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 Network won their ...

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 Melbourne, the...

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 “Ineffective”, leading to “piecemeal decisions”, “outdated”, and “not fit to address current or...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...

PARK WATCH September 2020 | The reveal of the failures of the Melbourne Strategic Assessment (see previous article) comes right at a time when the Morrison Government is reviewing our national...

TAKE ACTION | The extensive exposé in The Age finally exposed the many failures in protecting one of our most critically endangered ecosystems – grasslands, grassy woodlands and grassy...

The grassy plains that once covered a third of Victoria were home to Bettongs, Eastern Quolls and Pig-footed Bandicoots. They shared these native prairies with White-footed Rabbit-rats, Victorian...

PARK WATCH March 2020 | New grassland revenue bill passes Parliament. The Melbourne Strategic Assessment (Environment Mitigation Levey) Bill 2019 passed the Victorian Parliament in early February....

PARK WATCH June 2019 | Ian Penna writes about what hasn’t happened in the past ten years. The Western Grassland Reserves were proposed to protect “the largest remaining concentration of volcanic...