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Otway Conservation Association Inc.

Locality: Apollo Bay, Victoria

Phone: +61 428 615 407

Address: POBox 204 3233 Apollo Bay, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 Wetlands are carbon sinks too, of course !

24.01.2022 Honouring those who stand for the trees not highways

24.01.2022 Heres how a rare, unknown lily gives back to the Otway rainforest in a big way.

20.01.2022 Inspiring Author, locally sourced and cooked community meal and local panel talking about how towns/individuals come be more resiliant, sounds good right? The Permaculture group is excited to host David Holmgren on Sunday 22nd March to talk about his new book: Retro Suburbia: the downshifters guide to a resilient future. Tickets are great value at $15 each. At this event, Holmgren will advance permaculture concepts and practical ideas as a framework for applying retrofits to... our homes, gardens and, most fundamentally, our behaviours. Holmgren will highlight the vital importance of household food growing and shared neighborhood activity in our everyday lives. Time: 4:30pm Where: Apollo Bay Community Centre Organised by: Otways & Coast Permaculture Group Tickets: $15, Buy online at https://events.humanitix.com.au/retrosuburbia or in person at the Southern Otway Food Coop on Tuesdays in Apollo Bay.

20.01.2022 No no no to Forests for biofuels

19.01.2022 CLOSED LOOP COMPOST SYSTEM Pick My Project update Wow its all happening! Our first payment has been received and things are on the move.... Permit has been approved and Mark Feastherston is ready to pour the slab when weather improves. Shed is ordered and paid for! Powercor has sent document to be signed for 3 phase power to be connected. Closed Loop unit is ordered. We are getting excited and getting down to the fine tuning of the running of the project. Many thanks to Graham Costin & Brian Humphries for their help and advice. Shelly, Margie and Ngaira

17.01.2022 Remember how we stopped clearfelling of the Otways getting an expanded national park We are Rebel wisdom seekers as for this post

17.01.2022 Compare the pair!? The lungs of our common home. On the top the Amazon in flames. On the bottom the most carbon dense forests in the world, Victorias Mountain ...Ash forest. Slashed and burnt for Reflex copy paper by @DanielAndrewsMP #amazon #endnativeforestlogging @ChrisPauciflora and Nat geo See more

15.01.2022 Shocking and amazing

14.01.2022 Dear Colac Lets look at it from a bats perspective As you are aware the Operations Manager Frank Castles has informed me that the Colac Botanic Gardens Grey-hea...ded flying foxes are to be dispersed and an Eco-sure Management Plan implemented to prevent the bats from roosting in the Gardens in future. I have indicated our unhappiness with this decision and am aware that several thousand female flying foxes will soon arrive at the CBG to give birth and raise their young. There is nowhere else from them to roost as the Colac region is almost entirely denuded of trees and those that exist outside the Gardens are few and juvenile. COLAC: DONT KILL OUR BABY BATS! Please support Colacs Grey-headed flying fox camp in the Colac Botanic Gardens (CBG). Suggestions to include in correspondence: 1. The Grey-headed flying fox is listed as Vulnerable to Extinction under Federal and Victorian state legislation. They need our help not eviction! 2. Colac is devoid of alternative roosting habitat leaving the Gardens as the only place they can safely roost and raise young over summer. 3. If prevented from roosting, unmolested, in the cool of the CBG many, thousands, will die of heat stress over summer this is not acceptable 4. They are colony species and must roost together South Western Victoria is part of their established range 5. Grey headed flying fox numbers have declined by over 95% since 1900 6. The Chinese Pagoda Heritage Tree could have a sprayer in it while leaving all other trees for the bats to roost in 7. Several thousand female flying foxes will soon arrive in the CBG to birth and raise their dependent young for up to five months. 8. Indigenous Australia also counts as Heritage so stop harassing Australias bats! 9. The Grey headed flying fox trends south in summer and north in winter these patterns will continue. 10. Use dispersal money to undertake large-scale revegetation along the Western side of Lake Colac 11. Use dispersal money to install good interpretive signage in the CBG 12. Use dispersal money to conduct a broad public education campaign rather than a self-serving anti-indigenous bats pogrom 13. Celebrate the role the CBG is playing in the preservation of a keystone pollinating species for the benefit of Australias national garden 14. Local government is leading elsewhere in Victoria and NSW it is time Colac did its bit to embrace indigenous Australian wildlife 15. NOTE the stark difference between Colac Otway Shire and the Bayside City Council and the City of Yarra! The latter are 21st Century celebrations of Australia and the former a fearful and faintly ridiculous attempt to keep its Garden a frozen slice of the 19th Century. Please Phone / SMS or write / email your Leave the Bats Alone! support to the following persons: Colac Otway Shire PO Box 283, Colac, Victoria 3250 [email protected] Operations Manager Flying fox Relocation: [email protected] mob.0418 523 969 Colac Otway Shire: CEO Peter Brown [email protected] Parks & Gardens Tony McGann [email protected] Colac Otway Shire Mayor Jason Schram Phone: (03) 5232 9405 Mobile: 0428 326 410 Email: [email protected] Deputy Mayor Joe McCracken (Friends of the Gardens Representative on Council) Phone: (03) 5232 9409 Mobile: 0427 749 918 Email: [email protected] Flying fox Dispersal permit issued by Colac Delwp : [email protected] Any expression of support for the bats are better than nothing. Its ok to tell them how angry or upset you feel! Action is the only thing that will help our bats in Colac. Thank you! Best Lawrence Pope Coordinator : Victorian Advocates for Animals President : FOBB Friends of Bats and Bushcare Inc. PO Box 377 North Carlton Victoria 3054 [email protected] ph. 0416 228 696

14.01.2022 Let Dan Andrews know you care

13.01.2022 This is a good summary of seismic testing and what's happening in our Otway basin Thanks Lisa #otwayclimatechange

12.01.2022 This is disgusting

12.01.2022 PICK MY PRODUCT - CLOSED LOOP UPDATE The shed is up and we are getting excited! Unfortunately the manufacture of our machine has been held up and wont be delivered untill February . We are disappointed as we were hoping to be able to process food waste this Christmas.... But not to worry, we still have plenty to do, fit out shed and concrete the driveway. We will be visiting businesses in the near future to discuss the operation of the composter and how you can become involved in the use of this facility.

12.01.2022 This is disgraceful why arent the loggers in lockdown like everyone else is supposed to be ?

10.01.2022 https://youtu.be/zCoqCO6YJq8 Logging Causes Bushfires

10.01.2022 BREAKING: FOREST BLOCKADE ESTABLISHED THIS MORNING IN TOOLANGI Forest Conservation Victoria have set up a peaceful protest to stop logging operations within vit...al threatened species habitat and old growth forest along the Murrindindi River in Toolangi this morning, where a threatened Sooty Owl nesting site has been reported. A person is currently suspended 20 meters up a tree on a platform attached to logging machinery, protecting the area from being cleared for paper. Continued destruction of some of the worlds largest carbon stores, the Mountain Ash forests of Victoria, has left these ecosystems on the brink of collapse. With the city of Melbourne having just declared a climate and biodiversity emergency and Threatened Species Day this coming Saturday, its absurd that these logging practices are continuing with business as usual. Our government is dragging its feet on turning its words into action and were losing time we just cant afford. We will continue to stand up against these practices until we see an end to native forest logging.

10.01.2022 Some great events coming up in our region you may be interested in! Barwon South West Waste and Resource Recovery Group is partnering in three upcoming events in Geelong. Reducing Waste in hospitality businesses, 12 August https://gsbf.com.au//reducing-waste-in-hospitality-busine/... Regional Innovation for a Circular Economy, 26 August https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/regional-innovation-for-a-c Victorian Waste Education Conference, 15 & 16 October: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/victorian-waste-education-c

10.01.2022 These ancient trees threatened by Blue Mountain fires

09.01.2022 End logging now, science is there Logging Causes Bushfires

09.01.2022 This is disgraceful why aren't the loggers in lockdown like everyone else is supposed to be ?

09.01.2022 Sand art in France by Jben beach art - Thank you Jben for your wonderful art ! Australia thanks you.

08.01.2022 Register now for this webinar tonight 7pm on forests with Professor David Lindenmayer

08.01.2022 Such a backward step for Victorian Government

07.01.2022 When her job depended on it Henderson campaigned against fracking but now as senator, her true colors come out.

07.01.2022 This is a good summary of seismic testing and whats happening in our Otway basin Thanks Lisa #otwayclimatechange

07.01.2022 Excellent forum about uniqueness of South Gippsland Strezlecki Koala compared to Otway koalas and how threatened it is by loss of habitat-fire, logging, human development

07.01.2022 Pick My Project **Closed Loop Compost System Update** We have had some nice weather which has allowed for the ground to dry. This means the cement slab has been laid. Soon Westvic Sheds will be here installing the shed for our compost machine. Pick My Project Transition Apollo Bay... Barwon South West Waste & Resource Recovery Group See more

06.01.2022 This is a good simple explanation

06.01.2022 Scott Morrison (ScoMo) and Dan Andrews have a struck a deal bypassing federal environmental laws that will allow logging in native forests that survived the Sum...mer Fires. READ MORE>>https://www.foe.org.au/vic_rfa_10years DONATE to support Friends of the Earth member group Goongerah Environment Centre GECO>> geco.org.au/donate

04.01.2022 Excellent news to get Barwon Water to Stop pumping from Barwon Downs Aquifer, after 40 years

02.01.2022 Apollo Bay you are in for a Treat, David Holmgren is coming to Apollo Bay on 22nd March to talk about his most recent book Retrosuburbia. I love this book. Retrosuberbia includes ideas, methods, designs and patterns for downshifting to a life filled with more community, more food, less carbon, less waste, and more possibilites. The solutions can be adopted into your daily life without to much fuss or stress! This book is enormously optimistic and positive about our future whi...ch is refreshing to read. You cant help but to feel excited and energetic as your turn the pages. I hope you can join us on March 22nd. Tickets available now at https://events.humanitix.com.au/retrosuburbia Hosted by Otways & Coast Permaculture Group To learn more about the book go to Davids webpage. https://holmgren.com.au/

01.01.2022 George Monbiot article says it so well Beware those Pollutocrats

01.01.2022 For the second week in a row logging has been halted in Murrundindi near Kinglake as locals say #notbusinessasusual and try and protect the last refuges of fore...st that have not been logged or burned in fires. Dan Andrews Lily DAmbrosio MP Jaclyn Symes logging during a #climateemergency is criminal. Australia has some of the most carbon dense forests in the world. They must be protected now. #forestsforcarbon