Last Wednesday I attended the Brolga Recovery Group Meeting in Hamilton. We were hosted by the Southern Grampians Shire Council at the Hamilton Institute of Rural Learning. After the group meeting, I presented a quick summary of the Wetland Restoration on Private Land project and...
By Alix Baltais As we predicted, with the warmer weather our success with detecting reptiles has increased. Recent surveys have brought out many more of our opportunistically recorded species which is very exciting (refer to previous blog for list). Most exciting however is that a recent check...
I managed to put some time in last week to getting the Community Nursery site buildings upgrade underway - with a day of demolition work! Below are some images to show you the changes as they are unfolding. [caption id="attachment_1501" align="alignnone" width="300"] Site View 1 - Image...
Becky and I attended a workshop hosted by the Glenelg Hopkins CMA and DPI in Hamilton last week about Myrtle Rust. Normally the NGT Blog is a place reserved for positive messages about things that are happening in the region, but it was hard to come...
On the afternoon of Saturday 3rd of November, Lachlan and I had the pleasure of meeting with members of the Melbourne branch of the Australia New Guinea Fishes Association (or ANGFA for short). The group were staying in Port MacDonnell and, as an area of...
I made myself a note to post a link to this great panel discussion on the NGT Blog, which I heard while driving a couple of weeks ago on Radio National. Given the way that we chose to set-up Nature Glenelg Trust, as a mission (rather than...
On Thursday I met Billy Leggett (excellent fencing contractor and all-round nice bloke!) at Vansittart Park, and we made a start on the new internal boundary fence for NGT's Community Nursery Site. By the afternoon, we not only had the posts concreted into place, but I...
Over the last few weeks, Becky has been on the ABC airwaves again. Most recently, on the 30th October, she spoke with Stan Thomson to update regional listeners on the Community Nursery Project. If you are interested in hearing that interview, you can listen to it...
Here's an opportunity for you to have a spring clean, get rid of some unwanted things and contribute to kitting out the Cross-border Community Nursery site at Mount Gambier so we can grow a few plants this season. The items we're chasing are: An old bath (used to wash and reuse...
Hi everyone, I just wanted to invite you all to have your say on what activities, topics and themes you would like to see take place, and suggest where in the region we might host them, as a part of the 2013 ‘Up close’ Biodiversity events...
