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PARK WATCH March 2020 | Our native plants and animals have had a long and troubled parent-child relationship with fire. It might be becoming an irreconcilable one, writes VNPA Parks Protection...

PARK WATCH March 2020 | Can we control fire with fire? Will more fuel reduction burning really save us and the bush we love? It’s time for a new approach, not […]...

PARK WATCH March 2020 | Short-term economic gain, long-term ecological damage – VNPA Nature Conservation Campaigner John Kotsiaris denounces salvage logging. Victoria is already Australia’s most...

PARK WATCH March 2020 | Nature Conservation Campaigner Shannon Hurley shares the power of persistence in the battle over the Belfast Coastal Reserve. The efforts to protect Warrnambool’s...

PARK WATCH March 2020 | Proposed Great Ocean Road legislation is still unclear, says Phil Ingamells. Tiled boldly into the floor of Victoria’s Parliament House lobby are the words: “Where no...

PARK WATCH March 2020 | New grassland revenue bill passes Parliament. The Melbourne Strategic Assessment (Environment Mitigation Levey) Bill 2019 passed the Victorian Parliament in early February....

The Victorian National Parks Association would like to acknowledge the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the entire Victorian community in so many different ways. We want to reassure […]...

MEDIA RELEASE 21 February 2020 | The Victoria National Parks Association (VNPA) congratulates the Victorian Government and Parks Victoria on the release of th Strategic Action Plan: Protection of...

MEDIA RELEASE 18 February 2020 | This week the Andrews Government is due to respond in Parliament to a major report to protect significant areas of Victoria’s central west forests […]...

Your voice is very important. The Wellsford Forest is home to 32 rare or threatened plants and animals. Hollow-dependent and threatened Brush-tailed Phascogales and Barking Owls have lved here for...