All five new Councillors to Maroondah are now registered with our group to enable receiving notifications from the local Conservation group known as Croydon Conservation Society. We are a voice for the whole of Maroondah in terms of protecting our mature canopy tree cover in all locations including residential land we also work with Council on MEAC and on Habitat…

CCS is local, but we gather news from so many other environment groups, local and national, one newsletter that just came in is from the Environment Defenders Office. In brief, here are some wins. This one in the Hunter Valley in NSW The original HVO Optimisation Project proposal was to extend the life of two adjacent mines in the Upper…

We have been updating and checking our membership for insurance purposes. This may have re- generated an email for you. If so just make the password what you want and you should receive any new posts from us that are uploaded to the website. Good to have you all with us, as we try to preserve, conserve and replace habitat…

For financial members only, feel free to comment please We reviewed our Objectives in 2005, and again in 2016, it is time again to review our aims. Of the 6 previous aims it was suggested at our January meeting, that this one becomes our Strategic Statement. To do all things lawful to preserve the Natural Environment, especially the native flora…

PROPOSAL FOR 72–84 BELMONT ROAD WEST, CROYDON SOUTH The site is owned by Department of Education (DE) which has determined the site surplus to their operational requirements. The Land and Property Group of the Department of Transport and Planning(L&P) on behalf of DE has requested to have appropriate planning provisions put in place to enable itto be sold and allow…

Back in 2018, CCS hosted a meeting with an expert from Victorian Agricultural security to inform the Yarra Valley, that fruit fly would reach Melbourne anytime soon. Well this year, in Maroondah, our backyard Nashi pear has been hit hard for the first time. The evidence is a tiny pinprick hole where the fly has injected eggs. The eggs mature…

CCS has a feature article on page 6. Just Google Find Maroondah

We thought that those of you who don’t use facebook, might like to see something we made specifically for our campaign to get the State Government to fix the Illegal tree fine situation, so that Councils can use it effectively. It’s calle Biophilia, turn up the volume, grab a cuppa and de- stress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxjvHl4IVoQ CCS has collectively, with about 20…

As we embrace the new uplifted Croydon station and rail line, which will have a very positive effect of re-joining Croydon into a flat walk-through area from many locations, we need to also understand the environmental impact. For CCS this means the Crane memorial planting, which was a project done by CCS back years ago, and which could be at…