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Park Watch

Park Watch is our quarterly, colour magazine and is sent to members free of charge.

It keeps readers up-to-date with the current issues facing Victoria's national parks and includes stories written by experts in their field. Park Watch also provides excellent people profiles, book reviews and special offers for members.

  • Articles and photos for Park Watch can be sent to editor Michael Howes on (03) 9347 5188 or email michaelh@vnpa.org.au
  • Recent editions cost $7 and can be bought from our office, Level 3, 60 Leicester Street, Carlton 3053, or by phoning (03) 9347 5188. Please have your credit card details ready.
  • Subscribe online. For just $35 a year you will receive four quarterly issues mailed directly to your door.

 

Inside our latest edition

The March 2012 issue of Park Watch is jam-packed with nature conservation news.

And to help promote this edition of Park Watch we've made one of the stories freely available online.

Of course, you still have to be buy your own copy of the magazine to read all of our great stories, or else you can join the VNPA and receive it for free as part of your membership package.

Online feature story

 

Inside the full edition

  • 'National' parks national in name only, by Matt Ruchel
 
  • The detail is in the devil, by Wendy Roberts
  • Friends of Beware Reef monitor marine life, by Don Love
 
  • Searching for the (bad) stars, by Kimberley Millers
  • Needed - a conservation vision for Victoria, by Nick Roberts
 
  • 'The friendliest fish in the sea', by Ann Strunks
  • 'As if for a thousand years': 40 years of the LCC, celebrated by Deirdre Slattery
 
  • VicForests - off to the courts again, by Jill Eastwood
  • The VNPA celebrates 60 years of history, by Don Garden
 
  • Port Campbell's Southern Brown Bandicoot nursery
    at risk, by Marion Manifold
  • Burn target criticism growing fast, by Phil Ingamells
 
  • The Winton Wetlands return, by Brooke Ross
  • Lessons learnt from the ground up, by Karen Alexander
 
  • Tribute: VNPA pioneer Ena Stewart 1916-2011, by Helen Martin
  • VNPA marine campaigns to make a big splash in 2012, by Simon Branigan
 
  • Tribute: Des Quinn 1941-2011, by Geoff Lacey

Regular features

  • From the president
  • In Parks - Mt Pilot National Park
  • Book reviews
  • VNPA BWAG highlights