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Cracking the new fire code

PARK WATCH Article September 2025 | The new bushfire code takes small steps but leaves big gaps, says Matt Ruchel, Executive Director Victoria’s Code of Practice for Bushfire Management on Public...

Action: make our new parks official

TAKE ACTION | We’re so close to getting new national and conservation parks in central west Victoria! The Wombat-Lerderderg, Mount Buangor and Pyrenees national parks (and conservation parks)...

Incredible news for long-awaited new central west national parks

NEWS 10 September 2025 | This morning legislation for new central west national parks and conservation reserves was tabled in Victorian Parliament! Nature conservation and community groups are...

The Wombat Forest at Nolans Crossing (Sandy Scheltema)

Historic nature milestone: long-awaited new national parks legislation tabled in Victoria

MEDIA RELEASE | 10 September 2025 The creation of the Wombat-Lerderderg, Mount Buangor and Pyrenees national parks and other conservation reserves will protect tens of thousands of hectares of...

Central west parks

TAKE ACTION | The forests of the central westre extraordinary. They’re refuges for wildlifend people, places of connection to Country for First Nations communities. These forestsnd woodlands...

Victorian Government slammed for opening national parks to deer hunters

MEDIA RELEASE 10 July 2025 | The Victorian National Parks Association, Invasive Species Council and Environment East Gippsland have slammed the Allan Government’s decision to open 130,000...

Mason Falls through the trees in Kinglake National Park

Labor dumps popular national park plan after union lobbying

MEDIA RELEASE 4 July 2025 | The Allan Labor Government has dumped long-standing plans for a new Great Forest National Park in Victoria’s Central Highlands after Electrical Trades Union lobbying....

Create the Great Forest National Park

TAKE ACTION | The towering Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands are a refuge. Tiny, Critically Endangered Leadbeater’s Possums, Greater Gliders and Powerful, Sooty and Masked Owls all...

Landslide for Labor, but what about nature?

PARK WATCH Article June 2025 | With the 2025 federalection done and dusted, Matt Ruchel, Executive Director, asks how did nature fare in the mix of culture wars and economic policies? During the...

Grampians National Park Gariwerd, Briggs Bluff. Photo: Paul Schliebs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 AU)

Former park rangers unite for nature

PARK WATCH Article June 2025 | The Victorian Protected Areas Council (VPAC) is dedicated to connecting park managers and protecting national parks, says Felicity Brooke Former Victorian park managers...