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Welcome to NGT Newsletter #21
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If you haven't taken up the opportunity to share your knowledge of the swamps of the Tookayerta Catchment with us yet, then now is your chance! In April, we'll be sharing what we've learned so far and giving you another chance to have a say before we...
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It is hard to believe, but it has been 12 months since we completed the restoration options report for Glenshera Swamp, in Stipiturus Conservation Park, and if all goes to plan then the first steps towards improving the hydrology of this important wetland will hopefully get...
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Before and after view of the proposal for restoring surface flows back into Glenshera Swamp, Stipiturus CP.
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During a recent visit to Stipiturus CP to plan upcoming proposed restoration works, we came across a small group of flowering Spiranthes australia - one of our more spectacular native orchids. This is just one of many important species that rely on our threatened swampy habitats that...
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The December blog post about the forgotten fauna of the Fleurieu Peninsula stimulated some great feedback from some of our newsletter subscribers with an interest in ecological change and the value of historical accounts for aiding our modern understanding of the environment. For example, Graham Carpenter kindly shared...
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A huge thankyou to everyone who came out to Mount Burr Swamp on Tuesday 14 March 2017 for the launch of the Wetland Condition Field Guide, by Troy Horn and Bryan Haywood. The guide has been five years in the making and fills a gap in rapid wetland assessment...
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When it comes to any wetland, a lot can happen in 12 months - as we discovered with so many our swamps across the region with the recent wet spring. But at Mt Burr Swamp, our restoration structure installed 7 months ago has had a particularly...
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An oasis of green in an otherwise dry landscape – the bed of water ribbons in Mt Burr Swamp in March 2017
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A few weeks ago, with my trusty assistant Dale by my side, we went for a late night frog search at Mt Burr Swamp. After months of occasional reports of calling on site, it was time to see once and for all just how many Growling Grass Frogs...
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A Growling Grass Frog (aka Southern Bell Frog or Litoria raniformis) photographed at Mt Burr Swamp. Photo by Mark Bachmann
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At the beginning of March, a hardy bunch of NGT staff loaded the utes with trapping equipment, spades and picks, eskies and unheard of quantities of oats and peanut butter (for bait, of course!) and made our way up to the Wimmera to conduct a...
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Bougainville’s skink - recorded during the recent survey in the Wimmera
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The Autumn 2017 Edition of From the Ground Up has just hit regional Post Office boxes, and it features a couple of updates from NGT. First up (from page 7) is news about some great assistance we've had up at Eaglehawk Waterhole from the Tatiara Green...
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The second NGT update in the latest edition of From the Ground Up (on page 8), gives a snapshot of the varied role of NGT's Community Nursery - from experimental propagation and revegetation techniques, to producing plants that help bolster populations of some of our...
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