Picture this: rolling grassy plains full of wild flower meadows, stretching from the western suburbs of Melbourne to the South Australian border. Since colonisation nearly all of Victoria’s...

PARK WATCH Article March 2023 | Land acquisition has failed to obtain the best bits of the Western Grassland Reserve. That has to change. It’s time for some big thinking, says […]...

NEWS 20 February 2023 | Page last updated: 21/02/2023 What is the best way to create a trail of destruction through a field of Spiny Rice-flowers, Button Wrinkleworts and Arching […]...

NEWS 28 January 2022 | Page last updated: 28/01/2023 Grasslands are subtle. To the untrained eye the rich web of life that lives within them isn’t obvious. Animals and plants […]...

PARK WATCH Article November 2022 | Despite their importance and diversity – and the science – Victoria’s grasslands are experiencing an ongoing decline. Adrian Marshall, Facilitator of the...

NEWS 11 August 2022 | A supposedly protected swathe of Victoria’s last remaining old-growth grassland has been destroyed following illegal dumping. Conservation Area 9 was a precious old-growth...

NEWS 3 June 2022 | In a victory as rare as the Spiny Riceflower, the Grassy Plains Network has saved an endangered grassland from destruction! Last Friday, the Grassy Plains […]...

PARK WATCH June 2021 | Nature Conservation Campaigner Jordan Crook takes us to visit our most at risk ecosystems. Amongst the existing suburbs and factories of the western suburbs of […]...

PARK WATCH March 2021 | Who would have thought? Asks Executive Director Matt Ruchel. “Ineffective”, leading to “piecemeal decisions”, “outdated”, and “not fit to address current or...

PARK WATCH September 2020 | The failures in protecting one of our most critically endangered ecosystems – grasslands – from Melbourne’s ever-increasing urban sprawl is finally being publicly...