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State budget boost not yet enough to rescue Victoria’s parks

MEDIA RELEASE 27 April 2016 | Victoria’s national parks and reserves are in desperate need of a significant injection of funds, and while today’s state budget offers some relief, it falls...

Grampians - Mt Stapylton- Photo John Sampson

Conservation blueprint for Victoria a step in the right direction

MEDIA RELEASE 17 March 2016 | A blueprint for protecting nature released by the Victorian Government todays a stepn the right direction, but the state’s natural environment needs major new...

2015 Great Victorian Fish Count results released

MEDIA RELEASE 26 February 2016 | More than 350 volunteer citizen scientists donned masks and snorkels to record fish species at 44 sites alongoria’s coastline as part of the 2015 Great...

Black Saturday fire at Wilsons Promontory National Park. Photo: Phil Ingamells

Natural Victoria is changing before our eyes

MEDIA RELEASE 22 February 2016 | Our native plants and animals are under stress from climate change, and Victoria’s natural areas may never be the same again. But there are ten useful things we...

Mornington Peninsula National Park, Cape Schanck. Photo: Indigo Skies Photography | (2.0 Generic CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Parks Victoria needs immediate, long-term funding boosts

MEDIA RELEASE 5 January 2016 | The management of Victoria’s national parks and nature conservation reserves is in serious decline and can only be rectified through a major boost in long-term...

Putting a stop to land clearing

Native vegetation on its knees Imagine a landscape without trees, native animals or birdsong. No one would want to live in a place like that. But parts of Victoria, the most cleared state in...

Moolap Coastal Park

Every great city has a great park; the Moolap Coastal Park could be Geelong’s. And now is the time to create it: the Cheetham Saltworks and Alcoa’s Point Henry aluminium smelter have closed, and...

A vision for Belfast National Park

An invasion of commercially trained horses, off-leash dogs, pests and weeds and illegal camping are some of the problems facing the Belfast Coastal Reserve. But managers can’t deal with these...

Belfast Coastal Reserve

A fragile coastal reserve in southwest Victoria has been invaded by racehorse trainers using it as a ‘race track’. They’re tearing up the beaches and dunes and jeopardising the future...

Point Nepean National Park

Point Nepean National Park and the Quarantine Station are jewels in Victoria’sonservation estate with multiple layers of history and magnificentoastal landscapes. Over many years, VNPA and the...