An open letter to Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan
The Victorian Government promised to create new national parks in the west in 2021. Instead of honouring this promise, the forests, rivers and woodlands of the central west are being logged, damaged, degraded.
Creating new national parks and phasing out destructive native forest logging isn’t only about protecting wildlife and beautiful places. It’s about clean air and water, a liveable climate and people’s livelihoods.
We call on the Premier to formally protect these natural areas and act immediately to halt rogue logging our native forests and woodlands.
Add your name to our open letter, representing hundreds of thousands of Victorians.
Because parks aren’t created until they’re legislated.
Signatories to the open letter:
- ACF Community Bendigo District
- Australian Conservation Foundation
- Australian Forests and Climate Alliance
- Australian Plants Society
- Bacchus Marsh Platypus Alliance
- Ballarat Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation
- Ballarat Region Wildlife Rescue and Advocacy
- BEAM Mitchell Environment Group
- Bendigo and District Environment Council
- Bendigo Climate Alliance
- Bendigo Family Nature Club
- Bendigo Field Naturalists Club
- Bendigo Sustainability Group
- Biolinks Alliance
- BirdLife Castlemaine District Branch
- Blackwood & Barrys Reef Landcare Group
- Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club Inc
- Clarkefield & District Farm/Landcare
- Professor David Lindenmayer
- Doctors for the Environment Australia
- The Entomological Society of Victoria
- Environment Victoria
- Environmental Justice Australia
- Field Naturalists Club of Ballarat
- Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- Friends of Daly Nature Reserve
- Friends of Kooyoora
- Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum
- Friends of Native Forests Enfield
- Friends of Nyah Vinifera Forest
- Friends of Riley Street Natural Reserve – Bendigo Landcare group
- Friends of Steele Creek
- Friends of the Box-Iron Bark Forests
- Friends of the Brisbane Ranges
- Friends of the Earth
- Friends of the Whipstick
- Friends of Werribee Gorge & Long Forest Mallee
- Gippsland Environment Group
- Gordon Wildlife Alliance
- Greater Dandenong Environment Group
- Greening of Riddell
- Hepburn Wind
- Lighter Footprints
- Macedon and Mount Macedon Landcare Group
- Macedon Ranges Field Naturalists Club
- Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group
- Malmsbury District Landcare
- Melbourne Bushwalkers Club
- Monique Ryan MP
- Moonee Valley Sustainability
- Moorabool Environment Group
- Mount Cole and Pyrenees Nature Group
- The National Trust Australia (Victoria)
- Nature Network
- Newham & District Landcare Group
- Newlands Friends of the Forest
- Riddells Creek Landcare
- Rob Gell AM, President, The Royal Society of Victoria
- Save our Strathbogie Forest
- Southern Otway Landcare Network
- Trentham Sustainability Group
- Victorian Forest Alliance
- Victorian Mountain Tramping Club
- Victorian National Parks Association
- Warringal Conservation Society
- The Waterways Network
- Wellsford Forest Friends and Landcare Group
- Werribee River Association
- Western Highway Conservation Group
- White gums Australia
- The Wilderness Society
- Wildlife Carers for Protection of Habitat
- Wildlife of The Central Highlands
- Wombat Action Group
- Wombat Forestcare Inc.
- WWF Australia
