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Stop the burning now! Protecting the ecological and cultural assets of Gunaikurnai, Bidwell & Monero Country, East Gippsland, 'Australia'.

02/11/2026

Thinning is another means for industry to access and extract resources from native forest. Thinning does not create a ‘healthy forest’ - it creates one that is degraded and prone to carry more intense & frequent fires. Thinning is just another form of logging

In 2024, the Victorian and Western Australian governments announced they had ended commercial logging in native forests. But did they?

30/10/2026

27/10/2026

24/10/2026

Years of financial losses, not politics, had already put Victoria’s native forest logging industry in trouble. Between 2007 and 2024, VicForests generated $1.7 billion in log sales but recorded a net loss of $59.9 million over that period, and paid just $4.6 million in dividends to the government that owned it. Victoria’s Parliamentary Budget Office estimated that ending native forest logging in 2020, four years earlier than it actually happened, would have improved the state’s net budget position by $191.9 million by 2030.

One Nation wants to restart native forest logging in Victoria, but decades of losses, shrinking timber supply and a $402 million legal claim show why the industry ended.

13/10/2026

11/10/2026

Short-tailed shearwaters have begun arriving on Phillip Island shores, as environmental authorities urge the public to take extra precautions to keep the seabirds safe as the threat of H5N1 bird flu looms.

Phillip Island Nature Parks (PINP) has asked locals and visitors to help protect the migratory birds, known to the Bunurong as Bayadin, by avoiding walking on dune vegetation and staying on designated tracks and boardwalks.

"Many burrows are hidden beneath the sand and vegetation, so a single misplaced step can collapse a burrow, damage nesting habitat or disturb birds at a critical time in their breeding cycle," a PINP spokesperson said.

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11/10/2026

Here's Dr Phil Zylstra explaining how last season's fires match his research and concern that planned burns are creating far more severe catostrophic crown fires after the first couple of years.

10/10/2026

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