Peatland restoration update: First glimpse of the latest works to rehydrate Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps

Posted on 30 Apr 2023 at 20:10h in News, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Square Waterhole Swamp 0 Comments

In late March and early April, I was back on the Fleurieu Peninsula, near Mt Compass (SA), overseeing the latest round of works to rehydrate a couple of the most important remnant peatlands in this part of the world: Square Waterhole Swamp and Glenshera Swamp....

Your chance to learn about 7 years of peatland restoration work: Join us for a Fleurieu Swamps field day in May!

Posted on 30 Apr 2023 at 20:08h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps 0 Comments

Last time we took a group of people to tour Glenshera Swamp, it was 2017 and our hydrological restoration works on the Fleurieu Peninsula had only just begun. It didn’t take long for water to be returned to this unique ecosystem, via blocking old agricultural...

Let’s go ‘around the grounds’… an end of year visual update on some of our major wetland restoration projects after a wet spring

Posted on 20 Dec 2022 at 10:04h in News, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Green Swamp Restoration Reserve, Hutt Bay Wetland, Long Swamp Restoration, Mount Burr Swamp Habitat Restoration Reserve, Rowan Swamp Restoration Trial, Walker Swamp Restoration Reserve, Wetland Restoration 0 Comments

Over the past month, I have tried to drop in to a number of our major wetland restoration sites in SA and Victoria, given the unusually wet spring weather which has given most of these sites a real boost heading in to a later-than-usual summer...

Past editions of the NGT monthly email newsletter

Posted on 25 May 2022 at 21:38h 0 Comments

Dig through the archives… you can click on the image or hyperlinked text below to see each edition of the monthly NGT newsletter as it appears when we mail out the newsletter to our subscribers. These are listed in reverse chronological order, back to the...

Tackling Common Reed infestation of a Fleurieu Peninsula Swamp at Yundi Nature Conservancy

Posted on 22 Jul 2021 at 10:03h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps 1 Comment

The invasion and displacement of more diverse wetland vegetation by Phragmites australis (common reed) is an issue affecting many Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, including some of the most intact examples such as Glenshera Swamp. Phragmites is a native wetland plant with a cosmopolitan distribution (native to...

Sharing the “blue-print” for restoring Fleurieu Peninsula swamps

Posted on 22 Jul 2021 at 10:02h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News 1 Comment

Now that many of us are temporarily stuck at home again, it feels to me like a lifetime ago – but just a few weeks back, I managed to check in on one of my favourite places on the Fleurieu Peninsula – Glenshera Swamp. This...

The mysterious case of the disappearing sandbag structures…

Posted on 19 Mar 2020 at 17:30h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News 0 Comments

Glenshera Swamp, the largest and most intact example of the critically endangered Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps ecological community, has been the focus of NGT hydrological restoration for over three years now. In April 2017 we back-filled several old drains that had been cut through the peat...

Still out and about … Mark talking wetlands in Winton, and forgotten fauna in Newham

Posted on 29 Aug 2019 at 14:21h in News, Threatened mainland fauna, Wetland Restoration 2 Comments

After taking a bit of much needed time to catch up on a number of things away from NGT, I’ll finally be properly back on deck in a couple of weeks, just in time to see our wetlands bursting into life this spring! During my...

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...

Fleurieu Swamps update: SwampFest 2018 a big success

Posted on 09 Jun 2018 at 00:57h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News 0 Comments

Last weekend, NGT’s Ben Taylor and Tessa Roberts joined and enthusiastic bunch of volunteer tree-planters in Stipiturus Conservation Park on the Fleurieu Peninsula, SA. The popular community planting event, known as ‘SwampFest’, is held annually in the park to help re-vegetate historically cleared areas, and...

Search