Park Watch Articles

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...

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 […]...

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 […]...

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 […]...

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...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | This July 2020 marks ten years since the formal declaration of the last major addition to the national parks estate in Victoria. Executive Director Matt […]...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | Nature Conservation Campaigner Jordan Crook on the continued logging in the Central West. The forests and woodlands of Victoria’s west are sometimes referred to as […]...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | The first threatened species detection report has been submitted for the west, shares Nature Conservation Campaigner Jordan Crook....

PARK WATCH June 2020 | Amid the COVID-19 shutdowns in early April, the Victorian and Commonwealth governments re-signed their agreement for logging native forests for a further ten years. By...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | Native forest logging in the West RFA was largely squashed – but it has now returned, Executive Director Matt Ruchel explains....