Heathland is one of the oldest recognised ecosystems in the world and, in southern and western Victoria, is found on flat to gently undulating country. Typically, this ecosystem has nutrient-poor, acidic, sandy soils with vegetation comprised of a dense layer of low growing small-leafed shrubs,...
Surveys for the Silver Xenica butterfly have commenced once again this autumn with the aim of confirming if two translocation sites near Glencoe (north-west of Mount Gambier in SA) still contain the butterflies. The surveys involve walking at a slow pace along pre-determined transects to...
NGT's Tassie team Bec and Justine have been out and about at Long Point, Tasmania doing some water level monitoring in the saltmarsh. They saw some beautiful regenerating samphires (Salicornia species) - aren't the colours spectacular, and it sure looks muddy! Meet Vicki, who is in...
I recently came across this interesting article in the Conversation, which looks at the story of the recovery of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot on three of Victoria's offshore islands - French, Phillip and Churchill Island - and also some of the wider issues facing the...
A few weeks ago, members of the SW Vic Eastern Quoll Hub, caught up again for a planning session at Rhynie Pastoral's Shepherds Hut Sanctuary, where we also had the privilege of seeing a lot of wonderful wildlife (like bettongs and bandicoots) after dark! Although...
A few weeks ago (on Sunday 3rd March) we celebrated World Wildlife Day, and to mark the occasion this year I caught up with Rod Sparks on his Weekends Program on ABC South East SA.In a wide-ranging chat that included topics like environmental change, recovery...
It is my absolute pleasure to announce the creation of the newest Named Fund in the NGT Foundation, made possible thanks to the generosity of Adrian Heard and Meredith Reardon. Last year, Adrian and Meredith made the decision to donate their small but wonderful bush...
Victorian-based supporters of NGT now have a new option for financially supporting our work!Nature Glenelg Trust is registered with the Victorian Container Deposit scheme as a charity, which means when you run your eligible single use containers through the recycling machines you can now choose...
As a non-profit organisation, volunteers are an integral part of the work we do at here at NGT. Our volunteers do vital conservation work, like sorting seeds and growing seedlings in the nursery, helping to restore degraded ecosystems through planting and weed control, assisting with...
Investigator College year 6 students and year 12 conservation and ecosystem management students recently spent two days at their Currency Creek campus undertaking fish surveys with NGT's senior aquatic ecologist, Sylvia. The enthusiastic students sampled six species of native fish, yabbies, freshwater shrimp and turtles....
