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Shoo or Shoot? Reviewing the Wildlife Act

Most Victorians assume our state Wildlife Act exists to protect wildlife. In reality, the Wildlife Act of 1975 largely exists to protect exotic game animals (like deer) and regulate the […]...

World Environment Day: Recreate, Reimagine & Restore

TAKE ACTION | The theme for 2021’s World Environment Day is Ecosystem Restoration: Recreate. Reimagine. Restore. Despite once again spending it in lockdown, we’ve highlighted three...

More than a word: Indigenous Joint Management

National Reconciliation Week: 27 May – 3 June 2021 The year 2021 marks twenty years of Reconciliation Australia and almost three decades of Australia’s formal reconciliation process. The...

State logging imminent near largest trees on mainland Australia

MEDIA RELEASE 30 April 2021 | Victorian National Parks Association and the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) statement. On the east side of Mount Baw Baw, some of the biggest […]...

An open letter to the Andrews’ Government: Less talk, more protection for nature

MEDIA RELEASE 27 April 2021 | Over forty state, national and international groups representing hundreds of thousands of Victorians, call on the Andrews’ Government to accept recommendations for new...

An open letter to the Andrews Government: It’s time to act for nature in Central Victoria

TAKE ACTION | A mighty collaboration of groups are using a series of full page ads in six papers across key regional centres (Bendigo, Ballarat, Castlemaine, Moorabool, Daylesford, Macedon) to...

Help the tiny Tooarrana and other alpine wildlife survive the hooves of feral horses

TAKE ACTION | The Tooarrana and other alpine wildlife needs your help to survive the devastating impact of feral horses. Over 5,000 horses are trashing wetlands and moss beds in Victoria’s...

Yay for Western Port Bay!

BREAKING | Congratulations to everyone helping save our beloved bay! ...

Western Port community rejoices as AGL’s controversial gas terminal rejected

MEDIA RELEASE 30 March 2021 | The Western Port Bay community is celebrating today after Victorian Planning Minister Richard Wynne rejected a proposed gas import terminal at Crib Point (see […]...

Speak up to stop AGL dumping toxic waste water in Westernport Bay

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is currently considering AGL’s application to discharge toxic wastewater into Westernport Bay. This is through the granting of a ‘works...