MEDIA RELEASE 21 October 2025 | “It’s deeply disappointing and a missed opportunity for nature, Victoria’s publicly owned bushland and the communities who cherish...

TAKE ACTION | The towering Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands are a refuge. Tiny, Critically Endangered Leadbeater’s Possums, Greater Gliders and Powerful, Sooty and Masked Owls all...

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 […]...

TAKE ACTION | Our powerful national parks legacy is under attack. It’s not only rampant feral pests and climate disruption. It’s under attack from the very people charged with protecting...

TAKE ACTION | The Victorian Government just officially recognised the distinctive magic of the Western Port Woodlands. Recognition is fantastic. But landscape protection is what matters. Snuffly...

Protection for wildlife and habitats is about to be boosted.  From fragile alpine fens, to box-ironbark forests, underwater kelp forests and rare remnant grasslands, habitats across Australia are...

Three years ago the Victorian Government listened to the science. To community. They said they’d create new national parks in the central west. They said they’d stick up for endangered...

PARK WATCH Article September 2024 | There’s good (and not so good) news for the promised central west national parks We’ve lost count of the articles written, meetings held and […]...

Feral deer are trashing and trampling Victoria’s landscapes from Wilsons Prom to Mount Bogong. They’ve even spread into urban areas. The thing is, the Victorian Government list them as a...

PARK WATCH Article September 2024 | Matt Ruchel, Executive Director, reports on the progress of nature protection at home and abroad Australia leads the world in mammal extinctions, with one-in-five...