The latest edition of Lentic, the newsletter of the Society of Wetlands Scientists, Oceania Chapter, has just come through. As well as some other interesting articles from other contributors in the latest edition (the full pdf version can be viewed here), the Gooseneck Swamp restoration...
Each Wednesday evening for the last 4 weeks the seed-sieves, secateurs and smoke water were moved aside as the NGT community nursery transformed into an art studio for the ‘Up Close’ botanical illustration course. Local artist and botanist Yvonne Riley ran the course for an enthusiastic...
The Up Close events for April are on their way! The Up Close program is heading to the coast for April with a marine theme, starting with SA marine life events at Mt Gambier and Port MacDonnell this weekend. Download a pdf of the flyer here,...
Thanks to the tremendous efforts of a group of 23 highly motivated community volunteers from around the region on Tuesday the 18th March 2014, the Brady Swamp Restoration Trial Structure is now in place. [caption id="attachment_5392" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The sandbagging crew in action![/caption] [caption id="attachment_5386" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]...
The autumn break signals the end of the breeding season for many of our seabirds. With most of the Little Penguins at Middle Island now finished their annual moult, there won't be much activitity at Middle Island for the months ahead. With our dusk arrival count schedule...
Thanks to Bob Green, the Convenor of BirdLife South East SA, for sending through this article about Pick Swamp (also see image below). I don't get down there so often any more, but it is a place that I continue to have a close connection to. As...
The next Up Close event is on Sunday March 23 at 9.30am SA time, when local butterfly expert Bryan Haywood from Forestry SA visits Dartmoor for an outdoor workshop on the identification of the butterflies of South East SA and South West Victoria. Bryan will...
The 2014 Biodiversity ‘Up Close’ events started not with a bang on Wednesday night, but the calm sound of pencils moving carefully across art paper. Local artist & botanist Yvonne Riley took a full class through the process of creating a botanical illustration - just like...
With Autumn now upon us we are busy working on some big and exciting restoration projects before the season breaks and this pretty significant dry spell comes (hopefully) to an end. Such has been the level of activity for the first quarter of the year...
The Autumn edition of From the Ground Up has just hit PO Boxes in the South East, and features a few stories involving NGT. Just in case you don't have a copy, you can download the relevant pages (FTGU Autumn 2014 - Crays, FTGU Autumn 2014 -...
