Help lift the lid on destructive or ineffective planned burns
The Victorian Forest Alliance has established a citizens’ database of problems with government planned burns to identify destructive or negligent ‘management’ carried out in Victoria by the government agency Forest Fire Management Victoria (FFMV).
We are specifically asking about "planned burns", which are pre-planned fires by the government, usually outside of the fire season. We do not mean "back burns" which are lit during a bushfire in an attempt to control the bushfire.
Examples of the following bad management have already been reported to us:
• Burning known threatened species habitat
• Planned burns that escaped
• Burns that damaged or burnt private property
• Health impacts from the smoke
• Excessive clearing of so-called fuel breaks or road widening
• Hollow bearing trees burnt out and/or felled
• Evidence of burnt or dead wildlife
Fill in the form at this link to provide any information you'd like to share.
Or you can download this Word document, fill it in and email back to us. Send to [email protected] with "FFMV Burns" in the subject line.
Complete whatever is relevant or add more information if needed.
Feel free to email us, without using the form, if you prefer to simply report in your own words. Please also send any relevant photos, maps or links you see on media/social media posts.
Please provide your contact details in your email to us, if you’d be happy for us to talk with you further about your report.
Let us know if you’d prefer your information to be for internal use only, or if you’d be happy for it to be made public via our website.
We will be compiling all the data we receive from you and using it for our ongoing campaign - Rethinking Planned Burns. We want a new, science-based approach to fire management in our forests.
Names and personal details will never be made public or shared beyond the VFA Committee and staff without prior contact and permission from you.
You can find the government’s burn plans and the maps at the bottom of this FFMV website page.
You can also see details and mapping of actual prior year burns on the Victorian Forest Alliance's Forest Mapping Tool.
For more information about the science challenging planned burns, see our Rethinking Planned Burns page.