2025
EMERGENCY - East Gippsland is about to be burnt AGAIN !
Forest Fire Management Victoria is set to burn 200,000 hectares, including 60,000 hectares of Snowy River National Park. FFMV inherited unemployed loggers from the defunct Vic Forests, so give them 'jobs' burning our public estate. Bushfire recovering forests, aged forest and threatened species, nothing is spared. Same story in Mitchell River National Park and Lake Tyers Forest Park - vital refuges that escaped the 2019/2020 bushfires.
FFMV claim burning forests will 'make us safe'. But the science says, although burning may reduce 'fuel' loads for 6 months, it triggers a pulse of highly flammable regrowth... for decades.
(Lindenmayer, Zylstra, Taylor, 19/1/2025 The Age)
Please go here and here if you are able to help
This is a national disaster happening out of sight of most Australians
Please consider supporting these unfunded groups striving to protect Australian native species from extinction. You will also find ample information on the ongoing carnage in regional Vic:
Environment East Gippsland Gippsland Environment Group Victorian National Parks Assoc.
Environmental Justice Australia Victorian Forest Alliance Goongerah Enviro Centre GECO