Events Archive
23-9-4
hi cyclists.... it is happening!! the race of the century...
CYCLE FOR OLD GROWTH FORESTS COGF v PUFFING BILLY
SUNDAY 26 September 2004
Meet: Belgrave Station/Puffing Billy Station cnr Old Monbulk Road & Bayview Road on the Bridge @ 11.30am raCe starts when the train departs @ 12.20 finishing @ Emerald Park Lake, LakesidE Station Awaiting us will is a free organic BBQ/picnic, banDs, performers, face painting… !! It is 12 km bike ride … suitable for all levels of fitness. There are a few up hills, but what goes up must come down… so brace yourself for some nice down hills!! If you aren’t up for the ride jump on board the Puffing Billy and cheer the cyclisTs!! We have booked an entire carriage, so call The Wilderness Society to reserve your place (ph: 96395455). You will still need to buy a ticket to ride. Cost of tickets return from Belgrave to Lakeside $29.50 adult $23.50 student/concession $15 child Under 4 free This will be a HUGE event, raising awareness on Old Growth ForesTs … with the election just around the corner it is important that we help spread the word … that the destruction of our precious foresTs stop NOW!!
Kerin Fogarty 0418 577 925 cyclesistak@yahoo.com.au
21-4-4
You are invited to the inaugural meeting for the regional section of the Global Caucus on Community Based Forest Management (CBFM)
7pm Monday, 3 May
Venue : Boardroom, Australian Conservation Foundation 1st Floor, 60 Leicester St Carlton 3053
This caucus has evolved worldwide to support CBFM through advocacy and by sharing knowledge, information and skills. Provisional Australian focal points, Anitra Nelson and Lee Tan, will report on caucus meetings they attended at Quebec City, September 2003, and Bangkok in January 2004. However this meeting will concentrate on future activities, i.e. exploring ways that the Australian network can be established and maintained.
Light refreshments provided!
Please RSVP: Lee Tan E-mail : l.tan@acfonline.org.au Tele: +61 3 9345 1135 Mobile : 0417 082 294
FORESTS & JUSTICE & COMMUNITY
8-12-03
2-11-03
I've had a few people keen for me to organise "the Quest for the Tuft-tailed Phascogale (Part 3)", which would include: - camping at Dingo Creek for a week - exploring a very rare stand of undisturbed old-growth / Mixed Forest; towering forest giants and rainforest understorey - spotlighting & night walks - flora, insect, bird and mammal surveys - possibly live animal trapping - mega-treeclimbing to overlook Mixed Forest area from the canopy I cant commit at this stage, as I'm also trying to line up paid work, but tentative dates: Sunday Nov 30 - Saturday Dec 6th Perhaps people who contacted you about the old-growth walk but are facing being turned away could be offered this alternative? There is no fee, but expenses are shared. Let me know, I'll try and make a definitely date soon. Tony Quoll
http://www.green.net.au/quoll/index.html
15-7-03
17-4-03
Tasmanian Forest Films.
On Tour In Melbourne for one night only...
8pm, Sunday 27th April at CERES Environment Park, 8 Lee St East Brunswick. Entry by donation
A delicious supper of Cakes and Chai will be available.
Featuring:
Forest Cycle (8 mins). Young cyclists take their forest message to schools, street stalls and forest workers.
When The Plantations Came (32 mins). A tale of the people whose lives have been affected by current forest practices.
The One Tree Project (24 mins). One tree that was to be woodchipped is instead donated to artists and craftspeople.
The Place That Got It Right (24 mins). Doctors, Artists and Timberworkers For Forests explain why their groups were formed.
Gentle Miracles (11 mins). A beekeeper and a wooden boatbuilder explain the importance of old growth forests.
Independent Filmaker Helen Shivanii Cameron will speak about her films and the current state of forests and activism in Tasmania.
Visit the Moving lens Productions Website: http://members.optusnet.com.au/bearsman/movinglens/
Goolengook- The Story So Far
Film Presentation 7pm, Thursday, May 1st, RMIT Kaliede Theatre, 360 Swanston St. City
Explore the ancient Gondwanan values of Goolengook, the largest unprotected area of old growth forest in Victoria,and the conservationists fighting to stop the continuing destruction of this priceless ecosystem includes music and discussion, food and drink provided
Donation proceeds go to GECO and SKATV contact rmit environment collective for more info-9925 1723 or suche.environment@rmit.edu.au
more info on East Gippsland forests www.geco.org.au & www.green.net.au/quoll
7-4-03
To build upon our recent "success" in the forest, there will be a Community Action Day in support of our local forests on Sunday 13 April, and the UBAG appeals to all of its supporters to spread the word and come along with your Ideas for Action.
We will meet in the car park of the Gembrook Community Centre (Melway Map 189, J10) at 9 am.
An information sheet is attached. For more info, or if you can offer assistance, please contact Bob Thompson on 9702 1017.
Our aim is to build sufficient local community momentum that key politicians will decide to impose a total end to any further logging in the Upper Bunyip forestry block. This in turn will pave the way for alternative management of the block as a reserve for passive recreation, and a haven for passive eco-tourism. regards to all, Bob Thompson President - UBAG Inc.
Have Your Say On The Greater Otways National Park
MAKE A VEAC SUBMISION
The Victorian Environment Assessment Council, which has the task of determining the size and management of an expanded Otways reserve system, is asking for public submissions by 28th April 2003. Whether your submission is half a page or twenty pages, OREN urges all interested people (and groups) to be involved in this process. The logging industry has already begun a loud campaign to stop an expanded National Park and convince the government that logging should continue. The (small but loud) opposition to an expanded National Park makes it even more important that lots of pro- conservation submissions are received by VEAC, particularly from people in the Otway region. OREN asks that all members and supporters make a submission and encourage others to do so too Individuals, conservation and community groups need to be actively involved in the VEAC process which will determine the size and management of an expanded Otways reserve system. The greater the community involvement in the assessment the more likely the government will stick with the policy and the better the conservation outcomes will be. The woodchip and logging industries will argue, through this process and in the media, that logging should continue. Already a group, called ˜Our Parks", opposing a National Park has been formed and had a meeting on the 20th March attended by over a hundred people. Some farmers attended who believed their land would be taken away from them for the National Park. Attitudes like those raise questions as to what lies and other scare tactics are being used to get local people to oppose the National Park.
The VEAC process is broken up into three stages:
1) Discussions paper, September 2003
2) Draft proposals paper, April 2004
3) Final Report to Minister, September 2004.
Submissions for discussion paper close 28 April 2003.
As part of the VEAC Discussion paper, VEAC wants to know why particular areas should be included in a new reserve system for the Otways. When writing submissions it is important to realise that the State government has already publicly committed to creating a National Park from Cape Otway to Anglesea up to the Otways ridge and include all key rainforest areas (presumably Rainforest Sites of Significance which fall within this area). Hence it is highly likely that the area that the government has already committed will be included in the new reserve system. For other areas such as the Geelong Catchment area, Warrnambool Catchment area and forest west of Cape Otway, community groups and individuals will need to write strong submissions that argue for protection of these areas along with what the government has already publicly committed to do. However mention of the areas the Government is committed to protect still needs to be included or the logging industry will argue no-one is interested in the conservation value of these areas so logging can proceed. Issues that can be included in submissions Conservation values.
1· Wildlife and forests in general (in relation to the fact only a limited amount remains in Western Victoria)
2· Endangered species and wildlife listed under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act,
3· Cool Temperate Rainforest,
4· Old growth forest or veteran trees,
5· Wildlife corridors linking up existing parks and reserves,
6· Natural landscape values (i.e. the naturalness of whole catchments or landscapes relative to catchments and landscapes that are more disturbed)
7· Aesthetic values,
8· Spiritual values, and
9· Historic or cultural values.
Economic values could include:
a· Aesthetic value and potential for the tourism industry.
b· General water catchment values.
c· Domestic Water supply catchment values. For an expanded discussion of these non-timber values of the Otways Forests see www.oren.org.au [Feel free to cut & paste text from the comprehensive and easy to use oren website in making your email or postal submissions- see www.oren.org.au]
VEAC 3rd Floor, 250 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002 Ph (03) 94125100 Toll Free: 1800134 803
Website: www.veac.vic.gov.au
6-1-03
Press Release: (Friday January 3, 2003)
The Yorta Yorta Celebrate Their Survival!
Yorta Yorta Survival Weekend – Saturday January 25 & Sunday January 26, 2003
The Yorta Yorta nation will play host to a Survival Weekend on their land, in the Barmah Forest*, next Invasion Day (Sunday January 26, 2003). After the rejection of their native title application in the High Court of Australia (a decision that exhausts all available domestic avenues), the Yorta Yorta will hold a weekend-long event on January 25 and January 26, 2003 at the Dharnya Centre (Sandridge Rd, Barmah Forest). It will be an event that will feature some of south-eastern Australia’s best Indigenous/non-Indigenous musicians & performers; along with forums, stalls, recreational activities in the Barmah Forest and a huge camp-out on Yorta Yorta land. Expect Lou Bennet (formerly of Tiddas), Richard Frankland, Peter Rotumah, The Maza Sisters, the Sea of Hands, the fabulous Brolga Boys and other special guest speakers and performers. All are welcomed to join in this event.
It'll be a case of BYO camping equipment and food; although the event organisers will provide BBQ facilities, entertainment and an unmatched way to mark January 26. There will also be forums for non-Indigenous people to become informed and take action and the Yorta Yorta nation will deliver a statement on 'Australia Day' about their intended future plans. The weekend will also be a platform to launch a massive fundraising effort to cover the shamefully astronomical costs of the legal bills that the Yorta Yorta must foot. Mark it in your diaries, dust off your camping equipment, inform your friends and join the Yorta Yorta people in their pursuit of justice!
*The Barmah Forest is on the banks of the Murray River, 22 kms north-east of Echuca (all up, it's about 3-hours drive from Melbourne). For further information call bryan on (03) 9483 1363; or see www.nativetitle.org/yortayorta (to be launched Thursday January 9) for maps, camping tips, promo down-loads, press releases and the latest concert programs.
Earth Matters - Australia's weekly environment program for community radio. Produced at Radio 3CR in Melbourne & beamed around the nation on the ComRadSat.
p) 03 9419 8377 f) 03 9417 4472 m) 0409 257 354 c/- Radio 3CR PO Box 1277 Collingwood VIC 3066
http://www.nativetitle.org/yortayorta/
18-12-02
Train action coming - TBA
18-11-02
Forest Freedom Festival 23-24 November
26-10-02
Action 1-11-02 7.30 AM.
WHAT? Honk for Old Growth Forests (4th week running)
WHEN? Friday 1st November, 7.30am - 10am
WHERE? 240 Victoria Prd, City, near corner of Smith St opposite Catholic University
WHO? Victorian government's NRE (Natural Recourses and Environment)
WHY? Because NRE are still logging old growth forests
BRING? Banners, animal costume, props, camera, friends and if you can, wear a suit for the cause!!
Benefit for Forest Network @ The Empress Hotel, Nicholson St. Fitzroy 2-3pm Nov.3,2002.
27-8-02
See this (upcoming action)
20-8-02
details @ www.forestfreedom.org/
details
A "skillshare" is being held at Gook from Sep. 6th - 9th.
Take advantage of this opportunity to become oriented and familiar with the terrain, roads, tracks and tactics before the shyte goes down. Workshops will be conducted on ecology, climbing, orienteering/maps, GPS, rope skills, blockade etiquette, survival,hair tubing, other statewide forest campaigns, legalities and threats to civil liberties and much much more !!! Jam sessions & storytelling @ nite.
BYO food for communal cooking space ; some (vegan) catering will also be provided by GECO kitchen.
Please leave dogs @ home !
BYO camping and wet weather gear.
Directions : >From Melb, head along Princes Hwy to Orbost. Continue past Cabbage Tree, and Bellbird Pub. Turn LEFT @ Bemm River bridge. Follow this rd (Club Terrace Loop Rd) till ya reach white farmhouse on Left. Veer LEFT onto Goolengook Rd. Follow forever till ya reach 'Bee Tree Track'. We will be @ this junction.
Troubleshooting, call GECO 03 51540156
15-7-02
Stay tuned for SCUMLOTTO where a lucky company wins the right to a direct action!!!
Starting Aug 16
12-6-02
11th Annual Students and Sustainability Conference (S&S)
Sun 7th - Sat 13th July, 2002 Murdoch University South Street, Murdoch Perth, Western Australia
http://www.asen.org.au/ss2002/
12-6-02
Last Chance Forest Tours
Come and see our forests before they are gone forever.
Next Tour Saturday 15th June 2002 8.30 am- 7.00 pm
Leaving Melbourne via Geelong $35-45 details below
Last Chance Tours Info. Our next tour will be held on June the 15th leaving from in front of the Concert Hall in Melbourne (the one with the spire on top) on St Kilda Rd at 8.30 am returning between around 6.30 7.00pm. Assemble in vicinity of post box. Pick up from Geelong Station can be arranged on request (we will be picking up Dave from Geelong on route). Bring: BYO lunch (opportunity to buy on the way), warm and wet weather gear. The book please email Adrian Whitehead at jock@labyrinth.net.au or ring me on 0417 545 846. Costs estimate is between $35-$45 dollars for the day, based on fuel and mini bus rental costs, and number of people attending. Donations to the forest campaign in excess of the cost of the tours would be most welcome. The tours includes two water falls, one lake, one dam, Geelong woodchip mill, a number of coupes, rainforest, sites significant to the forest campaign, and lot of other things... Explanations will be given on the way details issues surround logging of the Otways and Victoria’s native forests.
26-5-02
Wombat forest needs you
June 1st @NOLANS CREEK CAMPING GROUND party with the powerful owl
Dissident DJ's all saturday nite in the ring of fire
Bring and instrument and join the acoustic picnic sunday fight destruction with dance and help stop annihiliation of biodiversity, pollution of mineral springs, unsustainable clearfell logging and woodchiping by monopolist corporatioons
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
TO GET THERE
nolans creek camping ground from melbourne take calder to woodend take turn to Daylesford. Follow the road to Bullarto store(37km)turn left and follow the signs. For more info or music volunteers contact glen 54734474 STAND UP FOR THE WOMBAT
22-5-02
goongerah old-growth grooves
queen's birthday long w'end 8/9/10 june 2002
magikal mystikal tours into brown mountain (saturday) & kuark/goolengook (sunday/monday), endangered species surveys, botanists, tree climbing, forest camping...
a celebratory evening will take place in the goongerah hall on saturday nite with understorey, madeline, james butt, tony quoll slide show & more.
food by geco kitchen.
contact geco 4 more details closer to date.
foe forest desk re car pooling/lifts (03) 9419 8700
come prepared 4 winter camping including personal food/communal pot sharing...
geco@green.net.au (03) 5154 0156 goongerah, bonang hwy, far east gippsland
ancient forests must survive
21-2-02
Some Melbourne events for Goolengook:
GOOLENGOOK BENEFIT at CERES, 24th April -
contact: jyotiblencowe@hotmail.com
GOOLENGOOK FORUM 2nd May CERES environmental park,
East Brunswick call Noel (9387 2609) for more info,
or if you want to speak
FEATHERS FUR 'N' FISHNETS Wednesday 3rd May
(dress raunchy baby) for six dollars and your donation with:
Farmer-Suitical
Chin Bindi
Aztek / Base kitty
Buddah Basics
munchies by Geco kitchen
At: the Pink Palace, 56 Eastment St Northcote