THE 30th annual National Tree Day is coming up on Sunday 26 July. All across Australia, people will be joining together to connect with nature and care for Country by planting trees and revegetating important areas that will help wildlife and nature to thrive. Here on the Mornington Peninsula, the Sunshine Reserve Conservation Group have been working hard for 10 months to prepare the Upper Sunshine site for this year’s planting. Invasive, prickly blackberries have been removed, other weeds such as watsonia, boneseed and arum lilies have been dug out, mulch has been laid, and the site is now ready…
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BUSHLAND at Sunshine Reserve in Mt Martha has been marred by an act of vandalism, leaving conservationists devastated.Several trees and native shrubs including old swamp paperbarks were hacked with axes, pushed over, and destroyed in what is being described as a deliberate and senseless attack on one of the area’s most cherished natural spaces.Volunteers of the Sunshine Reserve Conservation Group Inc discovered the damage on 21 September.“A mature stand of melaleuca swamp paperbark and sweet bursaria were recklessly pushed over and axed and thrown in the creek,” said Pia Spreen, Mornington project leader at Naturelinks Landscape Management.“Swamp paperbark is a…