If you support the name change from Rosebud West to Capel Sound ….you MUST vote
NEWS DESK
On 7 December Council sent letters to all residents and ratepayers of Postcode 3940 inviting us to vote on whether or not we support the name-change.
Plovers’
Beach protection: Wooden shelters help protect three vulnerable hooded plover chicks at Rye back beach while their parents stand guard outside. One of the chicks has since disappeared. Picture: Glenn Ehmke. Right: A sand castle built around a nesting red-capped plover at Shoreham. Pictures: Mark Lethlean
Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au PROTECTORS of the endangered hooded plover are documenting senseless acts by beachgoers that are threatening breeding birds. The plovers each year struggle to breed on Mornington Peninsula beaches with an ever decreasing number ever of their chicks ever taking flight. Dr Grainne Maguire of BirdLife Australia’s beach-nesting birds’ team said data shows that without preventative action hooded plovers will be extinct in the region “in the next 25 years”. “There are a suite of threats these birds face. A number of these threats are natural, but it is the human modifications of habitat - weeds and access points - and predator systems such as introduced foxes, super abundant ravens, gulls and magpies and the impacts of disturbance, direct crushing and predation by domestic pets, that are tipping the balance,” she said. Members of the Friends of the Hooded Plover group have this season erected fences around nests and placed notices asking that the birds be left alone. Other groups such as the Hastings-based Willum Warrain Aboriginal Association have built shelters under which the plovers and their chicks can seek refuge. But as soon as the latest breeding season was underway it soon became obvious that thoughtless humans were one of the main dangers threatening the survival of hooded plovers and other small ground nesting seabirds. Diane Lewis said a woman approached about “allowing her dog to run all over the beach and into the dunes” claimed not to have seen Parks Victoria’s dog restriction signs. Ms Lewis, president of the Friends of the Hooded Plover group, had been at Rye surf beach watching 12-day-old plover chicks.
Some people believe it is only necessary to return your vote if you oppose the change. They believe Council will consider anyone not returning their Survey form as being supporters of the change. This is NOT the case. Council will only count the Survey forms they receive. If you have an opinion you must return your vote to Council …otherwise, how will they know what you think? If you have misplaced your Survey form contact Council (1300 850 600) – voting closes on 5 February. For more information on the name change visit website below. This notice has been prepared, placed and paid for by residents who support the name change (www.capelsound3940.org).
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