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Media Releases
Below are the most recent media releases produced by the Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority.
May 2009
Community helps plan ‘Living Links’ for South East Melbourne
Land management bus tour put landholders in the know
Drought Employment Program helps rebuild after bushfires
April 2009
Melton/Wyndham kick up their heels for the environment
Strathewan Landcare Group - introductory sessions for bushfires
Planting for success in the West - training days
March 2009
Local input needed for south east’s Master Plan
Landcare buddies for bushfire recovery in for the long haul
February 2009
List of contacts and links for those affected by Victoria's bushfires
Environmental master plan for Melbourne’s south east Photo (Caption: Living Links Master Plan reaches from the hills to the coast)
January 2009
Drought funding available
Local projects share in $3.39 million landcare grants
2008 releases
Living Links - Local projects help create healthy communities - December
Coldstream Hills funding to benefit Yarra environment - November
Community Grants - Groups must be quick to grab environmental funding -September
Media release about Winners of Landcare Awards -September
Landcare Awards - Caring for Community Groups Winner Brian Bainbridge-September
Landcare Awards - Community Group Caring for Public Land Winner Friends of the Helmeted Honeyeater -September
Landcare Awards - Individual Caring for Public Land Winner Julia Davis-September
Landcare Awards - Young People Caring for Land Winner Balnarring Primary -September
Landcare Awards - Primary Producer Caring for Land Rob and Carol Tylee -September
Landcare Awards - Caring for Nature Winner Bend of Islands Conservation Association -September
Landcare Awards - Caring for Waterways Winner Chinamans Creek -September
Landcare Awards - Indigenous Caring for Land Kim Wandin and Dion Bender -September
Landcare Awards - Local Government Caring for Land Manningham City Council -September
Landcare Awards - Individual Caring for Private Land Penny Roberts -September
Landcare Awards - Community group caring for Private Land Western Port Slow the Flow Cluster -September
Spirit of the Bunyip Launch – Planting 100 kilometres of trees from hills to Western Port -September
Yarra4Life - Melbourne’s food & wine industry plants its way
to a better environment - August
Landcare Awards - Celebrate the heroes of our environment - August
Landcare Awards - The power of one – our heroes who make a difference - August
2008 Port Phillip and Western Port Landcare Awards - Local Heroes at your Local Council - August
PPWCMA/Melbourne Grants Now Open - August
Jemena Revives Local Parkland - August
Grow West Community Planting Day contributes to the local environment - July
French Island - Haven or threatened wilderness? - June
Can I be paid for farming nature? - Catchment Seminars - May
Living Links healthy pathways for the future - bike ride -May
John Robinson - Local Landcare fellow off to the U.S. - May
Port Phillip and Western Port Landcare Awards Nominations open - April
New Landcare Group - Mornington Peninsula receives environmental boost - April
Helmeted honeyeater - Victoria’s most precious bird offered a reprieve - February
Local environment the winner as Living Links kicks into gear - January
2007 releases
Melbourne Environment Report launch press release
Melbourne Environment Report regional snapshot
Melbourne Environment Report quotes from key players
Melbourne Environment Report Urban Greenie checklist
Melbourne Environment Report Collingwood Football Club initiatives
Melbourne Environment Report Card
Living Links Mobile Muster support
Landowner rebates a good incentive for Landcare-Wallan
Drouin brings Landcare to the people
Landcare sparks landholder interest around Wallan
Local landownders go native for the environment- Landcare
Melbourne Water/PPWCMA Community Grants make a difference
Winner Landcare awards - Hume sets environmental example
Winner Landcare awards - Kororoit's ‘formidable’ waterway restoration
Winner Landcare awards - Sustainable farming award for Bacchus Marsh role model
Congratulations to all our winners and commendations at the 2007 Victorian Landcare awards
Landcare Awards - Darebin Parklands Association-Landcare Community Group award
Landcare Awards - Rosemary Knox-Individual Landcarer award
Landcare Awards - Balnarring Primary-Education award
Landcare Awards - Worawa Aboriginal College-Indigenous award
Landcare Awards - Friends of Helmeted Honeyeater-Nature conservation award
Landcare Awards - Newham & District Landcare award
Landcare Awards - Friends of Lower Kororoit Creek-Rivercare award
Landcare Awards - Hume City
Landcare Awards - Graham Simpson-Sustainable Farming award
Landcare Awards - Ray Radford-Individual Landcarer award
Landcare Awards - Pat Liffman/Wombat State Forest
Landcare Awards - PPWCMA Landcare Support Team
Grant to boost Grow West land care initiatives
A web of green across the Dandenong Creek catchment
Letter to the editor - Berwick Leader
Be part of the land army
Our Dandenong environment - the facts
Living Links
Calling all land carers
Second report card in on region's environmental health
New Plan to protect Melbourne's native plants and wildlife
December 2006
Assistance for drought affected farmers
October 2006
Local ranger wins international award for Thin Green Line
September 2006
Heroes of Landcare awarded
Age no barrier to weeding out environmental pests
Bacchus Marsh landholder lauded for Landcare leadership
Balnaring Primary wins major award for Balbirooroo
Caring for Country
Caring for the Merri - a creek contributor
Heroes of the helmeted honeyeater take out top environment award
Kororoit Creek gets recognition it deserves
Loch farmer lands major environment award
Newham wins landcare award
Tip transformation wins top environment award
Top honour to Hume City Council
August 2006
Easier grants for a better environment
Landcare Awards Media Alert
$13,000 to recreate bush linking Dandenong Ranges
July 2006
Rural Landholders to be paid to look after the land
June 2006
A legacy for the west from the Commonwealth Games
Don Valley demo farm shows how to do it
May 2006
Funds help green links protect Werribee Gorge State Park
Yarra River - the facts
Awarding those who care for our land and waterways
Boggy Creek given funding boost
Our Western Port environment - the latest facts
April 2006
Help for gardeners to save the natives of Riddells Creek
Romsey Primary School takes the lead in greening the ground
Students lend a hand to save the platypus
March 2006
The bay in best health for 30 years, expert says
Our environment - the facts
New attack to save grasslands
Balnarring Primary wins major break for Balbirooroo
Reef Watch snares $50,000 to protect marine life
February 2006
Recycled water use on the rise
Report card in on region's environmental health
Landcare success for Tarago
January 2006
Healthy solution for region's economic future
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