Wetland Restoration Project Update
Lots of behind-the-scenes things are happening with the Wetland Restoration Project - so it must be time for a quick update...
News
Do you have any old landscape photos of the Discovery Bay Coast?
As a follow-up to a recent Blog about an old article on the Bridgewater Lakes, we are asking for people to consider if they have any old landscape photos of wetlands along the Discovery Bay coast - particularly Long Swamp (but any others would be...
Nature Glenelg Trust recognised as a partner in the NRM Alliance
Further to Nature Glenelg Trust signing the NRM Alliance Memorandum of Understanding back in October, we are now formally recognised as a partner in the Alliance on the Naturelinks Website.You can view the Naturelinks partners page here. This website is a good place to find...
Applications Open for the Community Nursery Project Co-ordinator Position
As you all know, over the past few months Becky McCann has been helping get the Community Nursery Project up and running. As a result, communication with the revegetation sector across the region is well underway and (thanks to everyone’s input!) the immediate tasks for...
Coming Event… An evening of “Fish and Flows” talks in Nelson
On Wednesday the 19th of this month, Nick and I will be heading down to Nelson to participate in an informative evening being organised by the Glenelg Hopkins CMA.We will be providing members of the community with an opportunity to hear about the results of...
More threatened fish reintroductions into the Lower Lakes
The three rounds of threatened fish reintroductions to the Lower Lakes [a collaboration between Aquasave - NGT and SARDI (Chris Bice) as part of the Critical Fish Project Critical Fish Project funded by the CLLMM group of DEWNR] has just been completed. During this round, Chris and...
The Discovery Bay Dunes – An interesting article from 1978
When Lachlan and I were in Hamilton recently to catch up with a few different people at the Glenelg Hopkins CMA office, Stephen Ryan pointed out a couple of old photos and an article that had turned up in a recent clean-up.Being a bit of...
Spreading the pricklyback word!
I recently gave a presentation entitled 'Pricklybacks on the brink: an updated assessment of Glenelg Spiny Crayfish within rising-spring habitats of the south east of South Australia' at the 51st Australian Society for Limnology (ASL) conference in Armidale. It was a great opportunity to highlight the plight of the...
New Aprasia aurita Population!
By Alix BaltaisThis week we bring some particularly exciting news for the Aprasia project. We have discovered a new population of Aprasia aurita!!While only one individual female was found we hope we can find a few more as the weeks progress. This site is quite...
Nursery Site Progress
I managed to put in another couple of days of demolition work at the nursery site last week, continuing the process of stripping back the buildings to give us a clean slate to work with in setting up the site.Here are the latest progress photos...