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March of the Spider Crabs

PARK WATCH June 2020 | AJ Morton, scuba divingusiness owner of Dive2U, and Shannon Hurley, Victorian National Parks Association, reveal how one of Victoria’s greatest underwater spectacles could...

A once in a generation opportunity

PARK WATCH June 2020 | A vision from the past becomes a new plan, writes Meryl Brown Tobin. Then In 1996, 1,139 Bass Coast Shire locals and visitors signed a […]...

Skinny feral horse. Photo: Federation students

Feral horses in national parks

Hard-hooved animals are not native to Australia, and many of our native plants and animals are threatened by their impacts. Feral horses, pigs, goats, camels and deer are now found […]...

It’s an unhappy anniversary for threatened wildlife and frustrated communities in the central west!

MEDIA RELEASE 21 June 2020 | A year can be long time for wildlife facing extinction without protection in national parks from threats like mining and logging. Exactly 12 months […]...

New audit scathing of efforts to protect Victoria’s critically endangered grasslands

MEDIA RELEASE 17 June 2020 | A new Victorian Auditor-General Report is a scathing assessment of the delivery of the Victorian Government’s program to protect critically endangered grasslands....

Wombat caught in illegal snare trap

NEWS 10 June 2020 | In mid-May VNPA campaigner Jordan Crook was called to a gruesome scene at Warramate Hills Nature Conservation Reserve that shocked and sickened him. A bushwalker […]...

Court upholds national park management

MEDIA RELEASE 29 MAY 2020 | Victoria’s Supreme Court has today cleared the way for Parks Victoria to cull feral horses in the Alpine National Park. “This is the second time […]...

Federal Court rules to protect Victoria’s Alpine National Park from feral horses

MEDIA RELEASE 8 MAY 2020 | The Victorian National Parks Association (VNPA) welcomed the Federal Court’s decision today that feral horses on Victoria’s Bogong High Plains were not a protected...

A Greater Refuge for Gliders

Park Watch March 2020 | In the tall trees of the Central West lives a quiet yet enigmatic creature, writes VNPA Nature Conservation Campaigner Jordan Crook. During the day they […]...

Andrews Government late for an important date

PARK WATCH March 2020 | With the Andrews Government missing their deadline to agree to the creation of 60,000 hectares of national parks and reserves, opponents are now lobbying hard to […]...