This weekend Dr Graeme Lorimer returns to Far East Gippsland for a series of events in bushfire impacted communities. The aim of these workshops is to explain the ecology of plant regrowth post fire and why sometimes you see a profusion of a particular species and what that might mean. An example of this might be black wattle. As he will explain they may not be such a bad thing after...
Mallacoota’s Leo op den Brouw has been nominated for a 2022 Australian of the Year Victorian local hero award. Leo, a Victorian State Emergency Service (SES) volunteer, is one of 16 Victorian nominated across the Australian of the Year, Young Australian, Senior Australian and Local Hero categories, which feature a young man making meals for healthcare workers, a koala conservationist, the...