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Climbing for a top cause By Oliver Winn No matter the conditions, Wesburn/Millgrove and Warburton CFA members are climbing the Mount Donna Buang Observation Tower to train for this year’s Melbourne Firefighters Stair Climb. Taking place on 6 September, it will raise funds for the Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation, Lifeline and the 000 Foundation. Read more on page 8
The Wesburn/Millgrove and Warburton CFAs train every Saturday for the MFSC. (Supplied)
Platypus concern By Oliver Winn Conservationists are concerned more platypuses will suffer due to recent fisheries officers cuts after three were found dead last week in Yarra Junction. Two adult male platypuses were found dead in illegal opera house nets by a Yarra Ranges Coun-
cil staff member on 11 July and a member of the public reported a third dead platypus the previous day. Victorian National Parks Association (VNPA) parks and nature campaigner Jordan Crook said it was heart wrenching to witness the damage caused by a lack of enforcement. “There’s less regulators on the beat making
sure traps like this don’t get set and encouraging folks to use traps that are safe for platypus while also still being able to catch yabbies,” Mr Crook said. The Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) reduced its overall staffing by 50 per cent and slashed the number of compliance officers across the state from 73 to 35 in June.
Opera house nets were banned in July 2019 due to a large amount of platypuses and rakali being killed in the traps. In May the Star Mail reported on a dead platypus killed by an abandoned hoop nest in the Yarra River in East Warburton. Read more on page 3
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