January 2023 - Video from WINNEWS: Delays in Report on Coastal Erosion

Frustration as the dunes continue to disappear, while Inverloch awaits a government report that's been delayed by two years, see: Video from WINNEWS (1.33 mins).

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October 2022 - SGCS Supports Dune Renourishment Action at Inverloch Surf Beach

South Gippsland Conservation Society (SGCS) supports the Inverloch Surf Beach dune renourishment option outlined in the Coastal Hazard Assessment summaries that were recently released by the Victorian Government’s Cape to Cape Resilience Project team.

Based on the findings of the Coastal Hazard Assessment consultants and SGCS’s own research, dune renourishment, combined with groynes, represents the best means of maintaining the environmental, cultural and community values of the Surf Beach and its dunes at Inverloch in the face of the increasing impacts of climate change.

SGCS’s Inverloch Coastal Resilience Project leader, Philip Heath, said: ‘It is critical to the future of the Surf Beach, the ecological and cultural values of the vegetated dunes and the safety of adjoining residences, that the remaining dunes are protected. Based on information contained in the summaries and in discussions with the Cape to Cape team, increasing the resilience of the remaining dunes by renourishment, combined with constructing one or more groynes to hold the sand on the Surf Beach, provide the best means of sustaining the Surf Beach in its current, highly-valued form.

The other short-listed engineering adaptation actions assessed in the summary all have serious negative consequences – an extended rock wall would result in the lowering of sand levels and eventual loss of the Surf Beach, while the nearshore breakwater option would completely change the character of the Surf Beach.’

Read the full SGCS response to the recently released Cape to Cape Resilience Project summaries.

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February 2022 - 'Rally Round Our Dunes!'

Hundreds of people registered their concern for the future of Inverloch Surf Beach at our recent 'Rally Round Our Dunes!'. A short film of the event has been produced and is available here.
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• The Rally attracted significant media interest, with front page coverage in the Sentinel-Times, on WIN News, ABC Gippsland News and 3mFM radio.
• Background to the Rally is provided in a short Q&A here, which describes the rapid and sustained coastline erosion that has occurred at Inverloch Surf Beach since 2012, as well as the environmental and community values that are being impacted.
• Our refreshed Inverloch Coastal Resilience Project exhibition continues to be on display at the Bunurong Environment Centre. The petition calling for action from all levels of Government has attracted around 400 signatures to date and will be presented to elected representatives in early 2022.

See all ICRP reports and documentaries here.

Click image for ‘Repatriation’ video, a ceremony of contrition and forgiveness in which Aboriginal artefacts were respectfully returned to their rightful owners, the Traditional Custodians of Bunurong Country, on 26 Jan 2022. Sonia Weston received the artefacts on behalf of the Bunurong Land Council.