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The Wombat Forest at Nolans Crossing (Sandy Scheltema)

Historic nature milestone: long-awaited new national parks legislation tabled in Victoria

MEDIA RELEASE | 10 September 2025 The creation of the Wombat-Lerderderg, Mount Buangor and Pyrenees national parks and other conservation reserves will protect tens of thousands of hectares of...

Victorian Government slammed for opening national parks to deer hunters

MEDIA RELEASE 10 July 2025 | The Victorian National Parks Association, Invasive Species Council and Environment East Gippsland have slammed the Allan Government’s decision to open 130,000...

Mason Falls through the trees in Kinglake National Park

Labor dumps popular national park plan after union lobbying

MEDIA RELEASE 4 July 2025 | The Allan Labor Government has dumped long-standing plans for a new Great Forest National Park in Victoria’s Central Highlands after Electrical Trades Union lobbying....

Allan Government slammed over years of broken national parks promises

MEDIA RELEASE 24 June 2025 | Four years after the Victorian Government pledged to create 60,000 hectares of new national parks and conservation reserves in the central west, community and […]...

Community groups call for urgent protection of living gem

MEDIA RELEASE 5 June 2025 |ommunity groups and conservationists have welcomed recognition of the Western Port Woodlands in the Victorian Government’s long-awaited land use blueprint for the Bass...

Half of Victoria’s Fisheries Officers Face the Axe Despite Community Outcry

MEDIA RELEASE 29 May 2025 | Victoria’s busiest marine waterways are left at risk to poaching and illegal fishing as the state government presses ahead with short-sighted cuts. A plan […]...

Victoria’s national parks need urgent budget boost 50 years after landmark laws

MEDIA RELEASE 16 May 2025 | Victoria’s national parks need urgent budget boost 50 years after landmark laws On the 50th anniversary of Victoria’s landmark National Parks Act, conservationists are...

New Parks Victoria leadership must refocus on nature protection

MEDIA RELEASE 1 May 2025 | Conservation groups welcome new leadership appointments at Parks Victoria while urging the agency must urgently refocus on protecting nature as its core business....

Pod of burrunan dolphins forms a 'fishing wall' to herd fish near the proposed site of a new jetty at the Quarantine Station.

Cuts to Victorian fisheries officers unites conservationists and fishers

MEDIA RELEASE 16 April 2025 | Victoria’s leading conservation, recreationalnd commercial fishing organisations have united to oppose the State Government’s plan toxe fisheries officers. They...

Feral deer in Western Victoria need the boot after bushfires

MEDIA RELEASE 1 April 2025 | Feral deer are having a field day trashing and trampling the Grampians (Gariwerd) and Little Desert national parks and Mount Buangor State Park as […]...