| Frog: | Frog stuff here |
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| Dolphin: | Dolphin stuff here |
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| Platypus: | The environment group sponsor four very adorable Platypii from the Australian Platypus Conservancy, who are based here in Victoria. There are two males, named Lucky and Magellan, and two females, Little Notch and Double Trouble. The four platypuses are from all over the state, Magellan's from the Wimmera River near the town of Elmhurst, Little Notch is from the Toorourrong area, Double trouble was first spotted in Mernda on Melbourne's outskirts and Lucky's from Eltham. |
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| Helmeted Honey Eater: | The Helmeted Honey Eater is critically endangered. Numbers declined from a counted 167 birds in 1967 to a low of 50 birds in 1990. There has been a steady increase since 1990 to just over 100 birds in the wild in 2000. In the 1998/99 breeding season, there were 20 breeding pairs in the wild. By sponsoring this group we wish to help increase the number of these beautiful birds, who in 1971, was chosen as Victoria's bird emblem. It is the only bird endemic to Victoria. |
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| Bear Cub: | Bear Cub stuff here |
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| Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge: |
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| Arbor Week: | Text here |
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| Green Up, Clean up: | Text here |
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| Clean up Australia Day: | On the first Sunday of every March, Australians from all walks of life can be found removing rubbish from our beaches, parks, roadsides, rivers and bushland. Hundreds of thousands of people collect unsightly and polluting rubbish from our fragile environments. Clean Up Australia Day is firmly entrenched in the Australian environmental calendar and as an apolitical, non-profit community effort, Clean Up Australia Day is an event in which everyone can participate. It is the community event the largest annual environmental campaign in Australia. |
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| Keep Australia Beautiful Week: | The week of the 1st to the 7th 2003. |
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| Guest speaker(s): | Currently there are no guest speaker lined up to talk to the environment group, but stay tuned in case of an update in the near future. |
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| Belgrave Lake park tree planting: | Text here |
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| World Environment day: | World Environment Day is commemorated each year on 5th June. The United Nations created this day to promote worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action to ensure that the environment remains at the top of the global agenda. WED provides an excellent opportunity to translate that connection into action. |
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| Clean up Australia day: | Text here |
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| Frog Pond: | Text here |
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| National environment conference: | On September 7 - 9, 2001 at the University of Melbourne Australia's national and state community environment organisations hosted the National Environment Conference, and invited all citizens all around Australia to attend and contribute their experiences, ideas and energy. Through this conference environmentalists have raised awareness of issues, and established language and standards which are being adopted (with varying degrees of integrity) by corporations and governments. |
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