Cowes and Inverloch are the standout towns for tree cover in Bass Coast and San Remo is the barest.

Bass Coast gardeners show and tell all in the second Edible Gardens Weekend, writes Sharon Willcox.

A warm welcome – and beautiful new information boards – await visitors to Coronet Bay’s foreshore walk.

BASS Coast Shire Council has saved almost $30,000 and almost 2000 tonnes of CO2 ​emissions in the past 12 months by powering its municipal offices, streetlights and community buildings with renewable energy.

Genetic analysis has confirmed that koalas in the Western Port Woodlands are descended from the original Victorian population, known as the Strzelecki koalas

South Gippsland Conservation Society supports sand dune renourishment ahead of rock walls, writes Philip Heath.

Microlight aviator Amellia Formby pays homage to Western Port’s migratory shorebirds

DUNCAN Sutherland still has vivid memories of the night he and a team of rangers released 67 eastern barred bandicoots on Phillip Island.

Governments and industry have spent over $200 million on failed attempts to industrialise Western Port. A bold new plan aims to stop it happening again, writes Jeff Nottle.

Almost 1.5 million short-tailed shearwaters have arrived on Phillip Island right on schedule.

Jackie and Dave Newman were stunned to discover a feathertail glider in The Gurdies Nature Conservation Reserve this week.

Phillip Island’s vision to become fully renewable by 2030 is a step closer, with plans approved for a big battery and a trial of community energy storage.

Richard Kemp is privileged to share his patch of paradise with creatures great and small.

Michael Nugent asks four Bass Coast EV pioneers about their experience of owning – and driving – an electric vehicle.

Covid put a stop to Dave and Jackie Newman’s wildlife safaris around Australia and introduced them to unimagined treasures just down the road.

Wanted: 100 Phillip Island households to share renewable energy. Zoë Geyer has the watts and volts about Bass Coast’s first neighbourhood battery trial.

Discovery of five swamp antechinus heartens those working to preserve and improve biodiversity in the area.

Bass Coast Shire Council has rejected the latest attempt to subdivide a large swamp block at Harmers Haven,

Attending his first climate strike Leo Wood-Ingram realised he was part of something important. Photos by Laura Brearley and terry Melvin

Attempts to subdivide the swamp have been rebuffed for 70 years, and John Old hopes the latest attempt goes the same way.