Webinar Recordings

Recording of Green Firewalls Webinar with Angelique Stefanatos

About the webinar This VFA webinar is with Angelique Stefanatos who developed the Green Fire-Walls project back in 2019 with a Gippsland Landcare Grant. This project came out of Angelique’s experience of...

Recording of The Planetary Importance of Giant Trees Webinar

About the webinar Brett Mifsud speaks about the planetary importance of our giant trees in south eastern Australia and his extraordinary adventures getting to know them and dealing with Governments! For over...

Recording of Gippsland Forest Guardians Webinar - The story of Fella’s Coupe

About the webinar After discovering Australia’s largest meta-population of the critically endangered Slender Tree-fern (Cyathea cunninghamii), some of which occurs in a ‘plantation’, the Gippsland Forest Guardians have been campaigning for the...

Recording of Making Peace with the Forests Webinar with Phil Zylstra

About the webinar In this thought-provoking webinar, "Making Peace with the Forests," Prof. Phil Zylstra will explore the deeper cultural and ecological dynamics of bushfire management in Australia. He will examine whether current burning...

Recording of 'They Shoot Koala's Don't They?' Webinar with Steve Phillips

About the webinar The recent aerial shooting of koalas in the Budj Bim NP shocked the world, and rightly so, it should not have happened at all. This presentation examines the spin...

Recording of Disturbance and Flammability Webinar with David Lindenmayer

David Lindenmayer: Disturbance-stimulated flammability – links between logging, previous fire and wildfire risk Click here to download the webinar summary info sheet. Australia is the most fire-prone continent on earth. However, in...

Recording of Challenging the Myth of Fuel Load Reduction Webinar with Karl Just

In this webinar, botanist and zoologist Karl Just presents the results of his work analysing the effectiveness of planned burning on reducing fuel loads and bushfire risk. Although it is well known...

Recording of Forest Mapping Tool Launch Webinar

Thank you to Paul Macgregor, Sue Ablitt and Alastair MacColl from Taylors for giving the presentation on how to use this incredible, publicly accessible Forest Mapping Tool. Find out more and use...

Recording of Mythbusters: The Truth About National Parks

Thank you to Matt Ruchel, Executive Director at the Victorian National Parks Association, for being our guest speaker for the sixth in VFA's 2024 Webinar Series. To support VFA to continue having...

Recording of Reimagining Native Forests & A Wellbeing Economy

Thank you to Dr Katherine Trebeck for being our guest speaker for the fifth in VFA's 2024 Webinar Series. To support VFA to continue having these events, please consider donating here. To support...

Recording of European Forest Protection and Restoration

Thank you to Luke Chamberlain from Environmental Justice Australia for being our guest speaker for the fourth in VFA's 2024 Webinar Series. To support VFA to continue having these events, please consider...

Recording of Combatting Climate Change Through Forest Protection and Restoration

Thank you to Dr Jen Sanger for being our guest speaker for the third in VFA's 2024 Webinar Series. To support Dr Sanger's work at The Tree Projects, please donate here. To...

Recording of The Burning Question - Fire In Australia

Thank you to Mitch Smith for being our guest speaker for the second in VFA's 2024 Webinar Series. To support VFA to continue hosting these sorts of events, please consider making a...

Recording of Koalas & Victoria's Native Forests

Thank you to Janine Duffy, President of the Koala Clancy Foundation, and Michelle Thomas, from Animalia Wildlife Shelter and Rescue for being our guest speakers. You can support their work by donating...