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Mynas add up to a major threat THEY can be entertaining to watch, have an uncanny knack of avoiding being run over by vehicles and are well adapted to, well, adapting. They chatter, tend to travel in family groups and are aerial acrobats. But no matter the attributes that can be given to Indian mynas, there’s no getting away from their devastating effect on whichever environment they choose to inhabit (or invade). Officially recognised as one of the world’s worst pests, the mynas are about to face a program of eradication on the Mornington Peninsula. “Mynas no minor matter� on Page 11 explains how the trap is about to be set. Picture: Yanni
Uni reserves a place at Pt Nepean Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au THE state government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Melbourne University to establish a marine research centre in part of the heritage listed former quarantine station despite a master plan for the future use of Point Nepean National Park not being due for release until later this year. The agreement means that the university will receive $2.1m over six
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years from the National Environmental Science Program towards establishing a National Centre for Coasts and Climate (NCCC). The university says it will provide a $3m “matching investment�. Vice-chancellor Professor Glyn Davis said the university was “happy to be moving forward with more active discussions about its plans for the site�. “The Point Nepean National Park provides a unique place-based learning and research environment,� Prof Davis said. “The university hopes to contribute
to the future of the park, and looks forward to working with government and with the community in exploring this development.� The state and federal governments left it up to the university to issue a news release about the proposal which it says is “still subject to the community consultation process that will inform the Point Nepean Master Plan�. The Victorian National Parks Association’s project manager Chris Smyth said giving the university “preferred occupier� status was pre-empting the master planning process.
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Victoria “that will inform the Point Nepean master plan that is currently underway�. Ms Neville said the federal government’s $2.1 million would have been lost if the state had not come to an agreement with the university. She said the money was “going to be taken off the table at this federal budget�. “If the community does not support the university’s proposal, it won’t go ahead, which is clear in the MoU,� Ms Neville said. Continued Page 8
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Mr Smyth said previous proposals for Point Nepean by the university had been flawed and gave notice that the VNPA would “vigorously oppose any similar proposal�. “Preferred uses should be those that are open to public scrutiny and maximise benefit to the national park, not those for which the public has been sidelined in the process,� he said. The state Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water, Lisa Neville, said the agreement with Melbourne University would not preempt outcomes of the process by Parks
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