You can help to protect the health of our marine ecosystem this Easter simply by selecting sustainable seafood for your holiday feasts. This week fishmongers will be hard at work to meet the demands of the many Australians who choose to eat seafood in honour of the popular Good Friday tradition. Marine Campaigns Officer Tooni [...]
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Think Sustainable Seafood this Easter
Posted in Climate change, Coast, Coastal biodiversity, Uncategorized, tagged Australia's Sustainable Seafood Guide, Australian Marine Conservation Society, biodiversity, Climate change, coast, environmental weeds, fish stocks, fisheries, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, marine ecosystem, seafood, sustainable, sustainable seafood on May 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Surf Coast’s Hidden Wonderland
Posted in Climate change, Coast, Coastal biodiversity, Volunteers, tagged Anglesea, beach, biodiversity, bottlenose dolphins, Climate change, coast, Great Ocean Road, Great Victorian Fish Count, habitat, healthy coast, humback whales, Lorne, marine life, Museum Victoria, reef, reef fish, Reef Watch, sea, sea sweep, senator wrasse, sharks, Six-spined leatherjackets, southern right whales, volunteers on March 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Most of us are familiar with the local birds who frequent our gardens and we can probably put a name to those visitor’s who fly in during summer and leave before winter begins. Well the story is the same in the sea. Living amongst the soft sponge gardens, seagrass meadows or swaying algal forests is [...]
An Underwater World In Decline
Posted in Climate change, Coast, Coastal biodiversity, Community, GORCC, Managing the coast, Uncategorized, Volunteers, tagged Australia, biodiversity, brown algae, carbon footprint, Climate change, coast, community, cool water, El Nino Southern Oscillation, ENSO, erosion, giant kelp, GORCC, Great Ocean Road, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, kelp, macrocystis, protecting the coast, rocky reefs, Surf Coast, temperate reef, volunteers on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Imagine you are in a forest and life is teeming around you. The forest canopy stretches metres above and as you look up into the filtered sunlight a myriad of lifeforms can be seen living in their sheltered forest home. No, it’s not a tropical rainforest; it’s an underwater world of Giant Kelps (Macrocystis). The [...]
Protein Science Conference Gets Behind Foreshore Rehabilitation
Posted in Climate change, Coastal biodiversity, GORCC, Managing the coast, Uncategorized, Volunteers, Weeds and native vegetation, tagged beach, Climate change, coast, committee of management, community, conservation, education, environmental weeds, Erskine River, funding, GORCC, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, indigenous plants, Junior Landcare Victorian Youth Environment Conference, Lorne, Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, native vegetation, projects, protecting the coast, revegetation, volunteers, weeds on January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
North Lorne is returned to its former glory thanks to Protein Society support. The mouth of the Erskine River on the Lorne Foreshore has been revitalized by the Great Ocean Road Coast Committee (GORCC) thanks to financial support received from the annual Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function. The conference runs over five days [...]
Emerging thoughts on tackling climate change
Posted in Climate change, GORCC, tagged Climate change, coast, collaboration, community, educatio, forum, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, greenhouse gas emissions, healthy coast, protecting the coast on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The recent Shell EcoVolunteers Geelong Climate Change Forum run by Conservation Volunteers Australia opened with a message for us all. David Tournier of the Wathaurong Community welcomed the attendees with the words “I have been involved in land care since birth” – a sobering thought for a group of people meeting to discuss environmental challenges [...]
Ocean’s waves to power up our future?
Posted in Climate change, tagged Climate change, coast, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, greenhouse gas emissions, Lorne, protecting the coast, renewable energy, sustainable energy, wave power on August 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is no secret that those of us who love the coast are concerned about the potential impacts of climate change on its precious natural environment. Many of us are already doing what we can to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by living more sustainably. Some have already gone even further by switching to alternative energy sources, such as wind and solar, which are sustainable and renewable. We recognise that it is in our long-term interests to reduce our reliance on oil, coal and other non-renewable energy sources. Consequently, the committee was delighted to announce this week that it was supporting a proposal to trial a new technology, which offers the potential to harness the power generated by waves to produce electricity and desalinated water. The trial, which will take place at Lorne Pier between September and November, provides an opportunity to take the prototype to the next stage by testing it in a real-life environment. Lorne residents and others interested in finding out more are invited to an information session tomorrow, Saturday 14 August 2010, from 3pm to 5pm at the Lorne Aquatic and Angling Club, near the pier. We hope to see you there!
Let’s work together to protect coastal biodiversity
Posted in Coastal biodiversity, Uncategorized, tagged Climate change, coast, erosion, GORCC, Great Ocean Road, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, healthy coast, litter, protecting the coast, volunteers, weeds on May 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity this Saturday, 22 May, aims to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues across the globe. On a more local level, GORCC, local coastal volunteer groups and many others have for some time been working hard to raise awareness of the need for everyone to do their bit to protect our coast’s precious biodiversity from threats such as weeds, litter, erosion, pest animals, climate change, fire, development, dog poo, etc. Download our latest webclip to find out more.
Beauty and the Beast: Managing the Coast Along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road
Posted in Managing the coast, tagged caravan parks, Climate change, collaboration, Crown land, erosion, GORCC, Great Ocean Road, Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, litter, recreation, sustainable coast, tourism, volunteers, weeds on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The coast is what inspires and motivates the Great Ocean Road Coast Committee. There is nothing like a quiet day in the office managing the beauty and the beast of the coastline along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. It requires a mix of skill, courage, patience and a thick skin. There are plenty of challenging issues like summer visitor numbers, growing populations, dogs on beaches, infrastructure upgrades and commercial activities in a time and place of climate (and community) change. Collaboration across boundaries with community groups, government agencies, other land managers and the general public is critical to success, but often easy to say and hard to achieve. We all have to do more to achieve a sustainable coast and community.
We need to change the climate to help our coast
Posted in Climate change, tagged Climate change, coastal industries, Great Ocean Road, greenhouse gas emissions, healthy coast, investment, protecting the coast, sea level rise, tourism, Victorian Coastal Strategy on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We love the coast. It looms large in our collective psyche as a place where we live, work and play. Also looming large is the risk of climate change significantly impacting on all the things we love about our coast. Given this risk and the coast’s importance in our lives on both an individual and a broader economic level, it is essential that new and ongoing investment focuses on protecting the coast. And importantly, we all need to do our bit to reduce the risk of climate change.
