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Victoria's precious native forests are still under threat. 

Planned Burns, Loophole Logging, inadequate laws, and weakened environmental oversight are destroying these forests and putting all life at risk.

Victoria’s forests are globally significant, storing carbon, regulating water, and sheltering thousands of species. They also influence bushfire behaviour. And despite the so-called end of native forest logging, industrial-scale disturbance is happening in these forests.

We're fighting to stop this destruction, and we need your support.

 

We urgently need to rethink how we protect our forests and communities from bushfires.

The science is in. Planned burns don't work. They don't stop bushfires. In fact, they can make forests more flammable.

Planned burns harm human health, destroy habitat, kill wildlife, and threaten biodiversity. We are calling for an immediate Pause and Review of Forest Fire Management Victoria's operations, and a redirection of funds into rapid detection and suppression.

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Loophole Logging across the state means that forests are still being chopped down.

We are seeing huge quantities of strategic fuel breaks, salvage logging, thinning, and logging on private land across the state.

Though native forest logging supposedly ended in 2023, mismanagement of our publicly owned, shared forests continues. Much of this mismanagement is logging under a different name. 

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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.

 

 

 

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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: ‘Bad deal for taxpayers’: huge losses from NSW forest logging, reports reveal

December 18, 2024

Former MP astonished that taxpayers are ‘literally paying’ to cut down forests sustaining koalas and greater gliders and providing clean drinking water
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Pearls & Irritations: Saving the greater glider from extinction, one den tree at a time

December 13, 2024

Government inaction has prompted conservation groups to apply citizen science and sleepless nights to find greater glider den trees and use the NSW logging industry’s own rules to prevent logging and save...
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The Guardian: Maps reveal parts of protected Tasmanian native forest that could be opened to logging, environmentalists say

December 13, 2024

Mapping based on documents released under right-to-information laws show proposed areas include habitats for 37 threatened species
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The Age: ‘Chaos’: Parks Victoria under review as national parks promises broken

December 05, 2024

The Victorian government has abandoned a promise to create new national parks in the state’s central west by the end of this year, amid internal pressure over management of the environment and...
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ABC News: Documents reveal plans to make 39,000 hectares of native Tasmanian forest available for logging

December 05, 2024

Right to Information documents have shown the biodiversity values, extent of old growth, and potential logging methods for 39,000 hectares of native Tasmanian forest that could soon be made available for logging.
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Yahoo!News: Deal to protect Australia's native forests blocked amid 'bullying' claims

November 28, 2024

Australia is the only developed nation to be declared a deforestation hotspot. A new deal would have protected what remains of the nation's forests.
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Yahoo!News: Rare Aussie bird under threat over common tree practice: 'Catastrophic'

November 21, 2024

A fierce debate is raging over a plan to torch forest that rare glossy black cockatoos call home.
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ABC News: Black Summer biodiversity study suggests rethink of prescribed burns and fire management in Australia

November 15, 2024

How often and where prescribed burning takes place needs a rethink if Australia's plants and animals are to be preserved, according to a study of biodiversity loss due to the Black Summer...
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TWS: Federal subsidies used to ship Lutruwita / Tasmanian native forest logs to the mainland

November 15, 2024

A federal inquiry has revealed that up to 150,000 tonnes of hardwood sourced from Lutruwita/Tasmania’s native forests and plantations were shipped across the Bass Strait to supply mills on the mainland in...
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