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Restoration or conversion?

PARK WATCH Article March 2023 | Jordan Crook questions the value to the environment and the taxpayer of proposed flood plain alterations along the Murray River The Victorian Murray Floodplain...

Keep our air clean and our water healthy

Many people don’t know that significant parts of Victoria’s regional water supply depends on the health of carbon-capturing forests across the states. New parks will protect significant...

I realised the Fat-tailed Dunnart was under threat. Here’s how I got the species officially listed

Republished from The Conversation | I realised the fat-tailed dunnart was under threat. Here’s how I got the species officially listed By Emily Scicluna and Jim Radford Saving endangered species...

Precious marsupial needs urgent protection from extinction

MEDIA RELEASE 30 March 2023 | The Victorian Government has been urged to list the Fat-tailed Dunnart as vulnerable, with the last surviving small marsupial of the state’s volcanic plains under...

Getting fire right

PARK WATCH Article March 2023 | Misinformation is rife in debates about fire management in Victoria. It must be challenged, says Phil Ingamells For years now, VNPA has been critical of the...

Next steps to save the Western Grassland Reserve

PARK WATCH Article March 2023 | Land acquisition has failed to obtain the best bits of the Western Grassland Reserve. That has to change. It’s time for some big thinking, says Grassy Plains...

The other housing crisis: Failing to protect hollow-bearing trees

PARK WATCH Article March 2023 | Bushfire management in Victoria is causing biodiversity decline through significant loss of hollow-bearing trees reports Michael Feller The Victorian Parliament’s...

The Phascogales and the phantom logger

PARK WATCH Article March 2023 | Nature Conservation Campaigner Ben Gill encounters cute critters and menacing machines whilst investigating dubious logging practices in the Cobaw State Forest An...

Wild Families March 2023

PARK WATCH Article March 2023 | Over summer, Wild Families spent time at Point Addis Marine National Park learning why seaweed so important Great facts we learnt about seaweed and algae Seaweed...

Macedon Ranges’ majestic Snow Gums

PARK WATCH Article March 2023 | Tanya Loos, Biodiversity Projects Officer with Macedon Ranges Shire Council, describes the area’s growing love and concern for their Snow Gums The first time I...