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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...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | 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...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | A small step in the right direction, but not far enough to address the extentf species decline in Victoria. The Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 (FFG Act) is the key piece...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | Our Nature Conservation Campaigner Shannon Hurley rallies the community to speak out against the industrialisation of Westernport Bay. For the past couple of years, AGL’s...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | AJ Morton, scuba divingusiness owner of Dive2U, and Shannon Hurley, Victorian National Parks Association, reveal how one of Victoria’s greatest underwater spectacles could...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | A vision from the past becomes a new plan, writes Meryl Brown Tobin. Then In 1996, 1,139 Bass Coast Shire locals and visitors signed a petition for a new national park fronting...

Hard-hooved animals are not native to Australia, and many of our native plants and animals are threatened by their impacts. Feral horses, pigs, goats, camels and deer are now found throughout the...

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...