MEDIA RELEASE 1 July 2024 | Blatant clearing, noxious weeds and systematic mismanagement is still rife in Victoria’s most threatened ecosystem, according to a ‘People’s Audit’ conducted by...

PARK WATCH Article June 2024 | Now is the perfect time to expand and improve our national park network, explains Matt Ruchel, Executive Director National parks are the cornerstone of […]...

PARK WATCH Article June 2024 | It’s time for a public accounting of the MSA conservation areas, says Adrian Marshall, Grassy Plains Network Facilitator Two years ago, I got a […]...

PARK WATCH Article June 2024 | Katherine Horsfall is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, researching urbanisation as a huge driver for the loss of native grassy ecosystems […]...

PARK WATCH Article March 2024 | Grassy Plains Coordinator, Adrian Marshall, assesses strategic assessments There is lots of talk around the reform of Australia’s national nature laws, the...

PARK WATCH Article March 2024 | Adrian Marshall, Grassy Plains Coordinator, on the recommendations of the latest State of the Environment report The Allan Government must do more to protect...

Geelong and Melbourne are bursting at the seams. Our towns and cities are looking for ways to accommodate our growing communities. The City of Greater Geelong wants to build new […]...

PARK WATCH Article June 2023 | Grassy Plains Network Facilitator Adrian Marshall says radical changes are needed if the Government is to succeed in retaining the last one per cent […]...

PARK WATCH Article June 2023 | Adrian Marshall asks: Does the Geelong Strategic Assessment threaten nature? Geelong’s Northern and Western Growth Areas are 6,000 hectares earmarked for...

The Victorian Volcanic Plains were once home to bandicoots, potoroos, quolls, bilbies, marsupial mice and more. The vast majority of these never-to-be-seen-again creatures relied on grassland...