Nature Foundation needs your help improve habitat conditions to restore and protect Mongolurring Nature Reserve. Initial assessments by our Science and Knowledge team have identified priority management tasks that will enable critical conservation benefits for the nature reserve.

We are pleased to share our summer edition of Nature Matters with you.

It’s a bumper issue, with updates from across our reserves, the team, recent events and more. 

On the Mount St. Mungo nature drive that takes in the north-east section of Hiltaba, the track passes Trump Dam — named after a racehorse, “The Trump”, 1937 winner of the rare Caulfield Cup/Melbourne Cup double. Lying beside the track just past the dam were the disintegrating remains of an early 1900’s horse-drawn wagon, abandoned where it was last used decades ago.

Our conservation efforts with the endangered Pygmy Bluetongue Lizard were recently in the news, with InDaily and ABC Regional Drive sharing updates about our recent Pygmy Bluetongue Lizard crawl and surveys at Tiliqua Nature Reserve and another location with a Pygmy Bluetongue population near Burra.

Since 2018, we've been conducting targeted annual fish surveys to monitor the fish community's status and provide a temporal and spatial comparison of fish abundance within Watchalunga Nature Reserve. The recent 2024 spring survey, conducted by Nature Glenelg Trust for our Science and Knowledge team with the support of Nature Foundation volunteers, revealed some intriguing and promising results following the 2022/2023 floods.