Students, corporate and environmental volunteers and land management agencies joined forces recently in a bid eradicate two of the worst weeds on the coast. Year nine and 10 students from Lorne-Aireys Inlet P-12 and ANZ bank staff were amongst the group volunteers keen to protect Lorne’s iconic Queens Park. Queens Park is 25 hectares of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘birds’
Queens Park blitz a group effort
Posted in Birds, Coast, Coastal biodiversity, Community, Community, Conservation, Endangered animals, Environment, Environmental Education, Erosion, Fauna, Flora, Forum for Coastal Volunteers, GORCC, Indigenous plants, Infestation, Managing the coast, Native wildlife, students, Uncategorized, Volunteers, Weeds and native vegetation, tagged healthy coast, protecting the coast, GORCC, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, weeds, volunteers, collaboration, blog, birds, native vegetation, biodiversity, education, conservation, Coast Action/Coastcare, community, projects, environment, flora, fauna, environmental weeds on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
New direction for conservation
Posted in Beaches, Birds, Cat Curfew, Coast, Coastal biodiversity, Community, Community, Conservation, Endangered animals, Environment, Environmental Education, Fauna, Feral cats, Flora, Forum for Coastal Volunteers, Foxes, GORCC, Indigenous plants, Managing the coast, Native wildlife, The way forward?, Uncategorized, Volunteers, Weeds and native vegetation, tagged biodiversity, birds, blog, coast, collaboration, communication and engagement, community, conservation, education, environment, environmental weeds, fauna, flora, forum, GORCC, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, healthy coast, native vegetation, passion, projects, protecting the coast, volunteers, weeds on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Otway Community Conservation Group recently held a workshop to address future directions and potential projects for the management, protection and enhancement of biodiversity in the Otway region. OCCN facilitator Luke Hynes was encouraged by the outcomes of the workshop and feedback given by all representatives. “Suggested project areas included further networking between groups, improving [...]
Don’t be a butt with your cigarette!
Posted in Beaches, Birds, Clean up Australia Day, Coast, Community, Conservation, Endangered animals, Environment, Environmental Education, Fauna, GORCC, Illegal rubbish dumping, Litter, Managing the coast, Marine debris, Marine environment, Native wildlife, Oceans, Rubbish, Schools, students, Surf Coast, Uncategorized, Volunteers, tagged beach, birds, blog, coast, community, conservation, education, environment, fauna, GORCC, Great Ocean Road, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, healthy coast, litter, protecting the coast, rubbish, Surf Coast, Torquay, tourism, volunteers on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
How many times have you sat on the beach and found yourself surrounded by cigarette butts? Cigarette butts continue to be the main source of rubbish found on our Surf Coast – a disappointing result considering the Surf Coast Shire was the first municipality to ban smoking on its beaches. In 2008, cigarette butts made up 30 per [...]
Sensors to stop stealthy predators
Posted in Beaches, Birds, Coast, Coastal biodiversity, Domestic cats, Endangered animals, Environment, Environmental Education, Foxes, Native wildlife, Uncategorized, tagged birds, coast, conservation, fauna, infrared camera, monitoring, native animls, Parks Victoria, predatory pests, Surf Coast Times on March 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Data collected by Parks Victoria using infrared camera trapping is helping keep track of threatened species and monitor the control of predators like cats and foxes. It sounds very technical but according to a recent Surf Coast Times article it’s easy, cheap and causes minimal disturbance to native wildlife. How does infrared camera trapping work? Digital cameras are [...]
Who let the cats out?
Posted in Cat Curfew, Coast, Coastal biodiversity, Community, Domestic cats, Endangered animals, Environment, Environmental Education, Fauna, Feral cats, GORCC, Native wildlife, Uncategorized, tagged biodiversity, birds, cat curfew, cats, community, conservation, domestic cats, environment, fauna, feral cats, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, native animals, pests, protecting the coast, Surf Coast, Surf Coast Shire, TCA, Torquay, Torquay Coast Action, volunteers on February 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »
They may seem like friendly members of the family but cats can be ferocious hunters and a threat to native animals. Cats on the Surf Coast are endangering native wildlife, which is why it’s so important that owners keep their pets inside at night. President of local environmental volunteer group, Friends of Point Addis Marine National Park, [...]
An update on our little ‘Hoodies’
Posted in Birds, Coast, Coastal biodiversity, Community, Endangered animals, Environment, Fauna, GORCC, Hooded Plovers, Native wildlife, Uncategorized, Volunteers, tagged Birdlife Australia, birds, collaboration, conservation, education, environment, fauna, GORCC, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, hooded plovers, Hoodies, Point Roadknight, volunteers on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Birldlife Australia volunteers and the Great Ocean Road Coast Committee (GORCC) are happy to report that the ‘Hoodie’ chicks at Point Roadknight will be ready to fledge at the end of this month. GORCC Coastal Projects Manager Mike Bodsworth said there were two remaining chicks at Point Roadknight. “The two chicks are being monitored by Birdlife Australia [...]
Rare visitors threatened by waste
Posted in Birds, Endangered animals, Environment, Estuaries, Flora, Litter, Managing the coast, Native wildlife, Volunteers, tagged birds, community, conservation, fauna, flora, GORCC, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, healthy coast, litter, rubbish, volunteers on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Rare native birds have been sighted in the Spring Creek Estuary and conservation groups are calling on the community to assist in their protection. Great Egrets and the Caspian Terns, both on the Victorian Government’s advisory list of threatened vertebrate fauna in Victoria, have recently been sighted feeding in the Spring Creek Estuary. The species [...]
Adopt a beach – help to keep our oceans clean
Posted in Managing the coast, Litter, Volunteers, Marine debris, Fauna, Community, Schools, Coast, tagged Aireys Inlet, animals, beach, birds, coast, collaboration, communication and engagement, community, conservation, debris, education, engagement, engangered species, environment, fauna, healthy coast, litter, marine, schools, volunteers on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone who cares about the health of our precious marine environments is being given the opportunity to adopt a beach by the Tangaroa Blue Ocean Care Society. Marine debris – what is it and what is its impact? Marine debris usually applies to floating waste such as: Bottles Cans Styrofoam cruise ship waste Offshore oil [...]
Protecting Our Endangered Locals
Posted in GORCC, Uncategorized, Volunteers, tagged beach, birds, blog, coast, coastal birds, endangered, extinct, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, hooded plovers, migratory, nesting, plovers, Point Addis, Point Impossible, protected species, red-capped plovers, red-necked stints, volunteers on January 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Three very special bird species are calling the Surf Coast home and need your help to survive. Birds Australia volunteers work tirelessly every year to protect and monitor endangered coastal birds, nesting along the coastline. They have the challenging task of protecting the birds from the many threats they face. Three coastal birds [...]
Interesting things that have washed up on the beach
Posted in Top 10, tagged animals, beaches, birds, coast, Fishermans Beach, Lorne, penguins, seals, sharks, shipwrecks, tides, Torquay on April 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The tide has occasionally left behind some interesting things such as a leatherback turtle, penguins and seals, a mako shark, kangaroos and shearwaters, a blue whale, a dead body and the Joseph Scammell shipwreck of 1891.
