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Community alliance reaps reward for iconic Woodlands

PARK WATCH Article September 2025 | Western Portands have finally been declared a distinctive landscape, reports Jordan Crook, Parks and Nature Campaigner It’s official! The Western Port...

Shine a light on citizen science

PARK WATCH Article September 2025 | Dr Sera Blair, NatureWatch Coordinator, reveals the importance of citizen science to nature in Victoria In the depths of a Victorian forest, a torch beam cuts...

Cracking the new fire code

PARK WATCH Article September 2025 | The new bushfire code takes small steps but leaves big gaps, says Matt Ruchel, Executive Director Victoria’s Code of Practice for Bushfire Management on Public...

Action: make our new parks official

TAKE ACTION | We’re so close to getting new national and conservation parks in central west Victoria! The Wombat-Lerderderg, Mount Buangor and Pyrenees national parks (and conservation parks)...

Incredible news for long-awaited new central west national parks

NEWS 10 September 2025 | This morning legislation for new central west national parks and conservation reserves was tabled in Victorian Parliament! Nature conservation and community groups are...

The Wombat Forest at Nolans Crossing (Sandy Scheltema)

Historic nature milestone: long-awaited new national parks legislation tabled in Victoria

MEDIA RELEASE | 10 September 2025 The creation of the Wombat-Lerderderg, Mount Buangor and Pyrenees national parks and other conservation reserves will protect tens of thousands of hectares of...

Premier urged to deliver promised parks to benefit nature and communities

MEDIA RELEASE 29 August 2025 | Premier urged to deliver promised parks to benefit nature and communities The Victorian National Parks Association has launched full-page print ads in Bendigo and...

Central west parks

TAKE ACTION | The forests of the central westre extraordinary. They’re refuges for wildlifend people, places of connection to Country for First Nations communities. These forestsnd woodlands...

Victorian Government slammed for opening national parks to deer hunters

MEDIA RELEASE 10 July 2025 | The Victorian National Parks Association, Invasive Species Council and Environment East Gippsland have slammed the Allan Government’s decision to open 130,000...

Mason Falls through the trees in Kinglake National Park

Labor dumps popular national park plan after union lobbying

MEDIA RELEASE 4 July 2025 | The Allan Labor Government has dumped long-standing plans for a new Great Forest National Park in Victoria’s Central Highlands after Electrical Trades Union lobbying....