Tag: Victorian Environmental Assessment Council
Anger at broken promise
The creation of a new Wombat-Lerderderg National Park has been delayed until next year, angering local environmental activists who describe the failure...
Forest frustration
More than 40 state, national and international groups are calling on the state government to accept recommendations for new national parks in the state’s...
Exploration shock – Residents protest gold drilling in the Wombat
Blackwood residents protested in the Wombat State Forest last week after they discovered mining company Currawong Resources had begun exploratory drilling for gold.
Residents said...
A win for conservation – National Park recommended for the Wombat Forest
A Wombat-Lerderderg National Park and Cobaw Conservation Park will be created if the state government accepts recommendations released by the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council...
Forest fears furore
With less than a fortnight before the state election, a fight has erupted over a plan to reclassify the Wombat State Forest as a...
