PARK WATCH Article December 2021 | Executive Director Matt Ruchel says it is time to stop the decline and start recovery. ...

UPDATED 9 May 2022 | Can you imagine finding an Eastern Quoll in your garden shed? Or a Regent Honeyeater visiting your window sill? Or at the beach, a Hooded Plover guarding its nest in the sand,...

Our native animals and natural places are part of what makes Victoria the place to be. But within a few generations, once-common animals and plants have all but disappeared. The Ecosystem Decline...

PARK WATCH September 2021 | The proposed changes to the Code of Timber Production include adding new protections for large trees in Victoria, writes Campaigner Jordan Crook.  The Environment...

MEDIA RELEASE 10 September 2021 | Legislation introduced to Victoria’s Parliament this week is not the best way to improve management of the Great Ocean Road. “Establishing a new Great Ocean Road...

NEWS 3 September 2021 | Victoria’s beautiful beaches and ocean might not be within reach to all of us at the moment, but they’re definitely on our mind. And, after reading this, hopefully...

TAKE ACTION | The Victorian Government is doing a Major Event Review on the impact the 2019-20 bushfires had on native forests and the native forest logging industry. It’s hard to forget the...

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Most Victorians assume our state Wildlife Act exists to protect wildlife. In reality, the Wildlife Act 1975 largely exists to protect exotic game animals (like deer) and regulate the destruction...

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 “Ineffective”, leading to “piecemeal decisions”, “outdated”, and “not fit to address current or...