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Victoria’s new threatened species laws coming into force

PARK WATCH June 2020 | A small step in the right direction, but not far enough to address the extent of species decline in Victoria. The Flora and Fauna Guarantee […]...

Too sensitive and precious to risk

PARK WATCH June 2020 | Our Nature Conservation Campaigner Shannon Hurley rallies the community to speak out against the industrialisation of Westernport Bay. For the past couple of years, AGL’s...

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...