Archive for June, 2010
Council calls for stop to native logging in Yarra Ranges
28 Jun 10 @ 07:19am by Emily Webb  http://lilydale-yarra-valley-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/council-calls-for-stop-to-native-logging-in-yarra-ranges/ YARRA Ranges Council is putting its weight behind a community push to stop native forest logging within the shire. At a packed meeting on June 23, residents from Toolangi and Healesville heard from council representatives and environmental lobby and conservation groups. Lyster ward councillor Samantha Dunn [...]
June 29, 2010
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Tags: Habitat Protection, Native Forest Campaign, Unsuitable Timber Harvesting, Victorian Forests · Posted in: Media 2010
VicForests accused of felling old-growth mountain ash
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/vicforests-accused-of-felling-oldgrowth-mountain-ash-20100628-zf5o.html ADAM MORTON – June 29, 2010 THE Victorian government’s forestry arm will face a legal challenge over claims it illegally logged old-growth forest and increased the risk to a threatened species. Environmental groups accuse VicForests of felling dozens of pre-1900 ash eucalypts, breaching the Central Highlands Forest Management Plan. An impending legal case will [...]
June 29, 2010
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Tags: Bushfire, Endangered Species, Habitat Protection, Illegal Logging, Leadbeater's Possum, Old Growth Logging, Unsuitable Timber Harvesting, Victorian Forests, Victorian Wildlife · Posted in: Media 2010
Healesville wildlife group digs deep for native wildlife
Healesville wildlife group digs deep for native wildlife 1 July 2009 Presentation of a generous donation from Judith Eardley Save Wildlife Association to aid A small Healesville based wildlife association, comprised of just ten volunteers, has made an extraordinarily generous donation to help save and protect native wildlife affected by the recent Black Saturday bushfires. [...]
June 18, 2010
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Tags: Bushfire, Endangered Species, Habitat Protection, Leadbeater's Possum, Victorian Forests, Victorian Wildlife · Posted in: Media 2009
State’s emblem nearly extinct
“The Age” – Peter Weekes August 5, 2007 THE tiny Leadbeater’s possum, Victoria’s state faunal emblem, could be extinct in a few years if its numbers continue to plummet. The population of the tiny nocturnal animal has dropped sharply since it was listed as critically endangered in 1996 – despite a decade-long joint federal and [...]
June 18, 2010
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Tags: Bushfire, Endangered Species, Leadbeater's Possum, Unsuitable Timber Harvesting, Victorian Forests, Victorian Wildlife · Posted in: Media 2007
Garrett moves to save ecosystems not specific species
Tom Arup The Age, August 18, 2009 ENVIRONMENT Minister Peter Garrett has warned that money to save endangered species is limited and he will have to make hard decisions on the fate of some species in the future. Mr Garrett told the International Congress of Ecology in Brisbane yesterday that the Government would shift its [...]
June 18, 2010
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Tags: Endangered Species · Posted in: Media 2009
Faunal Emblem Threatened: The animal victims of Black Saturday
Transcript of ABC TV Broadcast: 22/05/2009 Reporter: Kate Arnott TAMARA OUDYN, PRESENTER: When the February bushfires swept through the Central Highlands, millions of native animals were killed. Ten of Australia’s most threatened species were hit, including Victoria’s faunal emblem, the Leadbeater’s possum. The tiny marsupial is now on the brink of extinction and an urgent [...]
June 18, 2010
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Tags: Bushfire, Endangered Species, Leadbeater's Possum, Unsuitable Timber Harvesting, Victorian Forests, Victorian Wildlife · Posted in: Media 2009
Watching the bush recover after fires
Watching the bush recover after fires by Sarina Locke Canberra, ACT 19/03/2009. Just two weeks after the devastating bushfires in Victoria, green shoots of life were poking through the soil. A team of US ecologists have toured the Kinglake and Marysville forest areas to assess the ecological damage and water quality problems. With them was [...]
June 18, 2010
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Tags: Bushfire, Endangered Species, Leadbeater's Possum, Unsuitable Timber Harvesting, Victorian Forests, Victorian Wildlife · Posted in: Media 2009
Quartet give HELPing hands
http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/story/88601 FOUR young minds are taking the world by storm. The HELP (Helping Endangered Leadbeater’s Possums) team will not only present their year-long project at the International Future Problem Solving Conference in Wisconsin – they will be featured in Network Ten’s science program Scope. The team, Elly Robertson (from Kallista), Luke McConnell (Berwick) and Emerald’s [...]
June 7, 2010
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Tags: Endangered Species, Leadbeater's Possum, Revegetation, Schools Project · Posted in: Media 2010
TV goes wild for Beaconhills College teens
http://pakenham-cardinia-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/tv-goes-wild-for-beaconhills-college-teens/ SAVING an endangered marsupial has led this team to stardom. Four students from Beaconhills College appeared on Channel 10’s science program Scope last Friday as part of their Helping Endangered Leadbeater’s Possums crusade. It was their second television cameo since the group – Kallista’s Elly Robertson, Berwick’s Luke McConnell and Emerald’s Ellie and Mollie [...]
June 7, 2010
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Tags: Biodiversity, Endangered Species, Leadbeater's Possum, Revegetation, Schools Project · Posted in: Media 2010
