Yes to new parks!

TAKE ACTION We’re so close to getting new national parks in central west Victoria! The Wombat-Lerderderg, Mount Buangor and Pyrenees national parks (and conservation parks) will keep wildlife and...
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Action: make our new parks official

TAKE ACTION | We’re so close to getting new national and conservation parks in central west Victoria! The Wombat-Lerderderg, Mount Buangor and Pyrenees national parks (and conservation parks)...
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Central west parks

TAKE ACTION | The forests of the central west are extraordinary. They’re refuges for wildlife and people, places of connection to Country for First Nations communities. These forests and woodlands...
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Mason Falls through the trees in Kinglake National Park

Labor dumps popular national park plan after union lobbying

MEDIA RELEASE 4 July 2025 | The Allan Labor Government has dumped long-standing plans for a new Great Forest National Park in Victoria’s Central Highlands after Electrical Trades Union lobbying....
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Landslide for Labor, but what about nature?

PARK WATCH Article June 2025 | With the 2025 federal election done and dusted, Matt Ruchel, Executive Director, asks how did nature fare in the mix of culture wars and […]...
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Allan abandons Victoria’s nature protection legacy

NEWS 20 May 2025 | It looks like the Allan Government has officially abandoned Victoria’s decades long legacy of evidence-led nature protection. Contradictions in policy positions continue to...
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Create our central west parks once and for all!

TAKE ACTION | Tell your elected representatives to give our landscapes and rare wildlife the protection they promised. Four years ago the Victorian Government said they’d enshrine 60,000...
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