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How is the Long Swamp Restoration Trial site holding up after a tough summer?
After an incredibly long, dry run over the last 6 months, the heavens finally opened last week, with Long Swamp receiving over 2 inches of welcome rain. Everyone is wondering of course: is this an early break to the season or a false start? Given...Exploring wetlands of the Discovery Bay Coast with the Hamilton Field Naturalists Club
Last Saturday I went on a bit of a trip down memory lane, as the Hamilton Field Naturalists Club (plus a couple of Portland Field Nats who also came along) came to see the various wetland restoration projects that have happened over the past decade...Robbie’s ‘home’ – that is, he’s back at Long Swamp!
While we were at the NGT annual workshop last week – the exciting news came through! Robbie the bittern had completed retracing his steps from earlier in the year, and after recently spending time at Pick Swamp, and then looking around the Glenelg River estuary...Matt Herring of the Bitterns in Rice project comes to see Robbie’s new home at Long Swamp
Today I had the great privilege of catching up with Matt Herring, who had just undertaken the same journey that Robbie the bittern did (albeit by land rather than on the wing!), by travelling from NSW to the coastal zone near the border between SA...Swamp Gum woodland restoration (Year one complete)
Posted on 07 Aug 2015 at 16:15h
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Swamp Gum woodland sites received a further boost recently with planting of understorey species in three lower South East sites. Rare species were planted out to create new colonies in Honan and Warreanga Native Forest Reserves with Troy Horn from ForestrySA. These areas are remnant...
Swamp Gums and native grasses – the focus of a working bee at Piccaninnie Ponds Conservation Park
Posted on 27 Jun 2015 at 11:35h
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The first of many working bees occurred within the Ramsar-listed Piccaninnie Ponds Conservation Park recently, whereby the Mt Gambier Friends of Parks group helped to create additional habitat through our Restoring Under-represented Ecological Communities project. This region-wide project (being run by Nature Glenelg Trust on...