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 →
BLACK HOLE
A new film reveals unseen footage of coal, corruption and community resistance of one of Australia’s most controversial mining projects – Whitehaven’s Maules Creek Coal Mine in the Leard State Forest.Read more
Abolish Failed Forest Deals
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 →
WALK WATCH and WONDER!
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 →
An Afternoon of Free Films
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 →
Grace Burn Project/ Community Restoration Initiative
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 →
The Sex Life of Orchids
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 →
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 →