Surveys show – it’s raining butts!
Cigarette butts accounted for 37% of litter items removed from City of Port Phillip beaches on Clean Up Australia Day 2011. In search of a positive solution, Baykeeper has teamed with Ormond College (Melbourne Uni) students and the City of Port Phillip’s Community Pulse program to better understand where and why butts are dropped. During [...]
More toxic mud to be dumped in the bay
Over the past 70 years millions of tonnes of contaminated mud have been dredged from the Port of Melbourne and dumped in Port Phillip Bay. Meanwhile, the sand flathead population has declined 80% since the 1960s and we don’t know why. The Port of Melbourne Corporation is currently seeking Commonwealth and state government approvals to [...]
Stray sea lion lobs in Brighton
September 30, 2011 by BayKeeper
Filed under Featured, Wild Things
You don’t expect to see a sea lion in Port Phillip Bay these days, let alone crossing Beach Road in Brighton. But this curious critter turned up in a Brighton back yard in mid September! Reports from early European explorers and bones found in aboriginal middens indicate sea lions once lived in Bass Strait. But [...]
