Animals

  • Bay’s seal of disapproval

    Tampering can lead to a broken seal. That’s the warning from authorities who want people to keep away from a seal hanging around Apollo Bay’s boat ramp.

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  • OVERPOPULATION: More koala welfare checks at Cape Otway

    WILDLIFE officers and vets have started a two-week fertility-control program and health checks on the koala population at Cape Otway.

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  • DOG DAYS: Adopted greyhound now a therapy dog

    HOW DID this rejected racing dog become a caring companion and therapy dog?

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  • Project to relocate up to 600 Cape Otway koalas

    LORNE will become the new home for up to 600 koalas translocated from Cape Otway over the next month.

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  • Dog sniffs out quoll dropping

    AN OTWAYS Conservation Dog has sniffed out a rare wild quoll scat, only the fourth confirmation of the animals’ existence in the Otways this century.

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  • Cat’s shooting angers owner

    A COLAC cat almost died after someone shot it with an air rifle and left it for dead.

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  • Hope for cape koalas amid health project

    STATE GOVERNMENT workers have euthanised 47 koalas and released another 280 back into the forest as part of an initiative to manage koalas at Cape Otway.

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  • Director to meet wildlife carers amid kangaroo shooting crisis

    A CARLISLE RIVER wildlife carer hopes a meeting with a State Government director might lead to the changes in rules he has been fighting for.

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