The five-yearly Victorian State of the Environment (SoE) 2018 report by Commissioner Dr Gillian Sparkes was publicly released on 19 March 2019.
It has a wealth of information, with comments on our Bay and the Yarra River.
Unfortunately, it shows that the Yarra continues to decline in quality and is getting more polluted – and of course this ends up in the Bay.
The following links below are to 1. the Age newspaper’s summary of the report on the Yarra 2.the full report; 3. the state of the Bays; and 4 and 5 the summary of the indicator report card and all indicators.
- https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/tonnes-of-litter-fished-from-yarra-every-year-as-native-species-suffer-20190320-p515u7.html
- https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/commissioner-targets-key-environmental-challenges-for-victoria-over-the-coming-decade
- https://www.ces.vic.gov.au/sotb
- https://www.ces.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/SoE-2018-indicator-report-card.pdf
- https://www.ces.vic.gov.au/reports/state-environment-2018/all-indicators
