Environment Victoria

25/06/2026

Great to see this new legal challenge! The real agenda of 'floodplain engineering' is to reduce environmental flows, and it condemns swathes of precious redgum forest to a slow death.

25/06/2026

“At least for me and a lot of my friends, we felt that even what’s considered center left from Labor on climate policy is not as ambitious as we’d like to see for our future. The fact that climate breakdown is happening, it’s kind of, I don’t really have the words for it. It’s pretty crazy.”

At just 16, Ivy Sheng is already a climate activist, podcast host, artist and Australian UN Youth delegate.

Ivy reflects on growing up between China and Australia, finding her voice in the climate movement, and why she believes every person has a role to play in creating change.

“Even if you’re working on one tiny corner of one single issue, you’re pulling on the thread that’s going to hopefully unravel the whole paradigm eventually.”
Watch Ivy’s story and hear why young people are refusing to give up on the future.

Ivy’s story is part of our new report, the Movement of Many II which shines a light on everyday Victorians bringing strength, wisdom, joy and creativity to our biggest environmental challenges.

Read the full story here: https://environmentvictoria.org.au/2026/06/17/ivy-sheng-movement-of-many/

Check out Ivy’s Taught Not Told podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

23/06/2026

Huge shout out to everyone involved in the recent Ask Us Anything about Gas & Electrification event in Geelong 💚hosted by Geelong Renewables Not Gas.

Watch the full recording via the link in our bio and learn all about electrification from those in the know.

From the health impacts of gas to electrification and energy justice, it was such a thoughtful and energising conversation.

Special thanks to all the speakers, Jay Gordon, Energy Finance Analyst at IEEFA, Rory Anderson, Policy Advisor for Energy & Cost of Living at Victorian Council of Social Service, Seung Baek, Chair of the Victorian branch of Doctors for the Environment, and our very own Dr Kat Lucas-Healey, our Senior Climate & Energy Advisor. As well as event partners ACF Geelong and Geelong libraries, and everyone who came along and shared ideas, questions and stories.

One attendee even shared they’d be transitioning their home off gas after the event - proof that these conversations matter.

22/06/2026

The Vic government wants to artificially engineer the Nyah-Vinifera floodplain & condemn large chunks of iconic Red Gum forest to a slow death 😡

It's dressed up as "environmental protection" ... but the real agenda is to justify reducing environmental flows.

Friends of Nyah Vinifera Park and allies have launched a last-ditch effort to stop bulldozers and they’re calling on the community for more support.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

📰 Stay up to date and follow Friends of Nyah Vinifera Park on Facebook.

✊🏼✊🏿 If you can, head down to Nyah-Vinifera Park to find out what’s happening and show your support.

📣 Call your elected representatives. Demand they stop the wetland engineering works at Nyah-Vinifera Park.

☎️ Call Murray Watt, Federal Environment Minister: (02) 6277 7920

☎️ Call Jacinta Allen, Victorian Premier: (03) 9651 5000

Full story in the Age here >> https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/absolute-disrespect-bulldozers-at-the-gate-as-fight-over-river-steps-up-20260619-p608a8.html

22/06/2026

Four Corners investigation TONIGHT at 8.30pm AEST >> Has the $1.5 billion spent on Victoria’s transition away from native forest logging delivered what was promised? New evidence is raising serious questions 🔍🌳🚜

Four Corners follows the logs, and the money, to uncover how efforts to end logging have shifted the timber trade across state borders.

19/06/2026

Packed room at the 2026 River Peoples' Forum for in Swan Hill / Wadi Wadi & Wemba Wemba Country 💧

This morning we heard from Dr Emma Carmody, South Australia Commissioner for the River Murray, Professor Quentin Grafton from Australian National University and our very own Jono La Nauze on navigating the next era of water policy.

It's a pivotal time for the future of the Murray-Darling Basin so it's great to see so many people coming together for our rivers ✊🏽✊🏿

05/06/2026

At the last River Peoples’ Forum in 2024, we heard directly from Traditional Owners about how they are caring for river Country – and what’s needed to deliver long-overdue water justice across the Murray–Darling.

This year, Brendan Kennedy and Grant Rigney from Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN) return to take the conversation further – sharing what’s next in the fight for water justice, and how we can all play a role ✊🏾✊🏼

Reserve your place at the 2026 River Peoples Forum now - tickets are free but limited: https://envict.org/riverforum

💧 River Peoples' Forum 2026
📅 Friday 19 June
⏰ 9:00AM – 6:00PM
📍 The Lower Murray Inn, Swan Hill / Wadi Wadi & Wamba Wamba Country

29/05/2026

URGENT CALL FOR HELP from Friends of Nyah Vinifera Park ‼️

Jacquie Kelly and others have been camping at the gate of Nyah-Vinifera Park for a week now in a last-ditch effort to stop bulldozers and machines destroying wildlife, wetlands and Red Gums in this iconic Murray floodplain forest.

Earlier this month, Friends of Nyah-Vinifera Park and Environmental Justice Australia lost their case in the Federal Court to stop the Victorian Government’s dubious wetland engineering scheme there.

Now, they’re calling on the community for more support.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

📰 Stay up to date with what’s happening on the ground. Follow Friends of Nyah Vinifera Park on Facebook.

✊🏼✊🏿 If you can, head down to Nyah-Vinifera Park to find out what’s happening and show your support.

📣 Call your elected representatives. Demand they stop the wetland engineering works at Nyah-Vinifera Park.

☎️ Call Murray Watt, Federal Environment Minister: (02) 6277 7920

☎️ Call Jacinta Allen, Victorian Premier: (03) 9651 5000

26/05/2026

As the cost of polluting energy skyrockets, investment in local clean energy & battery storage is bringing bills down 😎

Can't blockade the wind, can't run out of sunshine!

Full story here https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/26/power-bills-drop-fall-australia-energy-default-market-offer