Flora, Fauna, Fire, Water
We include here resources, information, and links to past events with the videos and/or slides speakers shared with us. Past events are arranged chronologically.
INFORMATION, RESOURCES
Friends of Lorne put together a photo guide to GORCAPA’s tea tree removal and habitat restoration plans on the foreshore. We did this to promote understanding and better dialogue. GORCAPA listened and took community values into account. The removal is now more gradual and replacement plantings are occurring. We’re also developing plans to monitor the impact, so the policy can be adjusted if needs be.
Water supply in Lorne is precarious. Lorne uses about 340 million litres (ML) each year, which is more than the 215 ML capacity of the Allen Reservoir. Lorne therefore relies not just on rain falling in its catchment, but also on it falling often enough each year to top up the Reservoir before it runs dry. Check out this briefing paper put together by Mary Lush and Janet Beard. Barwon Water is currently working with the Lorne community on water supply planning. You can read about progress so far here.
HOODED PLOVERS IN LORNE
Over January and February 2024 many of our members volunteered with BirdLife Australia to help keep two endangered hooded plovers safe on our beach during the 5 weeks while they raised two chicks to adulthood. It was a remarkable community effort to keep the beach dog and people free. Read more here.
2023
PAST EVENTS
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Tuesday 24 January 11 AM to Noon
Lorne Community House
Become an iNaturalist user
Rod Lowther (Geelong Field Naturalist Club and local coordinator of the iNaturalist City Nature Challenge) will tell us why iNaturalist is important and show us how to become contributors.
BRING your laptop, pad or smartphone. Use a desktop? No worries, you will still learn how to use iNaturalist.
If the 11 AM session is full, Rod will run a second session at 1 PM. If you can only attend at 1 PM please email us now. This and other enquiries to:
committee@friendsoflorne.org.au
ANSWER: It is a satin bowerbird.
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2022
This Webinar with Dr Greg Moore was held on 4 pm Tuesday 4th October 2022. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Ct4tCsWUo
The photo is of tree destruction in Fernleigh Tce, to create a clearer view of the pier for the new purchasers of a house further up the hill in Normanby Tce. Thank you to those tradies first approached who refused the job.
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2021
Zoom session Tuesday 8 June 2021, 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Surf Coast whales and what to do when you see one
Recorded webinar with Mandy Watson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvlzdrcUeDY
Mandy kindly provided a copy of her slides. Please note that this material is subject to copyright. Mandy’s approval must be sought before it is reproduced.
For the slides click here
Whale information and reports:
To upload photos and sightings: https://www.swifft.net.au/whaleface/
Safety and treatment of whales: https://www.wildlife.vic.gov.au/our-wildlife/whales,-dolphins-and-seals/water-safety-around-marine-mammals
Whale emergency hotline: 1300 136 017
To report interference with wildlife: 136 186
To contact Mandy Watson: mandy.watson@delwp.vic.gov.au
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2021
Presented in association with the Great Ocean Road Communities Network
Climate change and coastal erosion: the Great Ocean Road
This series of four webinars held in October and November 2021 is now complete. All sessions were recorded and can viewed here
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2020
‘What’s the future of living in bushfire-prone regions?’ September 2020 (in association with AIDA)
Session 1, 10 September 2020. Past, present and future of unplanned fires.
Webinar: https://youtu.be/GxFquW-UqZM
Slides:
David Lindenmayer – Long-term insights into the impacts of, and responses to, wildfires in Victoria, slides click here
Steven Farrell – Trends, futures and extreme events, slides click here
Session 2, 14 September 2020. The drivers of fire.
Webinar: https://youtu.be/FP-J9c0IZyc
Slides:
Janet Stanley – The human factors, thinking outside the box, slides click here
Kevin Tolhurst – The drivers of unplanned fires in the Otways, slides click here, and for video corresponding to the end of his presentation click here
Session 3, 17 September 2020. Planning for unplanned fires.
Webinar: https://youtu.be/-px8kOysTlU
Slides:
Barbara Norman – Safeguarding our coastline during a period of significant change, slides click here
Justin Leonard – Bushfire risk at the house scale, click here
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A Guide to Fauna and Flora Around Lorne
Natural history photographs compiled as a slide show for use at the Lorne Visitor Centre
Click on each slide to advance to the next one. Use the back arrow of your browser to return to the Friends of Lorne site. Click here to start the show