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NEWS 27 July 2020 | The extensive exposé in The Age finally exposed the many failures in protecting one of our most critically endangered ecosystems – grasslands, grassy woodlands and grassy...

TAKE ACTION | Victoria is the most cleared state in Australia and has the highest number of threatened species by subregion in the country – yet we still fortunate to have an amazing diversity of...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | This July 2020 marks ten years since the formal declaration of theast major addition to the national parks estate in Victoria. Executive Director Matt Ruchel reflects on the...

IN THE MEDIA Opinion piece published in The Weekly Times 29 June 2020 | We need to separate myth from reality to effectively manageoria’s Alpine National Park, argues Phil Ingamells of the...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | Nature Conservation Campaigner Jordan Crook on the continued logging in the Central West. The forests and woodlands of Victoria’s west are sometimes referred to as the...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | The first threatened species detection report has been submitted for the west, shares Nature Conservation Campaigner Jordan Crook. In late March (pre-COVID-19 restrictions)...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | Amid the COVID-19 shutdowns in early April, the Victorian and Commonwealth governments re-signed their agreement for logging native forests for a further ten years. By...

Native forest logging in the West RFA was largely squashed – but it has now returned, Executive Director Matt Ruchel explains....

PARK WATCH June 2020 | A Federal Court judge has ruled that Victoria is free to continue a cull of feral horses in the Alpine National Park. It’s a decision with lessons for us all, says...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | VNPA Executive Director Matt Ruchel guides us through the review of the EBPC Act. The main piece of national environmental law, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity...