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Blasting, casting and backsliding as nature heads into an election

PARK WATCH Article September 2026 | Matt Ruchel, Executive Director reports on anlection year that’s shaping up as make-or-break for Victoria’s nature protection There’s certainly an...

Piecing together the puzzle in Western Port Woodlands

PARK WATCH Article September 2026 | The pieces of the jigsaw are starting to fall into place for this iconic landscape, report Jordan Crook, Parks & Nature Campaigner, and Catherine […]...

Iconic Western Port Woodlands bushland returned to nature and community

MEDIA RELEASE 13 August 2026 | Western Port Woodlands Alliance (Save Western Port Woodlands/Victorian National Parks Association/South Gippsland Conservation Society) welcomes a landmark commitment...

Bird flu reaches Western Port Bay, putting Victorian hotspot on alert

MEDIA RELEASE 13 August 2026 | Bird flu (H5N1) was detected in Victoria for the first time on July 30, and there has now been a case confirmed at Clyde […]...

Event: Discussing wildfire management in the Otway forests

Join us in Lorne for a talk on wildfire management in the Otways forests. You’ll hear from Adjunct Associate Professor Philip Zylstra, a fire behaviour scientist from Curtin University and...

Bird Flu in Victoria

H5 bird flu (avian influenza) has been detected in Victoria for the first time. Preliminary testing found the virus in a greater crested tern in Portland, in the state’s south-west. […]...

First H5N1 bird-flu case confirmed in Victoria

MEDIA RELEASE 30 July 2026 | BREAKING: First H5N1 bird-flu case confirmed in Victoria – Conservation groups sound the alarm over state government’s lack of preparedness and urgent need to...

Fresh approach to protecting nature needed by new Victorian Premier

MEDIA RELEASE 29 July 2026 | Victorians for Nature, an alliance of conservation and environment groups, are calling on the new Victorian Premier Ben Carrol to take a fresh approach […]...

Ministers: Don’t erode protections for our parks

TAKE ACTION The Allan government is about to create a new panel with power over public land, but no duty to protect nature. Email your elected reps and tell them […]...

Melbourne has its own grassland bullant and it’s clinging on at just eight known sites

MEDIA RELEASE 14 July 2026 | Grassland bullants Myrmecia nobilis live in the native grasslands of Melbourne. Less than 0.5% of the native grasslands that once stretched from the Yarra River to...