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Tomorrow at 12 noon Hannah Patchett will formally launch her time dwelling in Toolangi’s treetops. The Little Red Toolangi Treehouse has been built 50 metres up into the canopy of an area of forest...

Just two days out from the federal election, and with no sign of a comprehensive biodiversity or environment policy from either Prime Minister Rudd or Tony Abbott, threatened species habitat continues to fall to...

It’s the next wave of destruction for our native forests. The forestry and energy industries are now poised to unleash their plans to feed our forests into furnaces to produce electricity, convert them into...

The political terrain around environmental issues is shifting. The government knows it. They ignore rising community concern at their own peril.

The following is the last post from the community group that defended the Coomoora woodland in south eastern Melbourne for so long. Heavy machinery moved into Coomoora on 12 January 2011, reducing much of...

Cattle were removed from the Alpine National Park in 2005 by the government of Steve Bracks. This was an important step forward for good land management in our state. Since then, some of the...

Monday 16 September, 2013 Known forest habitat for the endangered Leadbeater’s Possum is today being highlighted by conservationists as state government loggers, VicForests, continues to allow bulldozers in the Toolangi State Forest.

August 13 2013 PRESS RELEASE Environmental organisations Friends of the Earth and Friends of Gippsland Bush today released a detailed case study investigating the impacts of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification on the rainforests...

Five months ago Friends of the Earth joined the Yorta Yorta people and Red Gum Forest Action in a protest that stopped logging in the Millewa State Forest for ten days. We took this...

Legislation passed by the Victorian Parliament last night created almost 100,000 hectares of new River Red Gum National Parks from Lake Hume to the South Australian border. And in a state first, the legislation...