PARK WATCH December 2020 | Michael Feller, VNPA Council Member and Conservation Committee Co-Chair, writes of the ongoing loss of our invaluable old trees....

Ask the Victorian Premier and State Environment Minister to create new national parks in Wombat, Wellsford, Pyrenees and Mount Cole Forests. The forests of the central west extraordinary. They...

MEDIA RELEASE 20 October 2020 | Nature-starved Melburnians yearn for the bush and new national parks, according to new opinion poll results. A new opinion poll of 1,009 Melburnians over the age of...

PARK WATCH September 2020 | We are increasingly alarmed by the Andrews Government’s delay in approving newional parks – especially as it continues to make decisions to the detriment of...

Victoria’s latest threatened species is the Mount Cole Grevillea. The flame-red beauty is found nowhere else on earth but the forests of the state’s central west. But without protection, this...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | Nature Conservation Campaigner Jordan Crook on the continued logging in the Central West. The forests and woodlands of Victoria’s west are sometimes referred to as the...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | The first threatened species detection report has been submitted for the west, shares Nature Conservation Campaigner Jordan Crook....

PARK WATCH June 2020 | Amid the COVID-19 shutdowns in early April, the Victorian and Commonwealth governments re-signed their agreement for logging native forests for a further ten years. By...

PARK WATCH June 2020 | Native forest logging in the West RFA was largely squashed – but it has now returned, Executive Director Matt Ruchel explains....

The natural wonders of the central west are being logged, and mined. They should already be protected as permanent wildlife refuges. It’s been two years since experts recommended protecting...