Coastline Winter Update 2011

Coordinators Message: Matt Fox, State Program Coordinator, Melbourne

Welcome to the Coastline winter update for 2011. Lots of activity here at head office as winter closes in.
We’re making preparations for a statewide event to bring you, our volunteers, together. We’re also busily
gearing up for another round of annual Coastcare Victoria grants. More information is available from your
local facilitator.

In the next few months you may notice some changes to the look of the program. We’ve been working
hard to complete a new program strategy to guide us for the next five years. For almost two decades we’ve
gone under the cumbersome banner of Coast Action/Coastcare. In order to simplify things into the future,
we’ve decided to rename the program Coastcare Victoria.

The program will continue to support Coast Action and Coastcare groups, as well as the numerous
friends groups that contribute to managing our coast. The facilitator network will remain the backbone
of the program. There’ll be some new logos to accompany the new program name, and apart from that
everything else remains the same.

So this is the final Coastline from Coast Action/Coastcare. But rest assured that Coastline will be back in
spring under our new name, Coastcare Victoria

Click here to view the Coastline Winter Update 2011, Edition 56 ISSN 1329-0835

In this issue

Coordinator’s Message -Pg1

Project Penguin Homes -Pg1

Sandy Point Coastal Management Workshop -Pg2

Orange-bellied parrots on the Bellarine – an update -Pg2

New conservation network for the Otways -Pg3

An Invitation to Join Your Local Coastal Committee of Management -Pg3

World-first Paddle Goes Clean Across Bass Strait -Pg4

The Southwest Coastcare Forum -Pg5–6

South Channel Fort Reopens -Pg7

Coast Action / Coast Care Education Trailer -Pg7

Introducing Inner City Girls to the Wonders of the Coastal World -Pg8

Celebrating Champions in Coastal Conservation -Pg9

The Victorians are flocking… -Pg9

Coastcare Victoria Grants Program -Pg10–11

Regional Updates -Pg12–13

The 2011 Victorian Landcare Awards are now open! -Pg14

Coming Events -Pg14

Coast Action/Coastcare Contacts -Pg14