Who cares for this coast? It’s not a question that necessarily springs to mind when you’re driving along the Great Ocean Road, but more than a dozen organisations recently came together to consider exactly that – asking what priority conservation and research actions are needed to safeguard the region’s coastal and marine environments into the future.

A diversity of fire regimes, including low-intensity mosaic burning, is increasing plant diversity in the foothill forests of the Otways, according to research by the University of Melbourne.