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Good News - First 1600ha of High Conservation Value Forest Reserved in Strzelecki Ranges
May 28, 2018
Friends of the Earth received the good news that the first 1600ha of land, in the long running Strzelecki Ranges Rainforest Cores and Links saga, was Gazetted by the Victorian State Government on the...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareFriends of the Earth welcomes Strzelecki Reserve Announcement
October 04, 2017
October 4, 2017 Environmental organisation Friends of the Earth (FoE) today welcomed Minister Lily D'Ambrosio's announcement that 1,200 hectares of land, including the Nationally significant College Creek has been handed back to the State....
Read More Add your reaction ShareShocking footage shows koalas caught in logging
February 04, 2015
Friends of the Earth has been alarmed by new footage showing that koalas are still be impacted on by plantation logging in South West Victoria.
Read More Add your reaction ShareNew Koala Report Predicts No Easy Answer to Plantation Dilemma.
July 24, 2014
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH PRESS RELEASE Thursday July 24 2014 Friends of the Earth today released a new report on koalas and plantations. “The report hopes to shed some new light on this disastrous...
Read More Add your reaction ShareStrzelecki Koala Research Project
July 14, 2014
Over the last 6 months Friends of the Earth has been involved in a project mapping population numbers of the Strzelecki Koala. The Strzelecki Koala is the only remnant koala population remaining in Victoria...
Read More Add your reaction ShareMassive Koala Petition Handed to Victorian Government
February 20, 2014
A petition signed by over 83,000 people asking the Victorian Government to do more to protect koalas has been delivered to the Government. The petition, organised by the German environmental group Rainforest Rescue, was...
Read More Add your reaction ShareEnvironment Groups Disappointed with Senate Committee recommendations on Koalas
February 20, 2014
Friends of the Earth and Friends of Gippsland Bush today announced that they were disappointed with recommendations made by the Senate Standing Committee on the Status, Health and Sustainability of Australia's Koala Population.
Read More Add your reaction ShareStrzelecki Rainforest Reserve Regeneration Being Destroyed.
February 20, 2014
October 3, 2013 Conservationists are alarmed that recent clearing in the Strzelecki Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve has destroyed approximately 10 hectares of regenerating reserve at several different locations inside the reserve. Conservationists are...
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