News
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Injured cockatoo sighted again
Police are on the hunt for a person responsible for shooting a cockatoo with a bow and arrow in the Wandin area. A Sulphur-crested cockatoo…
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‘disturbing act of cruelty’
A Sulphur-crested cockatoo has been found in Wandin with an arrow protruding through its head. Police and government authorities are on the hunt for the…
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Volunteers helping cure grassfire risk
Victorians are being given the opportunity to become ‘citizen scientists’ and help provide CFA with critical information about the state’s fire risk. A new online…
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Seven Sisters Dreaming
Hearth Galleries forthcoming exhibition is opening soon. Napaljarri-Warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming) concerns a group of seven ancestral women being pursued by a cunning shape-shifter…
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Tourism turns to locals
With the news that international borders are likely to remain closed for the duration of the year, Yarra Ranges businesses and tourism operators will be…
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Study’s flammable finding
A peer-reviewed scientific review has found native forest logging makes forest more flammable and leads to elevated fire severity for several decades, whilst “mechanical thinning”…
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Celebrating female scientists
The peak organisation representing some 1000 professional and scientific forest land managers in Australia is urging women and girls to embrace the opportunities available in…
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Tough times return
Businesses across the Yarra Ranges have suffered a further blow as Victoria endures yet another round of stage four restrictions as part of a five-day…
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Grants help protect faunal emblems
Community groups in the Yarra Valley are taking action to protect two of Victoria’s faunal emblems – the Helmeted Honeyeater and the Leadbeater’s Possum –…
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Burras bowl through 100 years
One hundred years ago the Warburton Bowls Club was founded when the club was granted a ‘worthless’ piece of swampland in the Warburton Recreation Reserve,…
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Hoons speak out
The recent talk of a police taskforce targeting hoon driving has prompted car enthusiasts to voice their opinions, calling on authorities to ‘give them a…
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Whirlwind wedding
When news broke of Victoria’s five-day lockdown last Friday afternoon, Seville East’s Cristie and Jordan were not willing to cancel their wedding for a third…