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- Labor seeks a historic fourth term, but what does it mean for nature?
- Determining the fate of nature after the Ruffy-Longwood fire
- Huge grassy gathering gives hope for future
- Millions for an energy terminal, but no plan to protect the Bay
- Arthurs Seat sold out by Planning Minister
- Connectivity on hold in the central west
- Relics of the Ice Age lost to a planning loophole
- Victorians for Nature launch new campaign
- Paving paradise to put up parking lots
- Terraforming my landscape
- Who’s protecting our marine parks?
- Government gutting key nature institutions
- Bushfires hit parks and wildlife
- Opportunity lost: Epic failure for an epic park
- When renewables are bad news for nature
- Grassland audit: some wins, many worries
- Nature advocacy in the digital age
- Time to stick up for nature
- Don’t shoot! Parks opened up to hunting
- VNPA honours advocates for nature
- Roadside grasslands getting smashed
- Protecting the legacy & future of national parks
- Welcome our new parks!
- Fosterville Mine a golden deal with a dirty cost
- Opportunity not to be missed for eliminating feral deer
- Energy transition needs marine protection
- Protecting nature on private land
- Wildlife Act review falls on deaf ears
- From Great Outdoors to great letdown: the Victorian Government’s green retreat
- Wired in Wyperfeld
- Up close and personal: Reiner Richter
- When the sea turns deadly
- Marine national parks: necessities not luxuries
- Central west parks enter the home straight!
- Who’s the boss? A day of Dingo education
- Ports, plans and a precious wetland
- Community alliance reaps reward for iconic Woodlands
- Shine a light on citizen science
- Cracking the new fire code
- Landslide for Labor, but what about nature?
- Former park rangers unite for nature
- Shock collars, baits and confusion: Dingo/Wilkerr population left in the lurch
- Loopy luge plan in Arthurs Seat State Park
- Clawsome results of marine research
- Making the most of a sad situation
- Protecting the protectors
- Golden milestone: 50 years of the National Parks Act 1975
- National Parks Act Quiz
- Salty Science: Swell
- Spotlight on Nature: Golden Sun Moth
- Plant Blindness: Button Wrinklewort
- Protecting the protectors
- Citizen science and recovery at Mt Cole
- Hail the holly-leaf grevilleas
- Bed and breakfast for Greater Gliders
- Park Friends: Wombat-Lerderderg National Park
- Put nature in the You Yangs plan
- Discover a bay of wonder
- Park Watch East Gippsland Quiz
- Safe pathways for all! Review of Creature Corridors
- Explorer’s Corner: Tips for your next fungus foray
- Park Friends: Errinundra National Park
- Salty Science: Evan’s Sea Spider
- Kentbruck Green Energy Hub: good project, wrong place
- Good news for nature!
- Protection failures lead to grassland destruction
- Proof of life: Secrets and wonders in the ex-Holden Proving Ground
- Protecting the thin green line
- Progress on Alps protection
- Undoing Undaria
- Feral feast
- Land clearing laws broken
- Capturing the bush
- Undermining nature in Chiltern-Mt Pilot
- Turning the tide
- Brolga betrayal
- Burnt and battered, but not beaten
- Forever forests: Keeping the promise of protection
- Our parks under attack in a swarm of spin
- Nature conservation reviews
- Nature protection and national parks in Victoria under attack
- Explorer’s Corner: Snorkelling by PT
- Salty Science: Herring Cale (Olisthops cyanomelas)
- All I want for Christmas is…
- Cracking the fire code
- Marine heroes of Western Port Bay
- Bull ants, bulldozers and the dark side of citizen science
- The toll of planned burn quotas on nature
- Protecting Victoria’s Burrunan Dolphins
- Lost in the Great Outdoors – state protection shelved despite community support
- Little River community wins big, twice!
- Dingo decision disgrace – culling continues
- Dodgy deer protection needs to go
- Tips for talking to your cranky uncle at Xmas
- Global study warns of risk to mangroves
- Not all dandy in the ranges
- Powerful research
- Unpopular Glamping Huts thrown out of the Victorian High Country
- Unlocking the next level of nature protection
- Joint letter calls on Victorian Government to stop protecting feral deer
- Blooming heck! Mt Cole Grevillea thrown a lifeline
- New national roadmap to give nature a fair go
- An elephant crossing the Alps
- Precious grasslands and holding decision-makers to account
- Offshore gas extraction at the 12 Apostles
- Western Port at risk from rising seas
- Labouring for Leadies: 20 years of Friends of Leadbeater’s Possum
- Sing me a song: Ecoacoustics, a new tool in our conservation toolbox
- Where have all the trees gone?
- Restoring the grasslands of the sea
- Nerding out on nudibranchs
- Now you see us
- Keeping renewables in the friend zone
- Acacia were wondering about wattles
- Parks for life!
- End of native forest logging a year on: milestones, duck ponds and legislative bunyips
- Time for a People’s Audit of our grasslands
- Racing towards better biodiversity outcomes
- Feathers to the flames
- Bootleg bike tracks
- Gone with the winds
- A blaze of concern: The Mt Cole Grevillea’s survival saga
- Spotlight on Wombat
- Renewing native grasslands in our cities
- Mowing the trees instead of the grass
- Native forest logging on private land: Talk about noisy neighbours!
- An A to Z of Australian plants
- Explorer’s Corner: Bush hygiene
- Storytime in the deep blue sea
- Parks for life quiz
- Salty Science: Neptune’s Necklace (Hormosira banksii)
- Time spent in nature reduces stress and increases happiness
- Slaughter of native waterbirds to continue
- How not to save a stonefly
- The winds of change
- Terminal diagnosis
- Logging in the shadows
- Great expectations for the Central Highlands forests
- Victorian national parks creation on a go slow
- Frogs, bogs and laws that do their jobs
- How strategic are strategic assessments?
- State of our grasslands
- Top dog needs protection
- Trees are monuments too
- Leadbeater’s Possum: Recognised but still at risk
- Marine national parks and sanctuaries
- Nature laws overview
- Spotlight on Nature: Southern Brown Bandicoot
- Western Port Woodlands Quiz
- VicForests: The end of an error
- Living baubles on our Christmas tree. Review of ‘Where are all the Christmas Beetles?’
- Megafauna slapdown! Review of ‘Diprotodon: A Megafauna Journey’
- Explorer’s Corner: Sitting in nature
- Beeripmo: a beloved walk put at risk
- Designing ‘nature-positive’ cities
- Restoring Golden Kelp forests
- Life after fire
- Wrong fire, wrong place
- Sating the thirst for proper marine planning
- Don’t go chasing butterflies (because they’re actually sea slugs!)
- Energy pressures mount on Western Port Bay
- A fair cop for suburban nature corridor
- Solving the Western Port Woodlands puzzle
- Enfield Grevillea victim of a flawed experiment
- An open letter to Premier Allan
- VNPA in support of YES vote for the Voice
- Vale Phil Ingamells, defender of nature
- Rogue logging attempt reduced due to community pressure, but plans still afoot
- The end of native forest logging is finally coming …but now for some real work
- End of native forest logging a victory for nature
- Saving the last one per cent
- Alliance for woodlands bears fruit
- Grasslands grapple with growth
- Going the full ten rounds for Box-Ironbark forests
- Winds of change: Sustainable energy needs sustainable planning
- Postcards from the Bay
- Pressure mounts against rogue logging in Dandenong Ranges National Park
- Malleefowl monitoring
- Put space in the right place
- Cobaws rogue loggers exploiting loopholes
- Mt Cole: Where have all the flowers gone?
- Project Hindmarsh: Butterflies, worms and wildflowers
- Restoration or conversion?
- Keep our air clean and our water healthy
- I realised the Fat-tailed Dunnart was under threat. Here’s how I got the species officially listed
- Getting fire right
- Next steps to save the Western Grassland Reserve
- The other housing crisis: Failing to protect hollow-bearing trees
- The Phascogales and the phantom logger
- Wild Families March 2023
- Macedon Ranges’ majestic Snow Gums
- Cry me a river: Water for Wyperfeld
- Alarm at Dandenong Ranges fire logging
- Sums done down by the sea shore
- 2023: Year of greater vision for Western Port Bay
- What’s up for nature in Andrews’ third term?
- Without a wing or a prayer
- A win for the Wingless
- Personalise a Western Port postcard
- The trouble with VicForests and native forest logging
- First ever Feathertail Gliders found in proposed Pyrenees National Park
- Are you part of the Cool Temperate Rainforest appreciation society?
- Act for Western Port Bay
- Spotlight on the west – a dive into the parks between Torquay and Portland
- Turning a moment into a movement: the collective future of biosecurity
- 70 years of the Victorian National Parks Association
- Wombat Forest Update
- Time to rescue the Alpine National Park – again!
- The Intricacies of Immediate Protection
- Offshore wind plans gust through Victoria
- Q&A: Catherine Watson from Save Western Port Woodlands
- Hidden Gems: The Great Victorian Fish Count is turning 20!
- Giant Kelp: Big ‘trees’ in the ocean
- Caught on Camera: 10 years of Citizen Science wildlife monitoring in Bunyip State Park
- Safeguarding our seas – now and for the next 20 years
- Illegal destruction of conservation reserve, government failure
- Controversial mountain bike track decision pending
- New year News for Spider Crabs
- BREAKING: Greater Gliders added to federal endangered list
- Promises smashed
- Logging Greater Glider homes
- Over the handlebars
- Flight or fight
- “Immediate” Protection Areas creep along
- Sand in their eyes
- Funding future for national parks
- Friends with co-benefits
- Yarra Ranges National Park thrown under the mountain bike
- Still standing
- Majority rules – we want protection, not development, of national parks
- Commitment issues
- The broken, promised grasslands of Melbourne
- Undaria underwater
- VNPA presents to Warburton Mountain Bike Destination EES Hearing
- It’s a draft fail for beloved Bass Coast biodiversity hotspot
- Defending the integrity of the Yarra Ranges National Park
- Trees to Seas – citizen science weekend at Cape Conran
- World Economic Forum names climate change and biodiversity loss among biggest global threats
- More native forest commitment issues
- Good news for Giant Spider Crabs
- New plan for looking after the Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park
- New state of environment report: All decline no action
- State of Victoria’s marine and coasts
- Feral horse plan very welcome
- Horseplay in NSW
- Big trees in big trouble
- Balancing on the edge of extinction
- A gas explosion
- Fire break shenanigans
- A new find
- Making the Great Ocean Road great again?
- Riverside camping or riparian care
- More ambition needed for our seas and shores
- Introducing the bryozoan reef
- Our forests: key to a safe climate future
- The weird and wonderful inhabitants of the Great Southern Reef
- They can bring wildlife back from the brink of extinction
- Protect our alpine habitat from NSW feral horses!
- Urge our representatives to fix Victoria’s extinction disgrace
- Worst move for national parks in decades
- Mystery in the shallows
- Big trees – little protection
- Clearfelling the Code
- Not so fast
- A major event
- Fire management needs some open scrutiny
- Time to hang on to the wild
- Wild winds and flattened forests
- New national parks for Victoria
- Australia Institute’s Anne Kantor Fellowship for Young Women Environmentalists
- Tribute: Ian Harris
- Australia has failed Greater Gliders
- Win for Westernport!
- Camping with cows?
- How will Spider Crabs fare this season?
- Living giants
- Give me a reserve among the factories
- The Prom needs a plan
- Time to rethink fire
- World Environment Day: Recreate, Reimagine & Restore
- More than a word: Indigenous Joint Management
- Help the tiny Tooarrana and other alpine wildlife survive the hooves of feral horses
- Yay for Western Port Bay!
- Speak up to stop AGL dumping toxic waste water in Westernport Bay
- The track and the stonefly
- The future of our beautiful bay
- Ticking all the boxes
- What’s that? The national environmental laws don’t work?
- Victoria needs leadership for biodiversity
- Who is Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park there for?
- After the fires
- Time to give a hoot
- Saving Feathertop
- Greater Gariwerd (Grampians) management plan open for comment
- For Parks Sake!
- Still time to create the central west national parks
- Recommendations for fire management
- It’s tool time
- A split list?
- Victoria’s Deer “Strategy”
- Old-growth forests – imperilled in Victoria
- Speaking out for Westernport’s wildlife
- Strange, yet spectacular
- Marine Life of Victoria
- A decade of community passion for a native icon
- End of public hearings on the future of Westernport Bay
- Western Port – a wildlife wonderland at risk
- Permanent protection for nature stalls
- Going, going, gone?
- Renewed rush to ‘clear’ the way
- Getting crabbier
- River Red Gum Parks – designated but dewatered?
- Traditional Owner joint-management
- Bung Yarnda (Lake Tyers) visitor plan paves the way
- Talking Crab
- Inquiry into ecosystem decline in Victoria
- Truth needs to prevail for effective management of Alpine National Park brumbies
- Parks legacy – River Red Gum Parks tenth anniversary
- Forgotten forests
- A rare discovery
- Another decade…
- The wicked Regional Forest Agreement of the west
- Federal Court backs national park protection
- Opportunity to strengthen national environmental laws
- Victoria’s new threatened species laws coming into force
- Too sensitive and precious to risk
- March of the Spider Crabs
- A once in a generation opportunity
- Wombat caught in illegal snare trap
- A Greater Refuge for Gliders
- Andrews Government late for an important date
- Mount Cole still on the chopping block
- This summer’s fire
- The next fire
- Save or salvage
- Toward the finish line?
- The Great Obfuscation Road
- Follow the money, not the promises
- VNPA Coronavirus (COVID-19) update
- Member for Bendigo: Support the wonders of the Wellsford
- The Prom as a sanctuary
- An end to logging of Victoria’s native forests?
- What about the west?
- Public access to public land: what’s the game?
- Otways Cut Up
- The promised grasslands of the never never
- Backyard Bandicoots
- Nature for Life Action Plan
- Details of Andrews Government forest announcement
- The announcement to end logging Victoria’s native forest – what it really means
- A blue print for our blue commons
- Feral horses end up in court
- World Heritage for Budj Bim
- Great Ocean Road parks face a wobbly take-over bid
- A dozen good reasons for new national parks in the central west of Victoria
- How to spot your dragon
- What (and where) is the Great Southern Reef?
- Great Victorian Fish Count 2018 report released
- Caring for parks – by the numbers
- Victoria – state of nature decline
- Zombie western forest agreements
- Compare the pair
- Victoria’s Western Grassland Reserves failure
- Westernport Bay at risk
- Protecting Barmah’s great wetlands
- Is it time to make national parks truly national?
- Shifting sands
- Plans for our big blue backyard
- Draft deer plan will not protect nature or the community
- States of equine confusion
- What happened to Victoria’s park visitor centres?
- Black Saturday – Ten years on
- Black Saturday – How things have changed
- Black Saturday – Forests after the fires
- Nature in the next term
- Let’s protect it forever
- A ‘peak’ of interest
- Riverside Rescue
- Great Ocean Road national parks land grab
- Evidence should rule
- Respect, protect and reconnect Melbourne’s grasslands
- Nature ignored in state election
- Majority of Victorians support national parks and nature protection
- Labor commitment to new suburban parks
- Time to protect the high country
- Government’s deer management strategy lacks conviction
- National parks creation needs a jump start
- Nature’s Needs
- Forests of the Central West
- Walking the Beeripmo clearfell trail
- Great Ocean Road threatened?
- We can deal with deer
- Rediscovering a rarity
- Deer invasion gone too far!
- Act for nature enters Parliament
- Are deer the new cane toads?
- Marine and Coastal milestone
- Do gold diggers have special rights?
- Pipis under pressure
- Opportunity to protect important wetlands
- Create the Great Forest National Park
- Victoria’s marine playground – Westernport Bay – at risk
- 2017 Great Victorian Fish Count report released
- No logging in our national parks
- Being frank about fire
- We love parks, but do our politicians?
- The nature of wood
- Dealing with deer
- Where’s the line?
- The Great Tree Project
- Alpine National Park gets a lifeline
- New investigation into marine areas
- Falls to Hotham track impacts grow
- Auditor-General shines light on coastal management
- How can we allow platypuses to drown in Victoria?
- Who’s in charge?
- Authority-mad government blinks on marine
- Point Nepean Saga: Drawing to a close?
- Lessons from the Little Desert
- Regional Forest Agreements extended
- Vale Eileen McKee
- Relief for the Alpine National Park in sight
- Act on marine life – new legislation debated in Victorian Parliament
- Wild horses: Alpine National Park’s chance to heal
- Native forests deserve better than a regulatory relic
- Comes with strings
- Nature’s medicine
- Victorian national parks by premier
- Three years on: how is the state government tracking?
- What’s the plan?
- Bringing back coastal nature
- Wetland wishes
- Hug a tree – before is gets cleared and offset!
- Act on marine life
- Joint statement calling for Great Forest National Park
- National parks creation stalls under Andrews Labor
- Nature and the Northcote by-election
- Statewide Assessment of Public Land
- Pest animals get more than a glance
- Leaving only the ASH
- Take action on horses hurting hoodies
- The fire inquiry we could have had
- Dive in from your desk!
- Skewed consultation on Belfast Coastal Reserve management plan
- Out-of-control horse in Belfast Coastal Reserve risks wildlife and public safety
- Sanctuary or developer’s dream?
- Horses hurting hoodies
- Making parks and tourism work
- Alarm at logging of western forests and woodlands
- Resurrecting reefs
- Celebrating two decades of growth
- Do love letters get any bigger than this?
- Victoria’s forests are not magic puddings
- Dolphins in danger
- New investigation into Victoria’s central west forests
- Anglesea Heathlands’ flowers empowered
- National parks for sale – again!
- Proposed logging in western state forests slammed
- Feral horses in the Alpine National Park
- Report reveals true value of Victoria’s unprotected forests
- Does the Prom need a high-powered boat tour?
- Free Mt Stirling – make it part of the Alpine National Park
- Our nature protection laws need fundamental reform
- Not-so-healthy parks for wealthy people
- Falls to Hotham Alpine Crossing development fails the pub test
- Planning Point Nepean National Park
- New native vegetation regulations released for final comment
- Bernie Fox honoured with lifetime achievement award
- Milestone report on health of our bays a wake-up call
- Half-time score: progress marred by free kick to racing industry
- Looking out for the Bunyip
- Living next to nature – how to be a good ‘bushland neighbour’
- Hunting in parks no job for amateurs
- Logging plan puts squeeze on Victoria’s high value native forests
- Mt Stirling Summit Tree recognised as a living treasure
- Auditor-General scathing of Victoria’s management of Ramsar sites
- Putting a stop to land clearing
- Moolap Coastal Park
- A vision for Belfast National Park
- Belfast Coastal Reserve
- Save Western Port
- Anglesea Heathlands
- Pipis in peril
- Moolap and Point Henry
- Marine and Coastal Act
- A future for Western Port?
- The coast is unclear
- Moolap Coastal Strategic Framework Plan
- Riverside (riparian) land
- Category: Campaign Updates
- Category: Media Releases
- Melbourne has its own grassland bullant and it’s clinging on at just eight known sites
- New outdoor recreation body risks failing parks, nature and recreational users
- Native forest logging back by stealth three years after promised end
- $124.5m for an energy terminal, but no plan to protect the Bay
- Victorian Government puts knife through nature protection
- VNPA helping lead in seed-based grassland restoration
- Victoria’s gutting of Environment agencies poses grave threats to nature
- New Audit highlights failed promises to protect threatened grassy habitats
- Lose the luge!
- Victoria has its first substantial new national parks in 14 years
- Victoria’s Great Outdoors Plan falls short on nature protection
- New national parks in central west one step closer
- Historic nature milestone: long-awaited new national parks legislation tabled in Victoria
- Premier urged to deliver promised parks to benefit nature and communities
- Victorian Government slammed for opening national parks to deer hunters
- Labor dumps popular national park plan after union lobbying
- Allan Government slammed over years of broken national parks promises
- Community groups call for urgent protection of living gem
- Half of Victoria’s Fisheries Officers Face the Axe Despite Community Outcry
- Victoria’s national parks need urgent budget boost 50 years after landmark laws
- New Parks Victoria leadership must refocus on nature protection
- Cuts to Victorian fisheries officers unites conservationists and fishers
- Feral deer in Western Victoria need the boot after bushfires
- Victoria’s dangerous native logging loophole exposed with critical wildlife at risk
- Native forest logging loophole puts wildlife at risk
- Outrageous destruction of precious Melbourne grassland after governments’ collective protection failure
- Cuts to fisheries officers could spell disaster for Victoria’s marine life
- Changes to rock climbing at Mount Arapiles-Tooan State Park: a step forward for heritage protection
- Motives of unexpected Parks Victoria review questioned
- Dismay at Allan Government’s ongoing failure to deliver new promised national parks
- Time for the Allan Labor Government to deliver popular new forest protections
- Exposed: native forest logging shifts from public to private land
- ‘People’s Audit’ reveals massive leadership failure to protect promised lands
- Logging Shock: Endangered Greater Glider found killed by alleged illegal tree clearing
- Native fish extinction almost guaranteed without urgent intervention
- Victoria could avoid further rejection of new offshore wind projects
- Conservationists and scientists frustrated over rejection of protecting critically endangered species
- Victoria must protect precious wetlands after wind project’s federal rejection
- Allan Government must honour promise to legislate new national parks in Victoria’s west
- Community speaks out against rogue logging in precious national park habitat
- State logger plans could destroy endangered alpine plants
- Alarming discovery by citizen scientists sparks concerns illegal logging will continue
- Victorian nature community elated over faster end to native forest logging in the state
- Audit says radical changes needed if Victorian Government is to succeed in retaining last 1% of remaining grasslands
- Precious marsupial needs urgent protection from extinction
- Peak conservation group lodges historic application to save critically endangered insect
- Protect cultural and ecological recovery within the Barmah National Park, as a result of 2022 major flood event
- Critically endangered creatures under threat at Phillip Island
- New Victorian election poll: environment more influential than infrastructure and Covid
- Amazing result for Yarra Ranges National Park!
- ‘Poor cousin’: Why Victoria’s second largest bay needs urgent attention
- Greater Glider endangered status makes protection of Wombat Forest more urgent
- New research reveals more Greater Gliders at risk from logging in Wombat Forest
- Logging in promised national park smashes forest and Andrews’ commitments
- Wellsford Big Trees Recognised as Significant
- National poll: Aussies want protection of national parks
- Today’s Parliamentary Inquiry report reveals tragic state of Victorian biodiversity
- Great Victorian Fish Count 2021: Exploring the greatest of all reefs
- Feral horse plan will help protect one of Victoria’s finest national parks
- Victoria’s extinction disgrace – scathing report highlights funding failings of government to halt decline
- New report shows wildlife corridor is critical for threatened species
- New Great Ocean Road management authority has far too much authority!
- Process on establishing new ‘Immediate’ Protection Areas for Victoria’s native forests needs to move quickly to make up for lost time
- Barmah National Park gets a new lease of life
- BREAKING NEWS: Milestone for nature protection as Andrews Government announces new national parks
- Wildlife package needed for storm affected areas
- The Andrews Government is not “getting things done” for Victoria’s natural environment
- State logging imminent near largest trees on mainland Australia
- An open letter to the Andrews’ Government: Less talk, more protection for nature
- Western Port community rejoices as AGL’s controversial gas terminal rejected
- Time for feral horses to leave the Alpine National Park alone
- Government logging of unburnt wildlife refuges exposed
- New national parks for central west Victoria makes good economic sense says new modelling
- Powerful Owls discovered for first time in decades: call for new national park
- Great Victorian Fish Count 2020: Exploring our home turf
- A brighter future for the Prom and Victoria’s natural areas
- Deer strategy has lots of huff and puff, but short on action
- New Poll Highlights Growing Need For Nature And Parks Amongst COVID-Fatigued Melbournians
- Hearings to expose fatal flaws in AGL’s controversial gas project – media backgrounder
- It’s an unhappy anniversary for threatened wildlife and frustrated communities in the central west!
- Community getting crabby: bag limit proposal maintains crab carnage
- Another unhappy anniversary for threatened species and wildlife of the central west forests
- It’s an unhappy anniversary for threatened wildlife and frustrated communities in the central west!
- New audit scathing of efforts to protect Victoria’s critically endangered grasslands
- Court upholds national park management
- Federal Court rules to protect Victoria’s Alpine National Park from feral horses
- Environmentalists support increased protection for Victoria’s greatest wetland
- Greater Gliders need a new national park in the Wombat Forest
- Fire response and recovery package for nature welcomed
- Deer should be listed as a pest animal – because they are!
- Victorians rally for nature protection
- Good first move to better protect native forests from logging
- Milestone for conservation – final report released today
- Alarm at Great Ocean Road national park land grab
- Nature needs far more attention – state budget 2019-2020
- Call for Andrews Government to act decisively on feral deer
- Action on feral horses welcome
- Bleak outlook for nature in Victoria: government must ramp up its care of nature
- Celebrating 50 amazing years of the Little Desert National Park
- Andrews commitment to boost investment in camping and parks welcome
- Great Victorian Fish Count 2018: A chance to meet the friendly faces of our coast
- Victoria’s natural environment in limbo but voters want action
- Call for more support to nature conservation volunteers
- Poll tells Andrews Government that Victorians want forests protected not logged
- Great Ocean Road national parks land grab
- AGL forced to face facts
- Deer management needs real commitment from major parties, say conservationists
- Andrews Government must apply environmental scrutiny to damaging gas import terminal
- Draft report proposes new and expanded National Parks in the central west – a boon for tourism, recreation and nature
- Logging to impact one of Victoria’s most popular bush walks at Mount Cole
- Anger at Andrews Government’s coastal plan which turns our public beaches into racetracks
- Mine approval means short term gain for long-term pain
- Rally to oppose AGL gas import and Kawasaki projects in Western Port Bay
- Victoria’s chance to lead on protecting the Alpine park from feral horse damage
- Funding boost for parks, but nature conservation a low priority in election year budget
- Citizen scientists dive in for inaugural Melbourne Sea Slug Census
- Victorian premier must immediately reject logging in national parks
- Groups call for removal of racehorses from Belfast Coastal Reserve plan
- Feral horses aren’t good for the high country – conservationists call for removal
- New plan for Point Nepean will bring historic park back to life
- New blow to hooded plovers and family beach days
- Victorian Government moves on invasive animals
- Great Victorian Fish Count 2017: Hundreds praise our rays
- Fish count 2017 offers ray of hope for Victoria’s sea life
- Melbourne’s wild deer chase puts Victorian government on notice
- Racehorses should train on new sand track, not in coastal reserve
- Victoria’s western forests threatened under new logging plans
- Andrews Government fails legal test on commercial horse training in coastal reserve
- Giant human sign spells out Victoria’s support for Great Forest National Park
- Victorian budget a step in the right direction for nature protection
- Hoodies win beach battle but still at war with Andrews Government
- Families get a bit wild at Yarra Bend ‘Wild Families’ launch
- New statewide plan maps out nature protection for Victoria
- Win for Anglesea Heathlands – to be protected in Great Otway National Park
- Victoria’s nature protection laws need fundamental reform
- Milestone report on health of our bays a wake-up call
- Point Nepean plan a good step forward
- Great Victorian Fish Count 2016: Nemo and Dory have nothing on our fish
- Government puts horses ahead of protecting our hoodies
- Victorian Government backs racehorses over hoodies
- Racehorses tearing up fragile coastal reserve
- Parks Victoria must get crucial resources for new alpine parks plan
- Farming zone must go at Belfast Coastal Reserve
- ALP promise to protect national parks welcomed
- State budget boost not yet enough to rescue Victoria’s parks
- Conservation blueprint for Victoria a step in the right direction
- 2015 Great Victorian Fish Count results released
- Natural Victoria is changing before our eyes
- Parks Victoria needs immediate, long-term funding boosts
- Category: Park Watch Articles
- Category: Program Updates
- Category: Our successes
- Category: Take Action
Parks
Programs
Publications
- Park Watch June 2026
- Industrial Facility, 276 Rex Road, Campbellfield
- Submission to Inquiry into the 2026 summer fires across Victoria
- City of Greater Geelong Draft Plan for Nature
- Birregurra-Ombersley Poultry Farm
- Melbourne's Grassland Bullant
- Project Diamond Industrial Development, EPBC 2026/10418
- Craigieburn Industrial Development, EPBC 2021/9093
- Park Watch March 2026
- Draft Terms of Reference for Strategic Assessment of FFMV
- The Track Through the Scribbly Gums
- Preliminary Documentation for the Proposed Development at 103 Reid Street and 18b Jonesfield Corner, Ardeer
- Draft National Recovery Plan for Grassy Eucalypt Woodland
- Greater Avalon Employment Precinct November 2025 public consultation
- Derrimut Logistics Hub Industrial Development
- Proposed Development at 103 Reid Street and 18b Jonesfield Corner, Ardeer
- Draft National Recovery Plan for Greater Gliders
- NWA submission re documentation for NWGGA
- Draft Master Plan for Werribee Township Regional Park
- Draft National Recovery Plan for the Southern Brown Bandicoot (Eastern) 2025
- Western Port Ramsar Site Management Plan (draft)
- Park Watch December 2025
- 2024 Great Victorian Fish Count
- Proposed development of 62 Collins Rd and 170 Boundary Rd Dromana
- Pop-up! Developing & delivering short-notice marine volunteering events
- Proposed Development at 103 Reid Street and 18b Jonesfield Corner, Ardeer
- Falls to Hotham Alpine Crossing - Submission to application 2025/10319
- Feedback on a draft National Recovery Plan for the South-eastern Long-eared Bat
- Native Forest logging operation at Mount Horsfall
- Cairnlea Section G Mixed Use Development
- Draft national recovery plan for the Golden Sun Moth
- Park Watch September 2025
- Annual Impact Report 2024-25
- Submission into public inquiry into the algal blooms in South Australia
- VRET EPBC Referral submission
- Park Watch June 2025
- VicGrid Draft Transmission Plan submission
- Submission to Wildlife Strike Inquiry
- Future investment in the You Yangs and Serendip Sanctuary
- Gippsland Offshore Wind Transmission
- Submission to Draft Orchid Action Statement
- Environmental Effects Statement Submission Opposing the Proposed Kentbruck Green Power Hub
- Draft Scoping Requirements for the Victorian Renewable Energy Terminal EES
- Park Watch March 2025
- Support for listing assessment Alpine Ash forests of mainland Australia
- Submissions to planning scheme and permit at Point Nepean Quarantine Station
- A better approach to managing biodiversity impacts of renewables
- Submission to the Dyurrite Cultural Landscape Management Plan Amendment
- Underwater weeding in Port Phillip Bay
- Victorian Government Great Outdoors Taskforce
- Park Watch Dec 2024
- Submission to Draft Southeast Marine Park Network Management Plan
- Submission to Draft Strategic Extractive Resource Areas (SERA) planning changes
- Submission to Consultation draft – Code of Practice for Bushfire Management on Public Land 2024
- Annual Impact Report 2023-24
- Submission to Stage one feedback of the the Murray River Adventure Trail (MRAT)
- Technical Memo - Threatened Fauna Recorded in Dandenong Ranges NP
- Technical Memo - Hollow-bearing Trees in Proposed Salvage logging zones
- Technical Memo - Endangered Plants recorded in proposed log removal zones - Dandenong Ranges National Park
- Park Watch Sept 2024
- Senate Inquiry into the Offshore wind industry consultation process
- EES Submission Opposing the Proposed Expansion of the Fosterville Mine
- A People's Audit
- Achieving 30 by 30 on land
- Park Watch June 2024
- 2023 Great Victorian Fish Count
- Victorian Cat Management Strategy
- Park Watch March 2024
- Winds of change
- Protecting our living legacies
- Park Watch December 2023
- Submission: Dandenong Police Paddocks Reserve Master Plan
- Annual Impact Report 2022-23
- Correa reflexa var. lobata (Powelltown Correa) Detection Report: Dandenong Ranges National Park
- Park Watch September 2023
- Conservation Journeys - A History of VNPA (2nd ed)
- Submission: Southern Ocean Region Offshore Renewable Energy Zone
- Detection Report: Olinda Log removal Coupe- Dandenong Ranges National Park-Lyrebird
- Submission: Victoria’s Biosecurity Strategy
- Submission: TGS Environmental Plan
- Submission: Land Management Plan – Wilsons Promontory and surrounding parks and reserves June 2023
- Park Watch June 2023
- 2022 Great Victorian Fish Count
- Submission: Inquiry into Victoria's Recreational Native Bird Hunting Arrangements
- Submission: Impacts and management of feral horses in the Australian Alps
- Critical Habitat Nomination: Mount Donna Buang Wingless Stonefly
- Park Watch March 2023
- Submission: National Feral Deer Action Plan 2022-27
- Submission: Wilsons Promontory Revitalisation #2
- Submission: Mackenzie Falls (Migunang wirab) Revitalisation project
- Park Watch November 2022
- Submission: Reforming Victoria’s biosecurity legislation
- Submission: Offshore renewable energy infrastructure area proposal
- Submission: Great Ocean Road Coastal Trail Design
- Submission into the Future uses of our forest and immediate protection areas: Strathbogie Ranges and Mirboo North
- Submission: Port Phillip Bay and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site Boundary Review
- Threatened Species Detection Report: Greater Gliders in Wombat Forest
- Park Watch June 2022
- Submission: Wilsons Promontory Revitalisation
- Big Trees of the Wellsford Forest
- Park Watch March 2022
- National Parks are for protection not development – new national poll
- Submission: Warburton Mountain Bike Destination Environmental Effects Statement
- Park Watch December 2021
- After the Logging: Failing to regrow Victoria's native forests
- Submission: Draft Marine and Coastal Strategy
- Park Watch September 2021
- Submission: Draft Victorian Boating Strategy
- 2020 Great Victorian Fish Count
- Western Port Woodlands – wildlife corridor or sand pit?
- Submission: Major Event Review For Victoria’s Fire Impacted Forests
- Submission: Natural Environment Adaptation Action Plan
- Submission: Proposed Variation of the Code of Practice for Timber Production
- Submission: Wildlife Act 1975 Review
- Letters to decision-makers: Spider Crabs
- Park Watch June 2021
- Submission: Warburton Mountain Bike Destination Environment Effects Statement
- Submission: Land (Regulated Watercourse Land) Regulations
- Park Watch March 2021
- Submission: AGL gas import terminal
- Witness Statement - Review of Gas Import Jetty and Pipeline EES, Westernport, Victoria
- After The Fires – Protecting Our Forest Refuges
- New Central West Parks Economic Assessment Report
- Threatened species detection report: Mount Cole – clearfelling critical owl havens
- Park Watch December 2020
- Submission: To inform the Warburton Mountain Bike Destination Environment Effects Statement
- Submission: Draft Brolga Assessment and Mitigation Standards for Wind Energy Facilities
- Grass trees under the microscope
- Mount Cole Threatened Species Detection Reports
- Park Watch September 2020
- Submission: Parliamentary inquiry into environmental infrastructure for growing populations
- COVID-19 Parks Polling
- Submission: Parliamentary Inquiry into Ecosystem Decline in Victoria
- Submission: Strategic Extractive Resource Areas Pilot Project
- Submission: Senate inquiry into the lessons to be learned in relation to the 2019-20 Australian bushfire season
- Park Watch June 2020
- Marine National Parks Podcast
- Submission: Inspector General for Emergency Management Inquiry into the 2019- 2020 Victorian Fire Season
- Submission: EPBC Act Review
- Park Watch March 2020
- Wombat Forest, A Greater Refuge for Gliders
- Submission: Gummy & School Shark Fisheries Notice
- Submission: VicForests Timber Utilisation Plan (TUP)
- Park Watch December 2019
- Park Watch September 2019
- Submission: Marine and Coastal Policy
- 2018 Great Victorian Fish Count
- Submission: Regional Forest Agreements Modernisation
- Caught On Camera: citizen science in the Wombat State Forest – five year report
- Park Watch June 2019
- Marine Protected Area Review 2019
- Park Watch March 2019
- Park Watch December 2018
- Submission: Draft Deer Management Strategy
- Little Desert Podcast
- Park Watch September 2018
- Submission: Australia's Faunal Extinction Crisis
- Submission: Victorian Pipi Fishery Management Plan
- Submission: Draft Joint Management Plan for the Dja Dja Wurrung Parks
- 2017 Great Victorian Fish Count
- Park Watch June 2018
- Park Watch March 2018
- Submission: Draft Belfast Coastal Reserve Management Plan
- Submission: Regional Forest Agreements
- Submission: Protection of the Alpine National Park: Feral Horse Strategic Action Plan
- Park Watch December 2017
- Victorian National Parks by Premier
- Park Watch September 2017
- 2016 Great Victorian Fish Count
- Park Watch June 2017
- Western Forests and Woodlands at risk
- Submission: Draft Moolap Coastal Strategic Framework Plan
- Park Watch March 2017
- Building a National Parks Service for Victoria
- Conservation journeys - a short history of the VNPA
- A history of Wilsons Promontory
- Protecting our seas and shores: priorities for marine conservation in Victoria
- Falls To Hotham Alpine Crossing 2016 Draft Master Plan
- 2015 Great Victorian Fish Count
- Park Watch December 2016
- Inquiry into the control of invasive animals on crown land
- Park Watch September 2016
- Draft Wild Horse Management Plan for Kosciuszko National Park
- Moolap Coastal Strategic Framework Plan Discussion Paper
- Inquiry into fire season preparedness
- Infrastructure Victoria: all things considered
- Park Watch June 2016
- Review of the 2010 Point Nepean National Park Master Plan
- Draft Biodiversity Strategy
- Exploring Victoria's national parks
- Park Watch March 2016
- Park Watch December 2015
- Park Watch September 2015
- Submission: Statewide assessment of public land
- Park Watch June 2015
- Park Watch March 2015
- Submission: Review of performance targets for bushfire fuel management on public land
- Park Watch December 2014
- Scenario planning for the Westernport Bay Region
- Submission: Draft Management Plan for the Greater Alpine National Parks
- Submission: Point Nepean Quarantine Station
- Park Watch September 2014
- Submission: hooded plover - EPBC Act nomination
- Submission: Grampians Peak Trail Draft Master Plan
- Park Watch June 2014
- Caught on Camera: a community monitoring project in the Wimmera Region
- Impact of proposed Port of Hastings expansion on the birdlife of Western Port
- Impact of Proposed Port of Hastings expansion on seagrass, mangroves and salt marsh
- Park Watch March 2014
- The coast is unclear
- Nature Conservation Review 2014
- Park Watch December 2013
- Protecting marine habitat: a handbook for Victorian waters
- Caught on Camera: a community monitoring project in the Wombat State Forest
- Caught on Camera: a community monitoring project in Bunyip State Park
- Park Watch September 2013
- Wombat State Forest: a guide to the mammals 'caught on camera'
- Park Watch June 2013
- The state of recreational fishing in Victoria
- Park Watch March 2013
- Start with the grasslands
- Frogs in the grass
- Legging it for lizards
- Melbourne's urban expansion: threatened species on our doorstep
- Moths in the sun
- Riverside rescue: solutions for riparian land in Victoria
- 13 thirsty species
- Better protection for special places
- Turning it around: a state election agenda to safeguard Victoria's environment
- Human health risk from Crown water frontage licences
- Victorian 2009 February fires
- Flawed promises
- Assessment of the weed management program in land managed by Parks Victoria
- Annual Impact Reports
- Submission: Inquiry into the Impact of Public Land Management Practices on Bushfires in Victoria 2007
- Nature Conservation Review Victoria 2001
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- Glenroy, Broadmeadows, Sunbury
- Malvern East, Blackburn, Mount Waverly
- Mount Worth State Park
- Blanket Bay - Great Otway National Park
- Wickliffe Cemetery
- Doreen's Grassland
- Fed Square
- Oak Street
- Illabarook
- Heathcote-Graytown National Park
- Cowies Creek, Norlane
- bababi djinanang
- ngarri-djarrang
- Ginnifer Restoration
- St Albans Rail Reserve
- Malcolm Creek
- Cape Conran Coastal Park
- Airey's Inlet
- Pakenham Grassland Reserve
- Brisbane Ranges
- Woodend racecourse
- Rokewood Cemetery
- Mount Ridley
- Terrick Terrick
- Rubicon River
- Brimbank Park
- Mt Torbreck - Eildon area
- Cathedral Range State Park
- Braeside Park
- Treeline Conservation Area
- Aberfeldy Conservation Area
- Campbells Creek
- Galada Community Centre - Activity room 1
- Woorndoo Restoration Carpark
- Yellingbo Public Hall (1931 Healesville-Koo Wee Rup Road, Yellingbo)
- 461 Monteville Ln, Ballan
- The Gurdies
- Gunnamatta Beach
- Ricketts Point
- Burns Road Grassland (Merton Street Grassland)
- Coolart Wetlands and Homestead
- Ajax Road Grassland entry track
- Mount Donna Buang
- Anglesea
- Mt Cole
- Bunyip State Park
- Lorne
- Flinders Pier
- Red Hill
- Ballarat
- Ferntree Gully
- Barwon Heads
- Victoria
- Kitty Miller Bay
- Oakleigh Hall
- Crystals Steps, Williamstown
- Mornington Peninsula
- Mt Buffalo National Park
- Wilsons Prom
- Cave Hill Creek
- Little Raven
- Isabella Williams
- Epping Cemetery
- The Mighty Darebin Creek
- Woorndoo Common
- The Lakes
- Railway Parade Grassland
- Yarra Junction
- Cnr Bolac Plains Road and Woorndoo-Streatham Rd, Woorndoo
- Telford Park, Darley
- Yalukit Willam Nature Reserve
- Del Eco Reef
- Toolangi, VIC, Australia 3777
- Wurdi Youang
- The Gurdies Nature Conservation Reserve
- Adams Creek Nature Conservation Reserve
- Ferris Road Grassland
- Grey Gum Parking Lot, Silvan Reservoir Park (65 Stonyford Road, Silvan)
- Trentham, Victoria
- Grey Gum Parking Lot, Silvan Reservoir Park (65 Stonyford Roadm Silvan)
- Olinda Falls Parking Lot, (End of Falls Road at Doughty Road, Olinda)
- Evans Street Grassland
- Boadles Lane Railway Remnant
- 'Bunnings Car Park Grassland'
- Truganina Park
- Mcckorkells Roadside Grassland Remnant
- JH Allan Reserve
- Jollys' Grassland
- Melbourne City Conference Centre
- 60l Green Building - 60 Leicester St, Carlton VIC
- 440 Melton Hwy, Taylors Lakes
- Iramoo Native Plant Nursery
- Harry Atkinson Art and Craft Centre
- Grants Picnic Ground, Dandenong Ranges National Park
- San Remo
- Online
- Online - Zoom link provided to registered attendees
- Jehosaphat Gully Picnic Area, Kinglake National Park
- Horsham Neighbourhood House
- Gembrook
- Nagambie and surrounds
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