On Saturday, 10th of November 2018, we celebrated community, art, history and the power of story-telling at a community event to celebrate the Kang-o-meerteek sculptures at Narrawong, Victoria. Over 140 people visited the two new sculptures and three years of dreaming, talking, designing, planning, digging,...
Anyone who enjoys time outdoors in Australia knows that snake encounters are something which we need to be aware of. Every time we head out on a ForestrySA biodiversity schools program excursion, the safety talk includes what to do if we see a snake. Although...
At the recent NGT workshop in Dunkeld, I spoke to other NGT staff about some of the special attributes and unique management challenges associated with Lake Hawdon South, one of the largest (3,200 ha) and most intact wetlands in the South East of SA. To give...
Local community members learnt about fish, frogs and birds in their local Hart Road Wetlands at Aldinga Beach on the 29th of November 2018. [caption id="attachment_31590" align="aligncenter" width="800"] NGT's Sylvia Zukowski talking all about the aquatic life in the Hart Road Wetlands[/caption] The event, organised by Onkaparinga...
Christmas in Australia often means Christmas beetles, and a bunch of hungry Christmas beetles means a Christmas battle! Christmas beetles are from the scarab beetle family, with a various species of different colours found around Australia. These green ones are likely to be from the genus Diphucephala...
I kicked off my year as an NGT volunteer in February, after making the shift from Wagga Wagga to Mount Gambier in pursuit of environmental work. As a volunteer, I was going on weekly adventures collecting seeds for revegetation, bush-bashing through bracken to help install pitfall...
Martu karu! (G’day) In July of this year I attended the book launch of Annie’s Story – Growing up strong on Boandik country, a children’s book based on the life local Boandik girl Annie Brice in the mid-1800s. Annie was author Michelle Jacquelin-Furr's great-grandmother and grew...
Last week, at the tail-end of peak grassland blooms, Greg, Sheryl and myself got along to Woorndoo on the Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) for a grassland restoration info day. The grasslands of the VVP have been almost totally cleared due to their suitability for agriculture, and...
NGT’s first Art in Science workshop took place recently at Kurrawonga, our conservation property in Nelson, Victoria. [caption id="attachment_31502" align="alignleft" width="300"] Exploring Kurrawonga through the lens. Image by Ockert Le Roux.[/caption] A warm and sunny day provided perfect conditions to spend a day focusing on insects. Ockert...
Our November working bee at Kurrawonga took place on a sunny Sunday. The plan was to spend a few hours grid searching the property, particularly the area with historically higher weed infestations, and then spend the other part of the working bee exploring and catching a...
