Ben Taylor, senior wetland ecologist based in Adelaide, recently spoke with Rod Sparks on ABC South East. This little chat is worth a listen as it gives a great overview of some of NGT’s important sites and projects. So sit back and enjoy an informative 9-minute listen, via the audio-player below.
In the interview Ben gives ...
- Trash and treasure – The joy of finding a bower in the bush! 27/10/2024
While out in the bush recently in Victoria, I came across this fantastic example of the handiwork of a male Satin Bowerbird… a bower, complete with an assortment of trash and treasure arranged in front of it!
Bower of the Satin Bowerbird. Photo: Mark Bachmann
As I haven’t come across one of these for some time, I ...
- Murray Crayfish trial success, and babies on the way! 27/10/2024
This is big! Murray crayfish, extinct in South Australia until just last year, have officially been sampled in SA for the first time in over 40 years!
As you may have heard NGT released the first 200 Murray Crayfish back into SA waters in May 2023, then completed a second release of a further 80 ...
- Can the Platypus be reintroduced to Adelaide’s River Torrens? 27/10/2024
Platypus in the River Torrens?! Yes, you heard correctly. Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) were likely found there in the past. In fact there were records from the early 1800s of Platypus in the River Torrens/Karrawirra Pari. However, Platypus have been effectively extinct in mainland SA since the mid-1970s, now only found on Kangaroo Island with a ...
- An immersive experience at Nature Festival with NGT 27/10/2024
The word “immersive” often gets used to describe something deeply absorbing, particularly a technologically generated experience that is very life-like. Well, at NGT we like to encourage people to get away from the artificially generated world and immerse themselves in the real, natural world. With that in mind we were thrilled to recently guide 18 ...
- Aquatic plants to boost habitat in SA 27/10/2024
Submerged aquatic plants play a vital role in wetlands, streams and rivers. They help purify the water and increase water quality, provide habitat and food to a wide variety of aquatic organisms and provide critical spawning habitat for native fish species to lay their eggs. Unfortunately many waterways are void of submerged aquatic vegetation. NGT ...
- Spring update from Mt Burr Swamp 27/10/2024
‘Planting, planting and more planting’ has been the catchcry at Mt Burr Swamp lately through funding from two sponsored projects from Graymont and Department of Transport and Infrastructure (SA). Over 5500 plants have gone in around the edge of the wetland to create riparian zone vegetation where it is still damp this past month or ...
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