A lightning trip to Adelaide last week for the breakfast launch of the new Naturelinks Website, included the official signing-up of Nature Glenelg Trust and the National Trust, as new partners in the NRM Alliance. The alliance is now comprised of 11 NGO's active in...
Hot off the press is the latest BRG Newsletter October 2012, introducing this community group to Nature Glenelg Trust and our interest in wetlands. Anyone who is interested in restoring drained wetlands that may benefit Brolgas, is welcome to get in touch with Lachlan who is...
Hi everyone I’ve been busy in the background getting the Growing our Future: Cross-border Community Nursery & Seed Collections Project underway, and now here’s your chance to have input into what comes next! I have put together an information sheet, which not only gives you an overview of the project,...
A few weeks ago, I came across this fascinating snippet in the Portland Observer, referencing an article from 50 years ago. [caption id="attachment_1335" align="alignnone" width="567"] Devils have not been long gone, but seem to have been forgotten...
The early "word of mouth" response to the announcement of the wetland restoration program has been fantastic, with Lachlan and I getting around various parts of the region over recent weeks to meet with people interested in being involved. [caption id="attachment_1329" align="alignnone" width="300"] A wetland we visited earlier...
Please feel free to visit the new Dwarf Galaxias project page, which explains in detail what this small but significant project is all about. Many thanks to Nature Foundation SA for providing NGT with research grant funding to make this work possible. ...
It is now just over a week until I head to Melbourne to present at the 15th International River Symposium, on the 8th of October. In the lead up to the event, as part of the River Management Young Achievers Award, the organisers have released videos...
[caption id="attachment_1221" align="alignleft" width="300"] The Mighty Murray Cod (Ben Gawne)[/caption] I have recently had a paper published which is the first comprehensive assessment of the swimming capacity of the Murray Cod. The research outlined in the paper indicates that this large, slow growing species is a generalist capable of a...
Last Thursday evening I made the short trip down to Portland to speak to the South West Coastal Action Network. This provided me with an opportunity to introduce the concept of wetland restoration, and NGT's wetland restoration program on private land, being co-oridnated by Lachlan. Many thanks to members of...
Oisín and I had the tough task of spending the weekend traversing the Grampians National Park surveying Glenelg Spiny Crayfish as part of our genetics project. We came, we saw and we collected samples from several populations and now have good spatial coverage across the...
