Take action: cracking the fire code

Fire management is serious and truly complicated. It needs to protect lives and look after our natural living web. At the moment the bushfire ‘Code’ used to manage fire on […]...
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Life after fire

PARK WATCH Article December 2023 | Dr Sera Blair, NatureWatch Coordinator, reports on three years of post-fire wildlife monitoring in East Gippsland Since the devastating bushfires in 2019-2020, vast...
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Wrong fire, wrong place

PARK WATCH Article December 2023 | Bertram Lobert, Save Our Strathbogie Forest President, on the balancing act between fire and Greater Gliders Taking legal action is no small thing for […]...
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Enfield Grevillea victim of a flawed experiment

PARK WATCH Article December 2023 | Ben Gill, Nature Conservation Campaigner, investigates disregard for national nature laws  VNPA was shocked to discover the Department of Energy, Environment and...
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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 […]...
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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...
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New state of environment report: All decline no action

NEWS 16 December 2021 | The Victorian State of the Environment (SOE) Biodiversity Update 2021 Report was released this week. In short, the report only reinforces the need for more […]...
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Fire break shenanigans

PARK WATCH Article December 2021 | As Victoria embarks on a truly massive fuel break construction program, the justifications for it are wearing thin, says Phil Ingamells....
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Fire management needs some open scrutiny

PARK WATCH September 2021 | Fire affects us all, and it affects all of Victoria’s environment. So surely its management warrants ongoing, rigorous, independent evaluation, says Phil Ingamells. If...
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