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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 Westernport Bay!

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

Westernport community rejoices as AGL’s controversial gas terminal rejected

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

Time for feral horses to leave the Alpine National Park alone

MEDIA RELEASE 26 March 2021 | Conservation groups back plans for action on feral horses in the Alpine National Park. These hard-hooved grazers are wrecking the park’s highly vulnerable alpine peat...

The future of our beautiful bay

UPDATE: The Victorian Government rejected AGL’s proposal for a gas import terminal in Westernport Bay on 30 April. Latest information here. Latest information here PARK WATCH March 2021 | The...

PARK WATCH March 2021 | Investment in nature protection provides great economic benefits, explains Executive Director Matt Ruchel. We know the forests of the Central West are home to 370 threatened...

What’s that? The national environmental laws don’t work?

PARK WATCH March 2021 | Who would have thought? Asks Executive Director Matt Ruchel. “Ineffective”, leading to “piecemeal decisions”, “outdated”, and “not fit to address current or...

Victoria needs leadership for biodiversity

PARK WATCH March 2021 | Proper management of biodiversity requires strong scienceeadership, says Nature Conservation Campaigner John Kotsiaris. Over theast twelve months, Victorians have heard a...

Who is Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park there for?

PARK WATCH March 2021 | Parks Protection Campaigner Phil Ingamells takes a look at the Greater Gariwerd Landscape draft management plan. After a bizarre group of bare-chested neo-Nazis stormed...

After the fires

PARK WATCH March 2021 | We must protect our forest refuges. By Jordan Crook and Matt Ruchel. In a year where the word ‘unprecedented’ was overused to the point of losing meaning, the 2019-20...