A Walk, Watch and Wonder event with Healesville Environment Watch (HEWI) Nineteen people enjoyed an orchid trail on Sunday October 04, led by our knowledgeable leader Kaye McRae along bush tracks, discovering beautiful orchids, singly and in patches all the way. We were also fortunate to learn more about the biology of orchids from our supporting naturalists Jane and Malcolm… Read more →
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The incredible web of life
Right now our government can’t see the forest for the trees. They claim only people who live right next to big polluting coal mines will feel the impacts – and that other voices shouldn’t count.Read more
ROD QUANTOCK AT THE MEMO!
Planting Day
HEWI volunteers, with our energetic partners from Year 3 Healesville Primary School, Read more →
“From The Jolly Thing – Walked, Watched and Wondered with HEWI
As advertised in the last edition of TJT, on Saturday 30th May, Jane and Malcolm Calder led a group of appreciative bushwalkers from Tanglefoot car park to Wirrawilla. The walk had been organised by Healesville Environment Watch Inc, (HEWI). Read more
ROD QUANTOCK AT THE MEMO!
HEWI has much pleasure in announcing that comedian and environmental activist Rod Quantock will be presenting his “LAST TIM TAM” performance on the stage of the Memo Hall in Healesville next month. We are most grateful to Rod for agreeing to support our group’s advocacy work with his creative flair - raising the profile of the critical issues of peak… Read more →
FREE COMMUNITY EVENT WALK, WATCH and WONDER! – Myrtle Gully Track
This first activity to celebrate our lead up to ENVIRONMENT DAY will begin at the Tanglefoot carpark (on Sylvia Creek Road, 10 km from Myers Creek Road) at 11am for our acknowledgement of country, introductions and an early lunch. A leisurely walk will allow us to reach the remnant rainforest of Wirrawilla by 3pm. Read more →
See the “Frackman” movie @ MemoHall
Preventing the Extinction of an Iconic Globally Endangered Species – Leadbeater’s Possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri)
David Lindenmayer1,2,3*, David Blair1,2,3, Lachlan McBurney1,2,3 and Sam Banks1,2 Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Long-term Ecological Research Network, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia *Corresponding author: Lindenmayer D,… Read more →
Images from the Waterways Reflections event
Images provided by Mike Emmett from Redfish Bluefish Creative Read more →