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Our parks under attack in a swarm of spin

PARK WATCH Article March 2025 | Executive Director, Matt Ruchel, says the Victorian Government’s approach to parks and public land management is veering into dangerous territory Slashing funding,...

Native forest logging loophole puts wildlife at risk

MEDIA RELEASE 28 February 2025 | A loophole in Victoria’s planning laws is allowing widespread native forest logging on private land, undermining the state’s 2024 ban on public forest logging...

Outrageous destruction of precious Melbourne grassland after governments’ collective protection failure

MEDIA RELEASE 25 February 2025 | An irreplaceable grassland in Melbourne’s west has been bulldozed, with authorities across all levels of government failing to protect it despite being aware of...

Stop cuts to marine protection

TAKE ACTION | Fisheries officers are the guardians of our ocean. And their numbers are about to be slashed. The Victorian Government are about to halve fishery officers. Unless we […]...

Briggs Bluff, Grampians-Gariwerd National Park (Photo: Paul Schliebs - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 AU)

Nature conservation reviews

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Cuts to fisheries officers could spell disaster for Victoria’s marine life

MEDIA RELEASE 20 February 2025 | Cuts to fisheries officers could spell disaster for Victoria’s marine life Conservation group the Victorian National Parks Association (VNPA) has warned...

Protect our critically endangered grasslands

TAKE ACTION | The grassy plains that once covered a third of Victoria were home to Bettongs, Eastern Quolls and Pig-footed Bandicoots. They shared these native prairies with White-footed Rabbit-rats...

Create our central west parks once and for all!

TAKE ACTION | Tell your elected representatives to give our landscapes and rare wildlife the protection they promised. Four years ago the Victorian Government said they’d enshrine 60,000...

Halt Victoria’s extinction crisis

TAKE ACTION | Since colonisation, 54 of Victoria’s plants and animals have been driven to extinction. Four years ago the Auditor-General delivered a scathing report of the Victorian...

Minister: Give wildlife habitats proper oversight

TAKE ACTION | Forest Fire Management Victoria is tearing up nature’s complex and fragile web of life. Their operations ignore the latest science and are often done in the dark. […]...