BREAKING NEWS: Milestone for nature protection as Andrews Government announces new national parks

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...

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 […]...

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...

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. […]...

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...

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 […]...

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 […]...

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...

VNPA held a Special General Meeting to alter our constitution to keep our governance rules updated on Thursday 30 July, 2026. The changes to the constitution do not change the […]...

MEDIA RELEASE 18 June 2026 | Parliament is about to vote on legislation that would create a new land access panel with no independent oversight and no legal duty to […]...