Wildlife

  • Comfy new homes for wildlife

    Crafty students at St Brendan’s Catholic Primary School have created new wildlife habitats to help attract the local Coragulac fauna.

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  • Kooka caught in barbed wire

    Getting rescued was no laughing matter for an unlucky kookaburra who found himself stuck in a barbed wire fence at Forrest.

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  • Call to list species as vulnerable

    Conservationists are calling for the State Government to list the fat-tailed dunnart as vulnerable, with the last surviving small marsupial of the Colac district’s volcanic plains under serious threat of extinction.

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  • Return of bats after dispersal program

    Bats have returned to the Colac Botanic Gardens after work to disperse them in June.

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  • Furry visitor hangs out in Elliminyt garden

    Here’s some koala-ty content for the animal lovers out there.

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  • Apollo Bay patrols to protect endangered bird nests

    Environmental officials are patrolling the beach at Apollo Bay to protect endangered hooded plovers nesting along the Bay’s shoreline.

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  • Experts put down seal at Simpson

    Melbourne Zoo has stepped in to euthanase an elderly seal that appeared in a Simpson dairy paddock 35 kilometres from the coast.

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  • Potoroos in the spotlight

    A state-first study in the Otways is tracking how rare native animals fare after bushfires.

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