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PARK WATCH December 2018 | A recently announced proposal for a new Great Ocean Road authority will weaken national park protection says our Executive Director Matt Ruchel and Park Protection...

PARK WATCH December 2018 | The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service banned its ecologists from attending a November conference on the impacts of Kosciuszko’s feral horses. That didn’t...

PARK WATCH December 2018  Ben Courtice reports back on a conference about one of Victoria’s most threatened natural environments.  Werribee lies in the heart of Melbourne’s western grassy...

MEDIA RELEASE  10 December 2018 | This December marks the fifty-year anniversary since the declaration of the Little Desert National Park, after a historic campaign that changed the political...

NEWS UPDATE 23 November 2018 | Looking after our natural heritage is a key state responsibility, but the major parties have mostly ignored its existence, and released very little in the way of...

TAKE ACTION | Back in August many new protections of public land to protect our beautiful forests of the central west were announced by the Victorian Environment Assessment Council (VEAC).  You can...

MEDIA RELEASE 16 November 2018 | The Andrews Labor announcement today for a significant boost in investment to rebuild campgrounds in our parks system, funding for conservation volunteers, a new...

MEDIA RELEASE 16 November 2018 | This summer hundreds of divers and snorkelers will once again take to the water as part the Greattorian Fish Count, the largest marine citizen science event in...

MEDIA RELEASE 15 November 2018 | Both major parties are missing in action when it comes to nature and conservation policy according to Victoria’s five leading environmental groups who have come...

MEDIA RELEASE  8 November 2018 | A joint message from the Landcare Victoria Inc., Victorian Environment Friends Network and Victorian National Parks Association. Future governments need to commit to...