Croydon Conservation Society

Your Community link to Local Conservation

• Welcome
  • Response to Croydon Major Activity Centre draft
  • Article about why trees in Australia are dying
  • CCS our charter
  • 1964 to 2014 Golden Jubilee CCS
  • Join or contact us
  • Maroondah’s conservation history
  • our CV’s
• Local Town Planning
  • Greening greyfields
  • The Development Game
  • What will the new Croydon Station look like?
  • Croydon Central re-development
  • 30,000 new Maroondah-ites by 2040
  • I want to object
  • Nature revives human brains
  • Neighbourhood Character
  • VPO’s, SLO’s, Habitat corridors
  • Tree Removal & Habitat corridors
  • Check on amendment progress
• Trees
  • Illegal tree removal
  • Book our tree..free
  • Messmate dieback / maintain a canopy across Maroondah
  • Good news for Dire circumstaances
  • Downloadable Letter ..What trees do
  • Developers VS trees
  • Tree Value
  • CCS mapping trees of significance
• Environment
  • Tarralla wetlands
  • What is an acidified Ocean ?
  • Battery recycling…at all Aldi stores
  • Litter ? bottles & cans. EPA
  • Local Air Quality monitor
  • Pacific ocean garbage island
  • Polluted local creek?
  • Global Warming
  • Old Growth Forests- at risk?
  • Fracking…explained
• Flora/ Fauna
  • can you teach Australian wildlife NOT to eat cane toads and die?
  • 24 Hr Wildlife help
  • Frog census
  • Hello Possums
  • Maroondah’s Birds
  • Ducks & botox
  • Want Frogs?
  • Responsible kittys & puppies
  • Indigenous plants for this region
  • Indigenous Plants CD
  • Threatening Weeds
  • Mistletoe
• Youth depot
  • Einsteins observations
  • Possum boxes
  • Critters of Maroondah mug shots
  • Early primary – we live here too
  • Ringwood Lake
  • Conservation Hero
  • School Trees poster
  • The story of stuff – video
  • World wildlife rangers
• Public Transport
  • Freeways and the Environment
  • Link to public transport users group
• Living Healthy
  • is your backyard fit for vegies?
  • The Supreme court GM case
  • GM Salmon?
  • Eating healthy
  • Not treated pine? the alternative…
  • Treated pine
    • discontinued use of CCA in & around homes
    • Playgrounds & treated pine
    • CCS world first in analysis of CCA
  • Has your recreational park been sprayed ?
  • Zero/ Roundup weedicide
• VOLUNTEER
  • Other local conservation/ environment groups
  • Action Groups
  • Report abandoned waste. broken street trees
  • Become a Solar Citizen
  • Reserves – join in planting

Illegal tree removal

All trees in this region are considered valuable to all of us as residents. Canopy trees provide numerous benefits to our health wellbeing and also to local wildlife, see “what trees do” Ring the Ranger bylaws hotline….1300 88 22 33

A canopy tree is described as having a trunk circumference of greater than .5 of a meter, measured at 1 meter above the ground OR a tree in excess of 5 meters in height.

A permit is required to remove any tree of these dimensions unless it is within 3 meters of a dwelling, or is smaller than a canopy tree, or it is considered a weed species – see below, or a qualified arborist (tree specialist – not a feller) provides written advice that the tree is either dead dying or dangerous.

Weed species trees are, Pinus Radiata, English Holly, Sweet Pittosporum, Cotoneaster, Privet or Black Wattles, a full list is on Maroondah Council website.

• About the Croydon Conservation Society

  Croydon Conservation Society is a non profit community volunteer group, who since 1964 have been actively “conserving” the best of our local environment for us all to share, as well as planting native species in many locations to keep us and our local native inhabitants alive and flourishing!
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