Natural flows return for the first time in decades to a new section of creekline at Glenshera Swamp, near Mount Compass

Posted on 26 Jun 2020 at 00:01h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News 0 Comments

Regular readers will be familiar with NGT’s ongoing hydrological restoration work at Glenshera Swamp, on the Fleurieu Peninsula near Mount Compass. In the previous newsletter we described recent work completed to backfill an artificial drain that was denying flow to a natural, meandering creekline that formerly...

More waterway restoration works completed at Glenshera Swamp, near Mount Compass

Posted on 29 May 2020 at 16:18h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News 2 Comments

Over three wet days in early May, NGT staff (Mark and Ben) got to work with the assistance of an earthworks contractor, backfilling more artificial drains within Stipiturus Conservation Park. This important reserve contains a signification portion of Glenshera Swamp, the largest and most intact...

Downstream benefits of peat wetland restoration on the Fleurieu Peninsula

Posted on 26 Jul 2019 at 09:01h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News 0 Comments

As regular readers will know, Glenshera Swamp (including Stipiturus Conservation Park) is one of the largest and most intact examples of the critically endangered Fleurieu Pensinsula Swamps, and a site that NGT have been helping to restore in South Australia. Back in July 2016, several...

Swamps, Tea Bags and Climate Change

Posted on 19 Jan 2018 at 00:09h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Media, News, Square Waterhole Swamp 1 Comment

So what do tea bags have to do with swamps?… and climate change? A group of international researchers, with the help of citizen scientists, are using the humble tea bag to gain vital information on the global carbon cycle. This information will help them to...

Summing up recent wetland restoration tours of Glenshera Swamp, Stipiturus CP

Posted on 29 Oct 2017 at 09:55h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Wetland Restoration 1 Comment

On the 24th and 25th of September, NGT’s Mark Bachmann and Ben Taylor teamed up with DEWNR’s Randall Johnson to guide visitors around some of the recent restoration works at Stipiturus Conservation Park, 6 km west of Mount Compass. Stipiturus contains most of Glenshera Swamp,...

Sharing the restoration plans for Square Waterhole Swamp (Hesperilla CP)

Posted on 08 Sep 2017 at 18:14h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Square Waterhole Swamp 1 Comment

Well, it’s been quite a journey over the past 12 months in getting to know another important wetland on the Fleurieu Peninsula at Hesperilla CP (just south of Mt Compass), a small remnant portion of the originally much larger Square Waterhole Swamp. After digging through the...

Turning restoration planning into on-ground action at Glenshera Swamp, Stipiturus CP

Posted on 23 Apr 2017 at 10:41h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News, Wetland Restoration 2 Comments

It is just over 12 months since we completed the restoration feasibility assessment for Glenshera Swamp in Stipiturus Conservation Park, and I am pleased to report that the planning has now been turned into the first stages of on-ground action! Thanks in particular to the Fleurieu...

Mainland Forgotten Fauna: Part 7 – Bilbies, Malleefowl and other Forgotten Fauna of the Fleurieu Peninsula

Posted on 06 Dec 2016 at 12:14h in News, Threatened mainland fauna 1 Comment

You never quite know what you are going to come across when digging through old references, and in working through some historical material for the Tookayerta Catchment project I came across a real jem. In fact, although it has been a while since the last...

NGT talks about Glenshera Swamp and Lower Murray fish at the SA NRM Science Conference

Posted on 11 May 2016 at 02:06h in Glenshera Swamp restoration, Lower Lakes, News 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, a couple of NGT staff gave presentations at the SA NRM Science Conference in Adelaide. On the Wednesday afternoon, I gave an overview of the restoration options work that Lachlan and I pulled together for Glenshera Swamp, in Stipiturus Conservation Park. It was...

New trial kicks off in July and brings NGT’s massive 2023 round of wetland restoration works to a close

Posted on 31 Jul 2023 at 22:16h in News, Wetland Restoration, Wetland Restoration on Private Land 0 Comments

In the past couple of weeks, we’ve finally brought to a close all of our planned wetland restoration works for the 2023 autumn/winter period – and it has been a big year! Since February, our scheduled works have taken us all over south-eastern Australia, working...

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