WHAT’S NEW !
# These 3 climate misinformation campaigns are operating during the election run-up. Here’s how to spot them
# Fire tornadoes becoming routine due to climate change, analysts say
# How to indulge sustainably this Easter
# Report from Pine Ave Dog Park Group, April 2025
# Clean Up Australia Day 2025 our biggest ever clean-up !
# Superb fairy-wren personality traits can be heard in their songs, study finds
# Detox your home event, May 3
# Dishing up change and reducing waste at events
# April Newsletter for environmental volunteers and landcarers
# Mornington Fishermans jetty rebuild – community update, March 2025
# Report on March working bee at Pine Ave Dog Park
# Tips on recycling in Mornington
# Where to tap ocean currents for renewable power
# The March-edition of ParkWatch
# A 150 year old Australian Moreton Bay fig is named among the most beloved trees in Europe
# We found the only kangaroo that doesn’t hop – and it can teach us how roos evolved their quirky gait
# Last night the zombie of native forest logging was reanimated
# Help support a thriving koala corridor in NSW
# For climate and livelihoods Africa, bets big on solar mini-grids
# More about solar power in Africa
# Mornington Peninsula Landcare Network Newsletter March, 2025
# The end of coal and the fake nuclear energy ‘red-herring’
# There are 32 invasive weeds of national significance – these are 10 of the worst
# Do offshore wind farms kill whales? The facts, fiction and unknowns of marine renewable energy
# Luxury hiking developments look picture-perfect, but could stop everyday Australians from accessing National Parks
# DNA points the finger at feral cats after translocation failures
# Dinner-plate turtle released back into the wild after ingesting fishing-hook
# Australia’s extinction crisis – 21 species join threatened list
# Garnaut: The renewables boom within our reach
# Superb lyrebirds have an unexpected new skill
# Reinstatement works at Shire Hall Beach
# Friends of Mornington Railway Reserve – Working bees are back for 2025
# Clean up Australia Day at Mills Beach and Foreshore – 2025
# Clean Up Australia Day at Hunter’s Crossing – 2025
# The return of the bandicoots: tiny gardeners transforming The Briars
# Melting Antarctic ice will slow the world’s strongest ocean current – and the global consequences are profound
MEA Objectives are:
- Work to protect existing positive qualities of the natural and human environment, including flora, fauna, the foreshore, the public and private land, the sea bead, waterways and the structures of historical significance.
- work to ensure the environment enhances rather than damages natural systems.
- where appropriate work to suport, oppose or amend development proposals which impact the natural or human environment.
- continue the campaign to defend the foreshore – our initial objective.
- cooperate or affiliate with other organisations with similar goals.
What MEA does:
- Works with our friends groups to protect and increase indigenous vegetation.
- Coordinates a local Clean Up Australia Day campaign.
- Educates students and the public through restoration projects, monitoring nest boxes and encouraging awareness and participation.
- Undertakes Waterwatch water quality monitoring in local creeks, waterways and the sea.
- Promotes removal of rubbish from beaches, storm water drains and roads.
- Supports the conservation of historic buildings and precincts.
- Increases awareness through newsletters, local media, our website, letters to the Governments and friends groups.
- Works with local community networks.
- Represents members’ interests with the Shire and other government agencies.
- Representation on Shire focus groups regarding Mornington harbour and surrounds to protect against environmental damage through infrastructure expansion.
- Advocates on peninsula development proposals including State plans for vegetation, green wedge and fire protection.
FRIENDS GROUPS
Our affiliated friends groups are volunteers. Groups have monthly working bees which include plant propagation, seeding, planting and weeding followed by morning tea.
