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MEDIA RELEASE 17 March 2016 | A blueprint for protecting nature released by the Victorian Government today is a step in the right direction, but the state’s natural environment needs […]...

MEDIA RELEASE 26 February 2016 | More than 350 volunteer citizen scientists donned masks and snorkels to record fish species at 44 sites along Victoria’s coastline as part of the […]...

MEDIA RELEASE 22 February 2016 | Our native plants and animals are under stress from climate change, and Victoria’s natural areas may never be the same again. But there are […]...

MEDIA RELEASE 5 January 2016 | The management of Victoria’s national parks and nature conservation reserves is in serious decline and can only be rectified through a major boost in […]...

Native vegetation on its knees Imagine a landscape without trees, native animals or birdsong. No one would want to live in a place like that. But parts of Victoria, the […]...

Every great city has a great park; the Moolap Coastal Park could be Geelong’s. And now is the time to create it: the Cheetham Saltworks and Alcoa’s Point Henry aluminium […]...

Victoria’s network of marine national parks and sanctuaries dots the coastline from Portland in the far southwest to picturesque Mallacoota near the border with NSW. The network is made up...

An invasion of commercially trained horses, off-leash dogs, pests and weeds and illegal camping are some of the problems facing the Belfast Coastal Reserve. But managers can’t deal with these...

A fragile coastal reserve in southwest Victoria has been invaded by racehorse trainers using it as a ‘race track’. They’re tearing up the beaches and dunes and jeopardising the future...

The Napthine Government had big plans for the Port of Hastings, a massive container port that would have risked Western Port’s natural values. Those plans were put on hold with […]...