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Snow Gums and Citizen Science
November 05, 2021
Snow Gums face a massive threat from the spread of dieback which is caused by a native beetle – and super charged by climate change, and localised collapse of snow gum woodlands due to...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareOur forests are under attack – join us for an urgent webinar
July 27, 2021
The Victorian environment minister’s office has refused to extend public consultation on alarming changes that would significantly deregulate logging in Victoria’s native forests and undermine community legal challenges to perceived illegal logging. Join us...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareAlberton West State Forest Targeted by VicForests
July 18, 2021
Local residents near the Yarram region in South Gippsland have recently been dismayed that their beloved local forest, Alberton West State Forest, has been earmarked by VicForests for logging. Local residents have protested the...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareIndigenous Elder Stresses Importance of Snobs Creek
April 29, 2021
At a recent meeting with Friends of the Earth, Taungurung Nira-Balluck Elder, Uncle Larry Walsh highlighted concerns over clearfelling of his traditional country by VicForests. Several coupes have already been cut in the Snobs...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareA logging road in the Alpine National Park?
April 06, 2021
The state government logging agency, VicForests, intends to log a total of 11 “coupes”, or sections, of mature forest, much of it dominated by Alpine Ash, in the headwaters of the Little Dargo River,...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareWhy save Snobs Creek and the Rubicon Forest?
March 19, 2021
Dr. Lea Jellinek: ‘Why we need to Save the Rubicon Forest?’ at the Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday St, Carlton for 7 - 9:30pm, Wed 14 April 2021. You are invited to come with Lea...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareCreating an extended Snobs Creek Wildlife Reserve for nature based tourism
February 15, 2021
The Central Highlands, to the east and north east of Melbourne are an incredible biodiversity hotspot, with varied landscapes, beautiful rivers, and heavily treed mountains with forests of Mountain Ash and remnants of cool...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareLogging threatens recreation and tourism
January 12, 2021
The current VicForest Timber Release Plan shows logging of native forests in the Central Highlands is scheduled to occur in areas very close to recreational roads and tracks where people regularly enjoy hiking, horse...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareParliamentary Inquiry into tackling the extinction crisis in Victoria
July 10, 2020
We rely on healthy ecosystems for our survival. Victoria is the most cleared state in the country and natural ecosystems have faced centuries of land clearing, logging, invasion of invasive species and, now fire...
Read More Add your reaction ShareNo Salvage Logging in Victorian Forest
June 30, 2020
You might be forgiven for thinking that once an area of forest has been burnt, it is essentially a dead zone, a pile of charred remains, devoid of life or possibility. You’d be wrong....
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