MEDIA RELEASE 23 February 2021 | A new report showing analysis of maps and data from the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires has revealed the significant areas of unburnt forests critical […]...

REPORT 2021 |  This report After the Fires: protecting our forest refuges –critical areas for protecting fauna and flora affected by the 2019–20 bushfires analyses the impacts of the 2019/20...

PARK WATCH December 2020 | What do four inquiries have to say about last summer’s bushfires? Campaigner Phil Ingamells looks at some eyebrow-raising recommendations....

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Download submission Attachment 1. Victoria’s fire history to 2020 Attachment 2. VNPA submission to 2015 IGEM Inquiry Attachment 3. JB Fire sequence Kinglake Attachment 4. Burn history around...

PARK WATCH March 2020 | Our native plants and animals have had a long and troubled parent-child relationship with fire. It might be becoming an irreconcilable one, writes VNPA Parks Protection...

PARK WATCH March 2020 | Can we control fire with fire? Will more fuel reduction burning really save us and the bush we love? It’s time for a new approach, not […]...

PARK WATCH March 2020 | Short-term economic gain, long-term ecological damage – VNPA Nature Conservation Campaigner John Kotsiaris denounces salvage logging. Victoria is already Australia’s most...

MEDIA RELEASE 23 January 2020 | The Victorian Government’s announcement of a $17.5 million fire response and recovery package for nature is a welcome step forward, but needs to be matched...

Fire management is a serious and truly complicated thing. The fuel that feeds fire is also our great natural heritage. The impact of bushfires on the physical, emotional and economic […]...