Cape Otway
Seismic blasts worry district’s fishermen
Back from left, Nick Polgeest, Anthony Olver, Don Edmunsen, Trevor Evans, John Bolitho, Tom MacTaggart and Johnathon Davey, front Markus Nolle and Anthony Bolitho, are concerned about the impact of seismic testing on rock lobster stocks off Cape Otway. See page 3 for the full story.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Relocation and desexing for Cape Otway koalas
WILDLIFE officers will relocate or desex Cape Otway koalas during an assessment starting Monday, and will put down sick koalas.
Plan to find homes for koalas
AN OTWAYS wildlife conservationist has welcomed the State Government’s commitment to help protect Victoria’s koalas.
Health check for Cape Otway’s controversial koalas
A COLAC district conservationist said she welcomes a State Government plan to tackle koala overpopulation at Cape Otway.