This HEWI event should have been called Platypus Detection! In drenching rain, a hardy group ventured out to the Watts River – and were rewarded with their first Platypus sighting! Another HEWI member was stationed downstream and he also had good vision of an adult Platypus. Read more →

Join Healesville Environment Watch Inc to learn all about the platypus of Healesville! Karen, our Grace Burn Project facilitator, will lead a survey for platypus in the Watts River, followed by presentations from Melbourne Water, Healesville Sanctuary & community groups. A special short film produced by Healesville Primary School students will also be shown. Dinner and supper will be provided.  Read more →

Before The Flood is the product of an incredible three-year journey that took place with my co-creator and director Fisher Stevens. Read more →

This year’s waterways restoration was along Wirrup Yaluk (Blackfish Creek) where our group had first planted in 1998 at the invitation of Yarra Ranges Shire and Melbourne Water. Two years later, Susi Weber and her Year 3 students from Healesville Primary School offered to assist our volunteers, with TAFE conservation and land management students also joining the growing team of… Read more →

Regional Forest Agreements Should End When They Expire If Not Before For nearly 20 years native forest logging in Victoria, Tasmania, NSW and WA has received special treatment under commonwealth environmental laws. Read more →

The next trail for this bi yearly event from Healesville Environment Watch Inc (HEWI) will begin in Toolangi and finish at Wirrawilla. This community walk will be led by Evelyn Feller on Sunday May 22, meeting at the Forest Discovery Centre by 10am where we learn more about the future of the new management of this valuable community resource. Read more →

HEWI invites you to share and discuss a stimulating double bill on current issues “The Case for Optimism on Climate Change”is a new TED Talk from Al Gore,presented withthe same humour and humanity that he conveyed in ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. This short presentation uses up-to-the-minute examples from around the globe and conveys Gore’s reasons for optimism that the world can… Read more →

This project for community restoration of a significant waterway has been successfully launched and already promises to become a self-sustaining community venture. Read more →