Spring is well and truly upon us, and it brings extra daylight, sunny weather, and the start of the Little Penguin Monitoring for the 2013-14 season! Many volunteers probably wouldn't recognise Middle Island and Stingray Bay in the photo below from this Tuesday evening...
Cath has sent through this summary of her trip with community members to Eared Worm-lizard sites last weekend - with some great news to report ...
Now that we are well and truly into spring and the days are that little bit warmer, over the past few weeks the number of casual observations of common reptiles getting out and about as you drive around the region has definitely picked up. The other...
Students from Tension Woods College recently made a great contribution to the development of the Community Nursery Project - Display Garden out the front of the DEWNR building in Mount Gambier. The students who are part of the School's youth environment group helped myself and...
Nature Glenelg Trust together with The Department of Environment Water & Natural Resources is pleased to offer two field based seed collection workshops led by highly experienced seed collector & bush regenerator, Neville Bonney. [caption id="attachment_3886" align="aligncenter" width="224"] Book now for two upcoming seed collection workshops![/caption] These...
Over the past couple of weeks I've been getting re-acquainted with some sites in the Caroline Forest where I was involved in the discovery of the Heath Mouse (Pseudomys shortridgei) almost 10 years ago, when conducting surveys with Troy Horn (ForestrySA) and Dan Harley (now...
I recently undertook a fish survey – for DEWNR, funded through the Australian Government – across the Piccaninnie Ponds system (following on from annual sampling in 2011, 2012). The survey assessed the status of fish species across the diverse range of habitats and, specifically, explored...
The Sowing the Seeds of Success Forum held recently in Hamilton was well received with more than 60 people attending from various parts of Victoria and South Australia. Linda Broadhurst kicked off proceedings with a talk titled: Improving the past, present and future of Australian restoration...
On Friday the 15th November at 7pm, Sean Dooley will be at the City Hall in Mount Gambier to talk birds. Sean is currently the editor of Australian Birdlife, and authored the book “The Big Twitch”, after breaking the Australian birdwatching record in 2002. Nature Glenelg Trust...
For those of you that would like to know a little more about NGT’s logo, catch up on the latest information available on the Ancient Greenling damselfly through this recent publication in the South Australian Naturalist. The flight period of this magnificent creature begins in late...
