A decisive moment for nature in the Yarra Ranges An open letter to Planning Minister Lizzie Blandthorn We write to you about your role in deciding the future of the Yarra Ranges National Park –...

Call on your leaders to protect our precious Greater Gliders. Greater Gliders have just been moved from vulnerable to endangered on the federal government’s list of threatened species. In practical...

MEDIA RELEASE  6 July 2022 | Greater Glider endangered status makes protection of Wombat Forest more urgent Ongoing habitat destruction has landed Victoria’s Greater Glider on the endangered...

Destroying habitat, risking nativeildlife and the biosecurity of the Yarra Ranges National Park contradicts the National Parks Act. But that’shat the Yarra Ranges Council is planning. They...

NEWS 21 March 2022 | Yet another audit of our nation’s nature protection laws adds to the growing pile of evidence that this legislation is not doing what it is designed to do – protect nature....

NEWS 2 February 2021 | The World Economic Forum has declared that the climate crisis is the biggest global threat, and that failure to act on climate change is the most significant global risk....

NEWS 16 December 2021 | The Victorian State of the Environment (SOE) Biodiversity Update 2021 Report was released this week. In short, the report only reinforces the need for more government action...

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...