Nature in the next term

PARK WATCH December 2018 | VNPA Executive Director Matt Ruchel reviews environmental policy in the state election.  Congratulations to the re-elected Andrews Government, with their massively...
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Let’s protect it forever

PARK WATCH December 2018 | We are one step closer to protecting Victoria’s central western forests, says our Nature Conservation Campaigner Shannon Hurley. VNPA has advocated for the protection of...
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A ‘peak’ of interest

PARK WATCH December 2018 | Windingrough temperate forested peaks and gullies in Victoria’s central west is one of our state’s most-loved and accessible bushwalks,e Beeripmo Walk. Walkers...
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Riverside Rescue

PARK WATCH December 2018 | Riparian action progress needs to continue according to our Executive Director Matt Ruchel. Riparian land land which runs along river, creek, wetlands and estuaries...
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Great Ocean Road national parks land grab

PARK WATCH December 2018 | A recently announced proposal for a new Great Ocean Road authority will weaken national park protection says our Executive Director Matt Ruchel and Park Protection...
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Evidence should rule

PARK WATCH December 2018 | The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service banned its ecologists from attending a November conference on the impacts of Kosciuszko’s feral horses. That didn’t...
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Photo: It's a Wildlife

Respect, protect and reconnect Melbourne’s grasslands

PARK WATCH December 2018 | Ben Courtice reports back on a conference about one of Victoria’s most threatened natural environments.  Werribee lies in the heart of Melbourne’s western grassy...
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Nature ignored in state election

NEWS UPDATE 23 November 2018 | Looking after our natural heritage is a key state responsibility, but the major parties have mostly ignored its existence, and released very little in […]...
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