After the success of last week's Aboriginal plant use guided drive/walk and Saturday's Silver Xenica Butterfly hunt, the April Biodiversity 'Up Close' events are shaping up to be brilliant.This includes two events where you get the chance to journey through time and discover fossils, megafauna...
Last Saturday I took the family across the the Lake Bolac Eel Festival for the day, where we had arranged to meet up with a small group of other families - and we had a great time.This small country festival has a friendly atmosphere and...
On Saturday, 23 participants joined naturalist and butterfly enthusiast Bryan Haywood from ForestrySA for a day of identifying local butterflies, particularly one threatened local species - the Silver Xenica (pronounced ‘Zen-i-ka’).Honan’s Native Forest Reserve was a beautiful setting, made even better as the sun shone...
The 2013 Up Close events kicked off on Sunday with 18 participants joining renowned local naturalist Neville Bonney on a driving/walking tour of how local Aborigines lived before and after European settlement near Carpenters Rocks on the lower South East SA coast.[caption id="attachment_2190" align="aligncenter" width="300"]...
In addition to Ken (below), who started a few weeks ago now, we've also welcomed Dan Anderson and Rose Thompson over the past couple of weeks to the NGT team.[caption id="attachment_2216" align="alignnone" width="300"] From the Ground Up - Autumn 2013 Edition, Page 2[/caption]Rose is doing...
The works are well and truly in full swing now at the nursery site, with the roof framing almost finished and a roof (hopefully) to go on the building over the next week.For the latest images in the sequence, see below...
Hi everyone,They're here! Nature Glenelg Trust along with Natural Resources SE and a host of partners bring you the Biodiversity ‘Up Close’ events - a series of FREE walks, talks and opportunities for you and the family to meet the experts and learn about the amazing...
Over the last week I had the opportunity to "circumnavigate" NGT's entire focal region in Victoria and South Australia - initially heading to Melbourne via Warrnambool, Colac and Geelong, before driving to Adelaide along the main highway via Horsham and Bordertown. Then after a few...
On Wednesday this week, Becky, Ken and I took part in a great day of discussion, information sharing and learning at Struan.The information day was a chance for people involved in the revegetation sector in the South East to hear about what everyone is up...
After working with Nature Glenelg Trust as a Scientific Officer since mid last year, Jessie McMaster is moving on to a great new opportunity.Luckily for us and the region, Jessie will still be about the place, having been offered a role with the Corangamite CMA,...
