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Good food, wonderful people and sharing great results! Recapping the Fleurieu Swamps Field Day in SA
Posted on 29 May 2023 at 15:10h
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On Saturday the 20th of May, we gathered with a group of swamp people… no not the scary kind! Wonderful people keen to learn more about the restoration of one of our critically endangered wetland ecosystems, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps. The aim was to showcase the...
Peatland restoration update: First glimpse of the latest works to rehydrate Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps
Posted on 30 Apr 2023 at 20:10h
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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!
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
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
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
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
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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...