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Don’t let crappy planning laws kill our legacy grasslands

NEWS 1 August 2022 | In Melbourne’s bulging suburbs high quality endangered grasslands and the habitat of threatened animals are going under the wheels of bulldozers, with many high conservation...

A real vision for iconic Western Port Woodlands

Update: Public submissions closed at 5pm on Friday 29 April 2023. Recognising the importance of the Western Port Woodlands Recently an important draft policy on the future vision for the […]...

They’re logging your promised national park

If a tree falls in the Wombat Forest, Gayle Osborne of Wombat Forestcare will hear it. In the last few days, she's heard and seen some disturbing activity....

Call the minister: don’t let VicForests pulp our promised park

Your voice is incredibly important. Use it to call out VicForests. Under the guise of ‘salvage logging’ rules, VicForests is expanding logging in the proposed Wombat-Lerderderg National...

Logging in promised national park smashes forest and Andrews’ commitments

MEDIA RELEASE 12 April 2022 | VicForests’ newly released plans to salvage log parts of proposed Wombat-Lerderderg National Park reveal dramatic increase of coupes in and around Wombat...

Yarra Ranges National Park thrown under the mountain bike

PARK WATCH Article March 2022 | Poorly planned tracks should not be allowed to fragment wildlife habitat and dilute nature protection, says Campaigner Jordan Crook. The prime purpose of […]...

Still standing

PARK WATCH Article March 2022 | The big trees of Wellsford Forest, on the land of the Dja Dja Wurrung, are well known to the locals who have advocated for […]...

Majority rules – we want protection, not development, of national parks

PARK WATCH Article March 2022 | In the lead-up to this year’s federal election we polled the community on how they feel about national parks and nature protection. Nature Conservation […]...

Commitment issues

PARK WATCH Article March 2022 | It doesn’t matter how many times you say it; you need to deliver it before you can claim it, writes Executive Director Matt Ruchel. […]...

The broken, promised grasslands of Melbourne

PARK WATCH Article March 2022 | Adrian Marshall, Grassy Plains Network Facilitator, gives a detailed overview of the situation for these much-loved but poorly treated grasslands. The grasslands in...