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Lobbying against environmental threats on the unceded lands of the GunaiKurnai, Yaitmathang, Ngarigo and Bidwell Peoples
Fire News and Media and Events
Why native forest logging is the ‘zombie’ industry that won’t die
Under an expanded “strategic fuel break” program, DEECA plans to construct 6000 kms of fire break tracks, up to 40 metres wide, through state forests and national parks by 2030 . Professor David Lindenmayer, one of the world’s most cited ecologists, said he was yet to see evidence that the government’s fuel breaks program would reduce bushfire risks.
Feathers to the flames
by Louise Crisp
"We won’t stand by as this critically endangered population is driven to extinction."
Send a message today: Stop Works. Protect Greater Glider homes
FFMV must put down their chainsaws and stop cutting down hollow-bearing trees in the Yarra Ranges National Park.These works must cease until a proper ecological assessment is done.
Send your elected leaders a message today.
Sign the petition: Stop broadscale burning of native forest
Evidence shows that this approach is not only damaging to the climate, human health, and the environment but is also ineffective in reducing bushfire risk.
Has logging really ended in VIC?
What the death of an endangered glider tells us.
By itself, the death of one glider would be sad. But its death speaks to a larger problem. Three kinds of logging are continuing in Victoria’s forests, for fuel breaks, salvage logging after windstorms, and logging on private land.
The Conversation: Lindenmayer, Taylor, Ashman
20 May 2024
Forest up in Smoke
Forest Fire Management Victoria, (FFMV) plan to burn 11,000 hectares of Glossy Black Cockatoo critical habitat in East Gippsland over the next 3 years, 2024 – 2026.
Bushfire response branded 'excessive'
There’s nothing normal about a confronting map showing hundreds of planned burns scheduled across the state. On Thursday DEECA had scheduled 1000 burns for the next three years, including over 120 planned for the next 10 days.
Severe bushfire risk increased by hazard reduction burns, report finds
ABC South East NSW By James Tugwell
1 Feb 2024
Victorian Forest Alliance citizen science team surveys
Threatened species on unceded Brabralung Country in planned burn areas
Research shows old forests are 3 times less flammable than those just burned
We found over time, some forests “thin” themselves and become less likely to burn – and hazard-reduction burning disrupts this process.
After the Fires. Protecting our forest refuges
Critical areas for protecting fauna and flora affected by the 2019–20 bushfires. Analyses the impacts of the bushfires on select species. Victorian National Parks Association
Fury Over Planned Burns
A protest outside Bairnsdale DELWP has halted a planned burn at Trident Arm in Lake Tyers State Park
Like the fires never happened: Residents alarmed at Gippsland burns
“This is vandalism and it makes me wild. So many old trees burning up. And when the scrub grows back thick after the burn, you won’t be able to walk through here.” Gunai Bidwell man Derek Hayes visited Mitchell River National Park after the latest planned burns.
Conservation watchdog investigates: Is bushfire tree removal 'overzealous'?
“We fear that demands from industry for salvage logging of burnt public forests is already happening under the guise of road clearing operations.”
Cabbage Tree Palms Flora Reserve
Trees felled to edge of rainforest
“Hundreds, possibly thousands, of trees have been felled in protected forest areas with the approval of DELWP..."
Community Rally at DELWP Bairnsdale for greater protection of biodiversity in planned burns
A crowd gathered outside the Bairnsdale DELWP office to protest at the failure to protect threatened species and ecosystems from the impact of planned burns.
Community perspectives on Government fire policy
With Wayne Thorpe Gunnai Custodian, Dr David Cheal, the community view from the ground showing impacts on Parks and Reserves and Peter Gardner, planned burns and climate change
Providence Ponds Fauna and Flora Reserve - threatened New Holland mouse incinerated
In early May, the site of a colony of the rare New Holland Mouse was incinerated in a fuel reduction burn. Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning and Forest Five Management Victoria carried out the burn in the Providence Ponds Flora and Fauna Reserve west of Bairnsdale.
Open letter: Nowa Nowa- Nelsons Rd Burn 2BNN0029 – request pause and review
Gippsland Environment Group is very concerned about a scheduled burn due to be ignited in East Gippsland along the Ramsar listed Lake Tyers downstream of the township of Nowa Nowa
A public forum on fire to discuss various aspects of fire management including biodiversity loss, forest type, age, fire severity, climate change and public safety, as well options for future management.