Croydon Conservation Society

Your Community link to Local Conservation

• Welcome
  • 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
• What will the new Croydon Station look like?
• Local Town Planning
  • Greening greyfields
  • The Development Game
  • 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 Forum?
  • Tree Value
  • CCS mapping trees of significance
• Environment
  • dumped shopping trolleys
  • Tarralla wetlands
  • Candlebark Nursery newsletter
  • What is an acidified Ocean ?
  • unwanted mobile phones & goods
  • Battery recycling…at all Aldi stores
  • Litter ? bottles & cans. EPA
  • Local Air Quality monitor
  • Pacific ocean garbage island
  • Polluted local creek?
  • Global Warming
  • does it contain Palm Oil ?
  • 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

Tree Forum?

Recently CCS has made contact with Maroondah Council to ask for the opportunity of holding a forum to look at providing more protection for trees, as essential for us to counteract Climate Change in our living environment. Click here for the presentation Proposed Maroondah Tree- Biodiversity forum made to the Maroondah Environmental Advisory Committee on Tuesday 4th August .

Click here for the details of Monetary value of Trees as infrastructure assets amendment C212 from Melbourne City Council

Click here for Status quo in Council- illegally removed trees and Maroondah-Heritage-Tree-list

Click here for Risk assessment of trees

Click here for a more detailed Transcript from Dr Greg Moore at a tree forum held at the Basin in July.

Click here for a diagram on Changing mindset.

• 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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