We are back out on the Tyrendarra flora reserve with Robin Adair controlling Italian Buckthorn.This introduced exotic plant is playing havoc in the reserve, and as Robin points out in this episode, managing takes some integrated solutions – he

Reinstating the forgotten woodlands

Oct 27th, 2022 21m 10s

On a drizzly windy spring day, we found members of the Friends of the Forgotten Woodland on a roadside, planting banksia, sheoak and sweet bursaria plants. They were establishing a new seed orchard to ensure the remnant native vegetation will a

The entirely unpalatable Italian Buckthorn

Jun 29th, 2022 13m 48s

Italian Buckthorn - the woody weed with tasty red berries is beginning to encroach on our landscape. In this episode, Glenelg Hopkins CMA's Tania Parker is our in the field with expert Robin Adair and his offsider Kym, discussing how to control

Tossing golf balls into grasslands with ARI

Jan 18th, 2022 22m 18s

In this episode we are out in the grasslands tossing golf balls into quadrats with researchers from the Arthur Rylah Institute.Brad Farmilo loves talking grassland ecology, and he’s passionate about the projects being undertaken not just ticki

Don Rowe - winning trophies for treeplanting

Nov 26th, 2021 14m 49s

In this episode we meet Victorian Landcare Awards Australian Government Individual Landcarer Award winner Don Rowe, from Maroona.This award acknowledges the significant contribution made by an individual who has demonstrated outstanding l

Searching for the Bittern

Nov 23rd, 2021 15m 51s

In this Pondcast we are talking all about bitterns. We talk to project manager Jacinta – who explains the project behind finding the elusive Australasian Bitterns. These shy, long-necked birds who sway with the rushes, fly south for the winter

Discover Discovery Bay

Aug 18th, 2021 15m 27s

Find out why the coastal area of south-west Victoria is so internationally important, not just for its geologically significant wetlands, but also for the role it plays as a round-the-world holiday destination for a group of birds from Siberia.

Restoring the grasslands

Apr 19th, 2021 23m 11s

Native grasslands on roadsides are often driven past without a second thought, but a passionate group of people are taking an active role in restoring these endangered plant communities and having great success balancing the ecological, communi

What's soil got to do with it?

Mar 11th, 2021 14m 43s

Soil used to be seen as the enemy in natural resource management (NRM), and there was once a great divide between the farming community and those authorities who sought to improve the environment. But things have changed - and now agriculture a

Why native fish need ladders and hotels in our waterways

Feb 24th, 2021 13m 55s

We met the dynamic duo getting stuff done along the waterways of the Glenelg Hopkins CMA region – Steve and Alex. These two are responsible for putting things IN the river, like fish hotels and ladders, delivering environmental flows along the

Turning back the tide

Feb 24th, 2021 20m 10s

Meet Jarred, the man with the job of trying to manage the competing needs of our environment where the river meets the sea. Managing coastal estuaries with the competing needs of the environment and the community can be tricky, but he also get

Volcanic plains and lonely flowers

Feb 24th, 2021 12m 8s

We sit down with Aggie and Ben, the Glenelg Hopkins CMAs natural resource management planners in the Biodiversity team who are charged with protecting an area known as the VVP. We learn how locking up and leaving native grasslands is the worst

What is a CMA anyway?

Feb 24th, 2021 13m 46s

The Glenelg Hopkins CMA protects and enhances the land, water and biodiversity across about 26,000ha of Victoria's south-west. But, does anyone really know what GHCMA stands for? In this episode, we meet Adam Bester, the CEO of the Glenelg Hopk

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