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Friends of the Earth Melbourne is excited to share that we are organising a second Snow Gum Summit, which will take place in March 2026 on Ngarigo Country in Jindabyne. The Summit will bring...

The Victorian Labor announced today that it will act on advice from two key consultation processes that were launched to determine the future of Victoria’s native forests on public land, after the cessation of...

Globally, Alpine Ecosystems are in trouble. Right now our snow gums, an iconic feature of the Australian alps, are facing a mass mortality event and are at risk of ecological collapse due to dieback...

Winning a significant campaign can take years of work. We are really pleased to be able to tell you about some great developments on snow gums that we have recently helped achieve. You may...

Photo credit: Powerful Owl in the Mirboo North IPA, by Bill Blomeley via Preserve Our Forests Mirboo North. Friends of the Earth Melbourne welcomes the long-awaited creation of protected areas via Minister Dimopoulos' Parks and...

Snow gum communities across the high country face an existential threat from the combined impacts of dieback and more frequent and intense fire seasons. Sadly the isolated pockets of snow gums away from the...

The backcountry film festival is a pre winter institution in Melbourne. We have been screening the festival each year since 2011. The program is put together by Winter Wildlands Alliance, and celebrates the power...

Kinglake Friends of the Forest (KFF) have expressed extreme concern over plans by Forest Fire Management Victoria (FFMV) to carry out a fuel hazard reduction burn in Flowerdale today (25 March 2025). Sue McKinnon,...

While the flooding from ex Tropical Cyclone Alfred continues to impact northern NSW and southern Queensland and a long clean up gets underway, fire season drags on in much of the rest of the...

Forest Fire Management Victoria (FFMV) is currently in the process of burning significant areas of Gippsland (and elsewhere in the state) as part of it’s planned burn program. Planned burning is intended to reduce...