Environment
Art connection to environment
ARTIST Peter Day is connecting people to the environment through a Colac district wetlands art display.
Vandals poison Lorne trees
COUNCIL workers will uproot a tree from a Lorne street after vandals poisoned it.
Water strategy will affect farmers
A SIX-YEAR plan to protect waterways in the Colac district aims to benefit landowners and the environment.
Otways towns work on fire refuges
TWO Otways towns are a step closer to establishing last-resort bushfire refuges.
First tiger quoll sighting in decade
HOLIDAYMAKERS near Lorne have unknowingly encountered the critically endangered tiger quoll, the first confirmed Otways sighting in more than a decade.
Birds batter vineyard’s harvest
BIRDS have wiped out about half of this year’s grape harvest at a Colac district vineyard.
Friends of Earth support council push
AN ENVIRONMENTAL group says Colac Otway Shire Council’s push to ban coal-seam gas mining has “special significance”.
Councillor calls for gas mining ban
A COLAC OTWAY Shire councillor wants the State Government to ban coal-seam gas exploration.