Take action to defend our national park legacy

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...
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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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Connect and protect Western Port Woodlands forever

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...
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Good news for nature!

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...
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Shut and reveg Chiltern’s illegal tracks

TAKE ACTION | Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park is a Box-Ironbark forest of wildflowers, rare orchids and native wildlife. There’s Brush-tailed Phascogales, Squirrel Gliders, Lace Monitors,...
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Undermining nature in Chiltern-Mt Pilot

PARK WATCH Article March 2025 | Jordan Crook, Parks and Nature Campaigner, says the Environment Minister’s intervention with illegal tracks left a national park in worse shape When Parks Victoria...
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Our parks under attack in a swarm of spin

PARK WATCH Article March 2025 | Executive Director, Matt Ruchel, says the Victorian Government’s approach to parks and public land management is veering into dangerous territory Slashing funding,...
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Dyurrite Cultural Landscape Plan

Striking the balance for nature, culture and recreation Rising abruptly from the once-forested earth around it, Dyurrite (Mount Arapiles) is striking, and spectacular.  The rock formation is part of...
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New national roadmap to give nature a fair go

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...
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Mt Feathertop untamed. Photo: Mark Darragh

An elephant crossing the Alps

PARK WATCH Article September 2024 | The Victoria Government’s scheme for the Falls to Hotham Alpine Crossing stands as a huge white elephant, says Gerard McPhee Earlier this year, the […]...
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