Victorian Environmental Assessment Council

  • Anger at broken promise

    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…

  • Forest frustration

    Forest frustration

    More than 40 state, national and international groups are calling on the state government to accept recommendations for new national…

  • Exploration shock – Residents protest gold drilling in the Wombat

    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…

  • A win for conservation – National Park recommended for the Wombat Forest

    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…

  • Forest fears furore

    Forest fears furore

    With less than a fortnight before the state election, a fight has erupted over a plan to reclassify the Wombat…