Mason Falls through the trees in Kinglake National Park

Labor dumps popular national park plan after union lobbying

MEDIA RELEASE 4 July 2025 | The Allan Labor Government has dumped long-standing plans for a new Great Forest National Park in Victoria’s Central Highlands after Electrical Trades Union lobbying....
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Create the Great Forest National Park

TAKE ACTION | The towering Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands are a refuge. Tiny, Critically Endangered Leadbeater’s Possums, Greater Gliders and Powerful, Sooty and Masked Owls all...
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Landslide for Labor, but what about nature?

PARK WATCH Article June 2025 | With the 2025 federal election done and dusted, Matt Ruchel, Executive Director, asks how did nature fare in the mix of culture wars and […]...
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Allan abandons Victoria’s nature protection legacy

NEWS 20 May 2025 | It looks like the Allan Government has officially abandoned Victoria’s decades long legacy of evidence-led nature protection. Contradictions in policy positions continue to...
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Connect and protect Western Port Woodlands forever

TAKE ACTION | The Victorian Government just officially recognised the distinctive magic of the Western Port Woodlands. Recognition is fantastic. But landscape protection is what matters. Snuffly...
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Good news for nature!

Protection for wildlife and habitats is about to be boosted.  From fragile alpine fens, to box-ironbark forests, underwater kelp forests and rare remnant grasslands, habitats across Australia are...
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Adopt the Big 21 for our big trees

TAKE ACTION | Big old hollow-bearing trees are the life force of our forests.  They’re home to native animals, like Powerful Owls and Critically Endangered Greater Gliders.  But a bad […]...
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End habitat logging on private land

TAKE ACTION | Habitat destruction in native forests is still happening. But this time, it’s on private property. And who suffers? Threatened plants, animals and the natural web of life....
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