Your voice is incredibly important. Use it to call out VicForests. Under the guise of  ‘salvage logging’ rules, VicForests is expanding logging in the proposed Wombat-Lerderderg National...

PARK WATCH Article December 2021 | Central west parks creation legislation drags as a new species is found in Wombat Forest, writes Executive Director Matt Ruchel....

NEWS 29 June 2021 | On the 24 June 2021, The Victorian Government responded to the VEAC Central West Investigation about new national parks in central west Victoria. The government […]...

MEDIA RELEASE 24 June 2021 | The Andrews Government has just announced a huge milestone: the creation of three new national parks....

TAKE ACTION | The forests of the central west remain unprotected. On 21 June 2019, the Andrews Government was handed an expert report recommending the protection of 60,000 hectares of […]...

MEDIA RELEASE 21 June 2021 | The Andrews Government is “all talk, no protection” when it comes to delivering on two-year old expert recommendations to protect 60,000ha of forest and...

MEDIA RELEASE 27 April 2021 | Over forty state, national and international groups representing hundreds of thousands of Victorians, call on the Andrews’ Government to accept recommendations for new...

TAKE ACTION | A mighty collaboration of groups are using a series of full page ads in six papers across key regional centres (Bendigo, Ballarat, Castlemaine, Moorabool, Daylesford, Macedon) to...

PARK WATCH March 2021 | Investment in nature protection provides great economic benefits, explains Executive Director Matt Ruchel. We know the forests of the Central West are home to 370 […]...

PARK WATCH March 2021 | Whoo hoo – a fantasic find in the forest shared by Nature Conservation Campaigner Jordan Crook. With deep hoots, Powerful Owls have been discovered for […]...