Water Activities

Coastcare

Coastcare is a program of the Commonwealth Government's Natural Heritage Trust in partnership with State/Territory and Local Governments.

Our Coastcare program encourages all Australians to keep our beaches, dunes and estuaries clean and healthy. Coastcare is a national program that helps local people protect and look after the coast areas and the animals and plants that live around them. This includes helping to fix areas that have been damaged so animals and plant will return and grow again. Coastcare actions in your state or territory may be called Coastwest (WA), Coast Action (VIC) or Dunecare (NSW).

At Point Impossible in Victoria, Coastcare volunteer Bill Pemberton, from the Surfrider Foundation, was deeply concerned after finding that the whole area was overgrown with weeds and eroding fast. The dunes were being trampled on and there was rubbish strewn all over the area. Bill and his volunteers established a walking track to a stone lookout to guide walkers, and two sets of steps to allow access to the beach without damage to the dunes. Now, swimmers, surfers, fishermen and walkers can enjoy the area without damaging the environment.

In Tasmania, a community group in Burnie is helping to care for Little Penguins, the smallest of all penguin species. Little Penguins have lived along the narrow coastal strip at Burnie for many years. As more people came to live in Burnie and the railway line, roads and houses were built the Little Penguins needed protection from being run over by cars and trains. The Camdale to Cooee Point Coastcare Group built a fence to stop them from crossing the road and the railway line. The Coastcare group also made about 30 artificial burrows for the Little Penguins to nest in because so many of their nesting sites had been lost as people moved in.

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