As part of our ongoing 10th Anniversary Celebrations, Nature Glenelg Trust is inviting friends and supporters to join us for a fascinating bus tour of the Fleurieu Peninsula. During this bus tour we will drop by a number of sites where the NGT team has...
Join us, in collaboration with Mount Gambier based artist Julia Reader for a watercolour painting workshop at Mount Burr Swamp, drawing inspiration from the flora and fauna found at the reserve.All painting materials, and plenty of food will be provided. A special mention to...
If you love a good tree planting session, we've got you covered this October. On Saturday the 15th October we'll be planting in partnership with "Friends of the Forgotten Woodlands" along the Wannon River at NGT's Long Point Reserve, on the edge of Dunkeld. Then...
In the Goulburn Valley (in northern Victoria near Benalla and Shepparton) it has been a very steady late winter and early spring for rainfall, which is giving the new Rowan Swamp restoration trial structure a real work-out!As we reported last month, we had literally only...
It's shaping up to be another "half-decent" year for wetlands around the southern tip of the Grampians. Despite a very dry autumn and winter, spring rains arrived to get the catchment running. The Wannon River has been flowing south of Lynchs Crossing Rd since mid-August...
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...
Justine and I recently undertook a trip to Long Point, adjacent to Moulting Lagoon on the east coast of Tasmania. The aim of this trip was to download data from a network of water level and salinity loggers now installed across the site. It was...
The other day I was forwarded a fascinating story about a large-scale river restoration project in the Netherlands, which got me thinking about a number of things that relate to not just NGT's work here in Australia, but also the way that the environmental sector...
Data collected as part of the 2021 Census has highlighted that the number of people undertaking unpaid or volunteer work fell by 19% compared to 2016. COVID has played a big part in this decline but it's not the only factor, the decline has been...
Further to this update back in April, it is great to be able to introduce and welcome Carmen Bliss, our new Business Operations Manager and the final member of NGT's new management team. Carmen is based in Mount Gambier, but her administrative role covers the...
