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MEDIA RELEASE 27 April 2016 | Victoria’s national parks and reserves are in desperate need of a significant injection of funds, and while today’s state budget offers some relief, it...

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 […]...

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 […]...