Clean Up Australia Day – tackling the unnatural disaster
Congratulations to Ian Kiernan on the 20th ‘Clean Up Australia Day’, with 7,084 sites registered in 2010. Congratulations also to Carmel Wallace for her stunning works (exhibited at 101 Collins Street, Melbourne) made from litter collected from the beach at Discovery Bay. During the 2008-09 year, the Victorian EPA issued 19,465 litter infringement notices, around [...]
Mystery mollusc at Point Lonsdale
January 23, 2010 by BayKeeper
Filed under Action, Featured, Wild Things
Special thanks to all the kids, parents and others who took part in the Baykeeper shoreline shell surveys in January 2010. True to form, every beach was different, highlighting the wonderful diversity of species that live in the Bay. Each survey is a journey of investigation and learning, sometimes into the unknown! This mollusc (about [...]
Cigarette butts bad news for the Bay
Cigarettes have been marketed as glamorous for the girls and macho for blokes…. anyone happy to set something in their mouth on fire has got to be a ‘cool and can-do’ type! Unfortunately, due to choices many of these people make, hundreds of thousands of cigarette butts enter the Bay each year via stormwater drains; [...]
