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New national roadmap to give nature a fair go

PARK WATCHrticle September 2024 | Matt Ruchel, Executive Director, reports on the progress of nature protection at home and abroadustralia leads the world in mammal extinctions, with one-in-five...

Mt Feathertop untamed. Photo: Mark Darragh

An elephant crossing the Alps

PARK WATCH Article September 2024 | The Victoriant’s scheme for the Falls to Hotham Alpine Crossing stands as a huge white elephant, says Gerard McPhee Earlier this year, the Allan...

Precious grasslands and holding decision-makers to account

PARK WATCH Article September 2024 | Grassy Plains Network Facilitator, Adrian Marshall, reports grasslands might be getting the attention they deserve In a sign of the times, our recently published A...

Offshore gas extraction at the 12 Apostles

PARK WATCH Article September 2024 | The Victorian Government recently approved a new gas extraction project close to the iconic Twelve Apostles In June, the Allan Government green lit Beach Energy to...

Western Port at risk from rising seas

PARK WATCH Article September 2024 | Shannon Hurley on why sea level rise, coupled with a proposed renewable energy terminal, underscores the urgency of protecting Western Port’s wetlands The...

Labouring for Leadies: 20 years of Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum

PARK WATCH Article September 2024 | Sera Blair, NatureWatch Coordinator and inaugural president of Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum, reflects on two decades of pushing for possum protection Twenty...

Sing me a song: Ecoacoustics, a new tool in our conservation toolbox

PARK WATCH Article September 2024 | Clare Wilson describes how we can survey with our ears instead of our eyes through ecoacoustics Ecoacoustics is an efficient monitoring method transforming the way...

Where have all the trees gone?

PARK WATCH Article September 2024 | Michael Spencer’s obituary for VicForests is an instructive guide against thosehoant to restart logging VicForests, the Victorian Government’s logging and...

Restoring the grasslands of the sea

PARK WATCH Article September 2024 | Laney Callahan unpacks her PhD research into seagrass restoration in Western Port Bay What’s the elevator pitch for your PhD? My PhD is focused on developing...

Nerding out on nudibranchs

PARK WATCH Article September 2024 | Eva Galasso is a young nudibranch enthusiast who regularly heads out sea slugging with VNPA’s ReefWatch team Nudibranchs! Or as they’re more commonly...