A fresh approach to ciggie litter
Cigarette butts accounted for 37% of litter items removed from City of Port Phillip beaches on Clean Up Australia Day 2011 by the Port Phillip Clean Beaches Coalition. Apart from the fact that ciggie filters don’t biodegrade and are laced with a range of toxic substances, these little suckers are so small they scoot straight [...]
Sand flathead & mud ghost shrimp – why have they gone?
Populations of sand flathead (once considered the most common fish in the Bay) and mud ghost shrimp (once the most common benthic organism in the Bay) both declined dramatically between the 1970s and 1990s. Although a study is underway to investigate if overfishing caused the flathead decline, there appears to have been no attempt to [...]
To Bay or not to Bay?
Ever wonder how we lived without all those computer games we so happily give time to? Of course not….. silly me!!! Once you’re in the fast lane any pause for reflection is strictly for losers! Does it matter that most games are about who goes fastest or can beat the most crap out of the [...]
