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.
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.
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.