4 results for month: 10/2011
Grants to help protect species across Casey and Cardinia
25 Oct 11 @ 07:00am by Gilbert Gardiner http://cranbourne-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/grants-to-help-protect-species-across-casey-and-cardinia/ A LEADING conservation authority has stepped up its campaign to protect endangered flora and fauna species across Casey and Cardinia. Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority is distributing $65,000 in grants to help landowners build fences to control pest plants and animals, and revegetate private properties. The grants form part of a three-year $1.9 million program to protect 390ha of habitat for southern brown bandicoots, leadbeater’s possums and helmeted honeyeate...
Kallista teen fights for possums
18 Oct 11 @ 07:00am by Alex Munro http://free-press-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/kallista-teen-fights-for-possums/ A KALLISTA teenager is leading a campaign to save the endangered Leadbeater’s possum. Elly Robertson, 14, is one of three teenagers from the eastern suburbs that make up the Help the Endangered Leadbeater’s Possum group. “We try to help in every respect we can, whether it’s habitat regeneration, attending to feeding stations at Lake Mountain, or raising awareness,” said Elly, who founded the group after learning how Black Saturday had decimated the species. Elly said it was sometimes difficult balancing the ...
Toolangi forest logging halted until 2012
19 Sep 11 @ 04:06pm by Emily Webb
http://lilydale-yarra-valley-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/toolangi-forest-logging-halted-until-2012/ A HALT on logging in a Toolangi forest has been extended until February, 2012. The Supreme Court today extended the injunction to stop logging in Sylvia Creek forest near Toolangi after VicForests agreed to the moratorium.
Healesville-based conservation group My Environment Inc has challenged the legality of VicForests logging operation on the grounds that the area is habitat for the endangered Leadbeater’s possum.
The full court hearing is now scheduled for February 6, 2012.
Court extends Sylvia Creek logging injunction
Updated September 19, 2011 12:41:55
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-19/court-extends-sylvia-creek-logging-injunction/2905978 The Victorian Supreme Court has extended a ban on logging at a contentious site north-east of Melbourne until next year. Environmentalists took the government's forestry arm, VicForests, to court last month over its timber operations at Sylvia Creek, near Toolangi. They argue the site is home to the threatened Leadbeaters possum. The court this morning extended an injunction blocking logging until next February, when it will revisit the matter. David Walsh of VicForests says the group is complying with current legislat...