Environment

  • Typhoon distresses Colac doctors

    COLAC doctors from the Philippines have spoken of their distress at seeing Super Typhoon Haiyan devastate their home country.

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  • Koala watchers’ lives at risk

    AN OTWAYS resident says there’ll be “blood on someone’s hands” if tourists continue to stop in the middle of the road to pat koalas.

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  • Historic fish liberation in Lake Colac

    LAKE Colac will become home to 50,000 native fish in a historic first next year.

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  • Tree disease changing landscape

    COLAC district’s landscape is facing drastic change as a disease continues to kill off the region’s iconic cypress wind breaks.

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  • Tracking Otways predators

    RESEARCHERS are using motion-sensing cameras, tracking collars and fox droppings to learn how predators respond to fire in the Otways.

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  • Logging proposal for Otways

    THE State Government has ruled out re-opening the Otways to commercial logging although an independent report suggests loggers could log the Otways for “minor forest produce”.

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  • Water concerns stop Otways developments

    A WATER authority is stopping people from building in the Otways, in a move to protect Warrnambool’s water supply.

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  • Election plea to fix lake

    A LAKE Colac campaigner wants Corangamite’s election hopefuls to commit to dredging the lake to make it deep enough for water sports.

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