Archive for February, 2010

Totally Wild Episode

The H.E.L.P girls recently spent a day with Parks Victoria Ranger Jo Antrobus and Healesville Sanctuary Threatened Species Keeper Paula Watson. They were filming an episode of the popular Channel 7 wildlife program Totally Wild in the Yellingbo State Faunal Conservation Reserve.  

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Special deal for special possums

By Tania Martin 2nd June 2009 FOUR hills friends are again doing their bit to make a difference. Twins Ellie and Mollie Travica of Emerald, Kallista’s Elly Robertson and Emma Falconberg, of Berwick, are helping to save the endangered Leadbeater’s possum. But they are not strangers to campaigning for worthy causes. Last October the girls [...]

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It’s mission possum

BERWICK AND PACKENHAM DISTRICT JOURNAL A DWINDLING population of Leadbeater’s possums has prompted a group of Beaconhills College students to lend a helping hand. The 12- and 13-year-old girls from Beaconhills’ Village Campus in Berwick formed HELP – Helping Endangered Leadbeater’s Possums – to rejuvenate the possum’s natural habitat and to raise awareness of its [...]

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Hello possums, help’s on the way

Pakenham Gazette and Berwick Gazette; Star News Group FOUR Beaconhills College students are heading overseas to promote their campaign to save Victoria’s endangered animal emblem, the Leadbeater’s Possum. Emerald twins Ellie and Mollie Travica, Kallista’s Elly Robertson and Emma Falkenberg, of Berwick, were recently named grand champions in the 2009 Macquarie Bank Future Problem Solving [...]

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Positive possum tale in the hills

FREE PRESS LEADER ARTICLE A GROUP of hills teenagers are taking their fight to save the leadbeater’s possum global. Kallista’s Elly Robertson, Berwick’s Emma Falkenberg, and Emerald’s Ellie and Mollie Travica, have formed a group called HELP – Helping the Endangered Leadbeater’s Possum. The group has spent the past couple of months campaigning and raising [...]

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