MOONLIT Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Park has won the Premier’s Sustainability Award for Environmental Protection 2017 for its orange-bellied parrot Breeding for Recovery program. Park director and founder Michael Johnson said he was “thrilled and honoured to win”. He said the sanctuary, in Tyabb-Tooradin Rd, Pearcedale, would continue to breed the parrots “until there is a viable wild population again saved from extinction”. “We have committed to run our program for at least the next 10 years,” he said. The first release of three birds from Moonlit Sanctuary and five from Zoos Victoria was held on Tuesday 24 October and two…
Day: October 31, 2017
UNITED Terminals Pty Ltd has been fined almost $16,000 for two breaches of the Environment Protection Act over a diesel spill at its Barclay Cr, Hastings, site that flowed into nearby Oliver’s Creek. The company notified the EPA of a fuel spill of up to 1000 litres on Monday 31 July, saying that the leak, from a damaged pipeline flange, had been stopped. EPA officers attended and found that a significant volume of lost fuel was captured by interceptor drains and a trap onsite, but a small unknown volume was lost into the creek. The officers saw that a clean-up…
THREE youth forums to be held over the next six months will ask peninsula young people what they think needs to be done to combat issues such as anxiety, depression, bullying, suicide, family violence and body image. The aim is to give young people a say in creating the solutions many think are desperately needed. The forums are being held by not-for-profit group Youth Out Loud, which has been running resilience and leadership programs in schools in Australia, South East Asia and Africa for 25 years. Youth Out Loud founder Steve Brunskill says the best chance of success is to…
ALTHOUGH seriously injured, with abdominal and back injuries and being treated at Royal Melbourne Hospital last week, a Crib Point woman was still able to respond to her critics on social media. Rhiiannon Hewitt, 21, was considered lucky to be alive after being ejected from her car when it struck a Stony Point Rd power pole at about 60kph – snapping it into pieces – 9am, Tuesday 24 October. Her Holden Commodore, which rolled in the collision, looked to be a write off. Countering criticism she should have been wearing a seatbelt, Ms Hewitt replied: “It was a mistake not…
THERE are concerns the proposed Hastings Foreshore Precinct Plan will bring an end to Hastings Yacht Club’s 15-year-old Sailability program and “even threaten the future of the club as a whole”. Secretary Martin Jones said the club had “invested a lot of time and money into making our facility accessible to sailors of all abilities, including our junior program that is open to the Hastings community, and our Sailability program, which is the only one on the eastern side of the Peninsula. “Unlike other Sailability programs in Victoria and around the country, ours is a free service.” Mr Jones said…