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.

We all have a part to play in regenerating the planet we share, writes Christine Grayden, and Earth Month seems a good time to start.

Meg Humphry hopes her new children's storybook offers a gentle way into a very tough subject.

There was an overwhelming message at last weekend’s climate rally, reports Jessica Harrison

CORINELLA residents and other users of the foreshore reserve have been invited to provide feedback on a draft Landscape Management Plan that will provide clarity around vegetation management within the reserve.

​LOCAL “blue carbon” projects to maintain and restore mangrove, seagrass and saltmarsh ecosystems in Western Port could make a major contribution to meeting local and national targets of net zero carbon...

The mapping is done and now it’s time to make some hard decisions on Inverloch’s eroding coastline. Catherine Watson reports

Residents of Bass Coast’s coastal hamlets value their connection to nature, writes Emily Clarke, so don’t try to turn them into suburbia.

How do you build a nest box that lets in native birds and keeps out Indian mynahs? Ed Thexton reports on the latest in nest box technology.