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Conservationists and scientists frustrated over rejection of protecting critically endangered species

MEDIA RELEASE 12 March 2024 | A critically endangered stonefly that lives in Victoria’s alpine region faces extinction after a state government decision, conservationists and scientists have...

Victoria must protect precious wetlands after wind project’s federal rejection

MEDIA RELEASE 8 January 2024 | The Allan Government must urgently put in place strict environmental protections for offshore energy projects after the federal veto of the Port of Hastings […]...

Allan Government must honour promise to legislate new national parks in Victoria’s west

MEDIA RELEASE 17 November 2023 | The Allan Government has been urged to stop taxpayer-funded logging and create promised legislated parks in regional Victoria. Over 70 state, national and...

Community speaks out against rogue logging in precious national park habitat

MEDIA RELEASE | 1 September 2023 Academics, conservationists and community groups will take a stand against Forest Fire Management Victoria facilitating rogue logging of precious national park...

State logger plans could destroy endangered alpine plants

JOINT MEDIA RELEASE | 22 August 2023 Victorian National Parks Association, Victorian Forest Alliance, Friends of Mount Stirling Community nature groups are urging VicForests to ditch plans to log...

Alarming discovery by citizen scientists sparks concerns illegal logging will continue

MEDIA RELEASE 29 June 2023 | Citizen scientists from Wildlife of the Central Highlands (WOTCH) and the Victorian Forest Alliance (VFA) have discovered state-owned logging company VicForests has...

Victorian nature community elated over faster end to native forest logging in the state

MEDIA RELEASE 23 May 2023 | The Victorian National Parks Association (VNPA) has welcomed the announcement of the State Government’s decision to bring forward the end of native forest logging...

Audit says radical changes needed if Victorian Government is to succeed in retaining last 1% of remaining grasslands

MEDIA RELEASE 18 May 2023 | A quietly critical audit of the Victorian Government’s flagship grassland conservation program is calling for major changes to protect some of the state’s most...

Precious marsupial needs urgent protection from extinction

MEDIA RELEASE 30 March 2023 | The Victorian Government has been urged to list the Fat-tailed Dunnart as vulnerable, with the last surviving small marsupial of the state’s volcanic plains […]...

Peak conservation group lodges historic application to save critically endangered insect

MEDIA RELEASE 20 March 2023 | VNPA lodges an historic application to protect the habitat of a critically endangered stonefly, in a move which could set a major precedent for […]...