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 “Ineffective”, leading to “piecemeal decisions”, “outdated”, and “not fit to address current or...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 March 2021 | We must protect our forest refuges. By Jordan Crook and Matt Ruchel. In a year where the word ‘unprecedented’ was overused to the point of […]...

The 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires burnt more than 1.25 million hectares of forest across eastern Victoria, killing millions of wildlife. A year on, the animals and plants spared from the […]...

MEDIA RELEASE 23 February 2021 | A new report showing analysis of maps and data from the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires has revealed the significant areas of unburnt forests critical […]...

REPORT 2021 |  This report After the Fires: protecting our forest refuges –critical areas for protecting fauna and flora affected by the 2019–20 bushfires analyses the impacts of the 2019/20...

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

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

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 […]...

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...