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

Messmate dieback / maintain a canopy across Maroondah

Recently two development proposals have brought up an issue with the owners ability to remove some mature trees just because they are a weedy species. CCS has discussed this at recent meetings and we have just this week sent a letter of request to Maroondah City Council regarding Pittosporums.

We have asked that they be removed from the “as of right” invasive species list and placed with other valuable trees on the need to “require a permit to remove”. This is until and if, we happen to find a robust Eucalypt that will withstand long periods of drought. In the mean time the dense canopies of Pittosporums across the municipality are looking quite healthy and providing great shade for delicate understory, and preventing the further drying out of the earth. Please stand with us on this decision, as we are threatened with losing thousands of local Messmates through climatic conditions being currently unsuitable for their survival.

• 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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