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Deer strategy has lots of huff and puff, but short on action

MEDIA RELEASE 30 October 2020 | The release of the Victorian Government’s Deer Control Strategy today acknowledges the significant threat deer bring to the state’s biodiversity, water supplies...

New Poll Highlights Growing Need For Nature And Parks Amongst COVID-Fatigued Melbournians

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 […]...

Western Port – a wildlife wonderland at risk

PARK WATCH September 2020 | No one wants Western Port Bay to be turned into an artificial swimming pool, explains campaigner Shannon Hurley. Our beautiful and beloved Western Port Bay […]...

Permanent protection for nature stalls

PARK WATCH September 2020 | We are increasingly alarmed by the Andrews Government’s delay in approving new national parks – especially as it continues to make decisions to the detriment...

Going, going, gone?

PARK WATCH September 2020 | The failures in protecting one of our most critically endangered ecosystems – grasslands – from Melbourne’s ever-increasing urban sprawl is finally being publicly...

Renewed rush to ‘clear’ the way

PARK WATCH September 2020 | The reveal of the failures of the Melbourne Strategic Assessment (see previous article) comes right at a time when the Morrison Government is reviewing our […]...

Getting crabbier

PARK WATCH September 2020 | The spectacular annual Spider Crab aggregation event may have all but been and gone for this year, but that does not mean the campaign to […]...

River Red Gum Parks – designated but dewatered?

PARK WATCH September 2020 | Following Matt Ruchel’s reflection on the tenth anniversary of the Red Gum Parks in the previous edition of Park Watch, Professor Jamie Pittock from The […]...

Traditional Owner joint-management

PARK WATCH September 2020 | Victoria’s go-it-alone approach to Traditional Owner Recognition and Settlement Agreements has made joint management of our national parks the ‘new normal’, says...

Hearings to expose fatal flaws in AGL’s controversial gas project – media backgrounder

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 […]...