An environmental consultant wants to extend a project to save Colac and district’s threatened frog species.Ray Draper runs his own business Central Highlands Environmental Consultancy, is a stewardship officer with Trust for Nature and is in the Ballarat Environment Network.Mr Draper has worked for the past two years with Trust for Nature on a Chytrid [...]

Six environmentally-conscious Colac district Grade Six pupils will host marine tours to raise money for a trip to Queensland.The pupils from Lorne-Aireys Inlet P-12 College will lead tours at Aireys Inlet’s Split Point Lighthouse on Friday.Ella and Zoe Rust and Charlie Harvey from the school’s Lorne campus and Billie Perry, Justin Fox and Tenzin Liddy-Corlett [...]

More than a decade of protesting has paid off for anti-logging activists who are celebrating the end of logging licences for public land in the Otways. Otway Conservation Council’s Stephen Chenery and Fiona Nelson have been actively involved in the fight to stop logging since the mid-1990s. [...]

A community water monitoring program has a new home in Colac. Corangamite Waterwatch has moved its operations to Corangamite Catchment Management Authority offices in Colac and Geelong. The group had previously worked from Barwon Water offices. Regional co-ordinator Bernadette Van Noordenburg said Corangamite Waterwatch had strong [...]