In Part 1 of this series, we got a sense of what the wildlife was like in the region in the 1890s, just a short time before the arrival of foxes. But where was the Dingo? - Since its recent arrival in Australia (only about 4000...
It was great to meet a really interested crowd at our OBP Info Session in Koroit on Saturday 25th, with many local groups represented, such as the Warrnambool BirdLife branch, Portland Field Naturalists, and Killarney Coastcare. Rachel Pritchard (from DELWP) and I gave an overview of the...
You may remember from recent blogs (here and here) that we have been undertaking a large revegetation planting at Eaglehawk Waterhole. The initial four day planting stint was followed up by two shorter one and two days sessions to complete the task for this year. Roughly 7500 seedlings...
This message is from Julie Groce at Monash University, undertaking research into private land conservation across Australia...
Another excellent book is available for purchase from the NGT office in Mt Gambier - Attracting Butterflies to your Garden: What to Grow and Conserve in the Adelaide Region. This beautifully presented full-colour book is packed with information about butterfly gardening. While the title is specific to...
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...
A few recent events and discussions have got me thinking about how little today we think about what our ground-dwelling mammalian forest fauna was really like across south-eastern Australia; both before the arrival of Europeans (including, long before that, dingoes arriving in Australia), and then after...
Earlier in the month, from Wednesday 15 - Saturday 18 June, NGT staff and volunteers camped out at Eaglehawk Waterhole to get this year's 20 Million Trees planting underway. The first day saw a us packing just under 8000 seedlings and gear into the back...
The signs of two dry years are still lingering but one can't help but feel optimistic that we might have turned a corner. With Warrnambool falling just 0.5mm short of achieving its highest May rainfall on record, and similar trends occurring to the north and west,...
Back in April, Liam and I spent a week exploring the southern Grampians in search of permanent pools along the Wannon River to identity key drought refuge sites (permanent pools) for native aquatic species. These surveys were part of a wider project (generously funded by the Victorian...
