Park Watch Articles

PARK WATCH June 2020 | AJ Morton, scuba divingusiness owner of Dive2U, and Shannon Hurley, Victorian National Parks Association, reveal how one of Victoria’s greatest underwater spectacles could...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | A vision from the past becomes a new plan, writes Meryl Brown Tobin. Then In 1996, 1,139 Bass Coast Shire locals and visitors signed a […]...

Park Watch March 2020 | In the tall trees of the Central West lives a quiet yet enigmatic creature, writes VNPA Nature Conservation Campaigner Jordan Crook. During the day they […]...

PARK WATCH March 2020 | With the Andrews Government missing their deadline to agree to the creation of 60,000 hectares of national parks and reserves, opponents are now lobbying hard to […]...

PARK WATCH March 2020 | VicForest’s plans for clearfell logging in areas of proposed national park must be halted, argues Matt Ruchel. Community assets and natural values protected – or...

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...