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Despite the official end of native forest logging in Victoria, our precious native forests are still under threat.

We need your help to protect these forests from new and emerging threats: unscientific prescribed burning, inadequate environmental protection laws, and logged areas left as wastelands.  

We're fighting to stop this destruction.

We are facing the new reality of far more work needing to be done to protect and restore Victoria's native forests. 

We need your support to continue our vital work to protect forests.

The Victorian Forest Alliance brings together 40 groups actively protecting native forests across Victoria.

 

Collectively, we have decades of experience working with our local communities. Our mission is to protect and restore native forests across the state.

The forests we defend and restore are unceded lands. We recognise and respect that the forests which we work to protect exist on a number of different Sovereign Aboriginal Nations and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

Our citizen science project helps protect wildlife and threatened species in forests scheduled for logging and planned burns.

 

We work closely with citizen science groups like Kinglake Friends of the Forest, Gippsland Environment Group, and Wildlife of the Central Highlands (WOTCH) to conduct wildlife surveys in forests scheduled for logging and planned burns.

Read more about the program here.

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Rescue and Transport Training With Wildlife Victoria

Saturday 12 Oct 2024 at 09:00 AM
Various
Sign up to one of Wildlife Victoria's upcoming basic rescue and transport training! VFA member, Ballarat Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation Inc, are specifically putting the callout for folks in the Ballarat region,...

Natural Treasures in Spring - Seymour Bushland Park

Sunday 13 Oct 2024 at 10:00 AM
Seymour Bushland Park in Seymour, Australia
Explore the Seymour Bushland Park with BEAM Mitchell Environment Group! Seymour Bushland Park is a rich place for native plants and wildlife on the edge of Seymour. It was an army camp and...

Platy Spotting at Merri Creek

Tuesday 29 Oct 2024 at 05:00 PM
Egan Reserve in Thornbury, Australia
"Join ACF Melbourne NXNW and ACF Inner Melbourne creekside for an evening finding out how to look for platypus and whether we can see any in this stretch of the Merri. We...
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Mythbusters: The Truth About National Parks

Thursday 31 Oct 2024 at 06:30 PM
Zoom
Join VFA for the sixth in our webinar series on the emerging threats to Victoria's native forests: unscientific planned burns, inadequate environmental protection laws, and logged areas being left as wastelands. Our...

Rally for National Forests with Bob Brown Foundation

Sunday 3 Nov 2024 at 10:30 AM
Princes Park in Carlton North, Australia
Join the Bob Brown Foundation and thousands of forest defenders across the country at the Melbourne Rally for Native Forests, calling for an end to native forest logging nationally, and for the...

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MEDIA RELEASE: Alarming discovery by citizen scientists sparks concerns illegal logging will continue

June 28, 2023

Citizen scientists from Wildlife of the Central Highlands (WOTCH) and the Victorian Forest Alliance (VFA) have discovered state-owned logging company VicForests has continued to illegally destroy numerous endangered Tree Geebungs while doing ‘regeneration’ works. The area is within the Immediate Protection Areas announced by...

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The Guardian: Albanese urged to ditch Howard-era native forest logging exemptions

October 03, 2024

Exclusive: independent MPs and Lidia Thorpe tell PM that environment law reforms under negotiation must remove exemptions for native forest logging.
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Sydney Morning Herald: Why native forest harvesting is the ‘zombie’ industry that won’t die - Victorian Forest Alliance

October 03, 2024

When the Victorian government announced it would stop logging its own native timber for commercial purposes, environment groups celebrated.
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The Age: Carbon ‘sharks’: How private companies are cashing in on ancient practices

October 03, 2024

First come the new utes, then come the questions. The carbon industry presents a generation-defining opportunity for Indigenous Australians, but there are concerns the rewards are not being fairly shared.
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What a year it's been! Here's our wrap-up for 2023

December 21, 2023

What an incredible 12 months it’s been for the Victorian Forest Alliance. It’s been such a pleasure to work together, and finally achieve the incredible result we got in May, with the...
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MEDIA RELEASE: End of native forest logging on January 1 paves the way for new National Parks

December 20, 2023

As Victoria prepares to end native forest logging within weeks, conservationists, citizen scientists and lawyers are calling on the Victorian Government to get on with creating new national parks in the Central...
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Wombat Forestcare: Fire risk mitigation or log grab?

December 19, 2023

Written by Gayle Osborne. From Wombat Forestcare newsletter - Issue 66, December 2023 Despite there being no evidence that the storm fallen timber in the Wombat Forest poses an increased fire risk,...
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ABC: Satellite AI analysis finds thousands of hectares of 'magnificent forests' in Victoria that haven't regenerated after logging

December 08, 2023

For decades, chainsaws have ripped through the native forests of south-east Australia. Across Australia, Victoria’s forests have been logged more than any other mainland state over the past two decades. Now the...
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VFA citizen science team surveys on unceded Brabralung Country in planned burn areas

November 27, 2023

Our fantastic team of citizen scientists recently worked with Gippsland Environment Group (GEG) and Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland to survey in forests on First Nations Brabralung Country in Mt Alfred,...
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ABC: Coalition of environmentalists call on Premier Jacinta Allan to abolish VicForests

October 09, 2023

Sixty Victorian not-for-profit organisations have written to Premier Jacinta Allan and Treasurer Tim Pallas to urge them to abolish state-owned logging business VicForests. They say the organisation has outlived its purpose and...
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