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MEDIA RELEASE 20 October 2020 | Nature-starved Melburnians yearn for the bush and new national parks, according to new opinion poll results. A new opinion poll of 1,009 Melburnians over the age of...

MEDIA RELEASE 12 October 2020 | From today AGL’s gas import terminal in Westernport Bay will be put under the microscope over 10 weeks of public hearings, which community and environment groups say...

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 after a milestone...

MEDIA RELEASE 23 September 2020 | Spider crab advocates oppose a reduced bag limit for Australian Giant Spider Crabs, proposed by the Victorian Fisheries Authority, reducing the permitted daily...

NEWS 24 September 2020 | A draft Camping and Access Strategy has been developed for Lake Tyers State Park and it could, or should, be model for managing access to our parks and reserves across...

MEDIA RELEASE 17 August 2020 | One year on from tabling in the Victorian Parliament, an independent expert report recommending better nature protections gathers dust on a Minister’s desk, while...

TAKE ACTION | 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...

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 | 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...

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...