"The state government should take steps to avoid tragic incidents like this from happening again.
Preserving remaining habitat across the state is a vital step, as is reconnecting isolated areas with habitat corridors."
➡ https://t.co/AyFV5JoDts
TOMORROW: Tune in for Prof. David Lindenmayer's special VFA webinar on Disturbance Flammability: looking at how logging, clearing and burning can increase forest flammability. 🌳🔥
You can register via the link below or in bio:
➡ https://t.co/CmSg7pk0SA
“There’s a forest with ancient trees, waterfalls, and wildlife just 90 minutes from Melbourne but you won’t find it on a map. That’s because the Great Forest National Park in Victoria’s Central Highlands technically doesn’t exist yet”
But it should… https://t.co/7qKKqaHb4p
BEAM and Biolinks Alliance are holding night-time spotlight surveys for Greater Gliders in the Tallarook and Mt Disappointment Forest.
➡ https://t.co/OpnbCHDxIX
Did you miss Karl Just's webinar on Challenging the Myth of Fuel Load Reduction? 🔥
The recording has been uploaded to the VFA's website. Watch it through the link:
➡ https://t.co/v5RBUTL59t
Words from VFA member @FriendsBats: Gunnai Kurnai Country ablaze with planned burns across the Easter long weekend, with towns and forests alike covered in smoke.
#PlannedBurns
After the fires 2019-20 wildlife hospitals were built, and emergency response protocols were put in place. And yet here we are, not failing due to lack of resources or knowledge, but due to a lack of moral compass by those charged with managing wildlife https://t.co/ZG3AoEKOlW
"This is what planned burns look like for families like mine.
My daughter has been rushed to hospital by ambulance more than once during planned burns. We have been in resuscitation stages twice, it’s terrifying."
Words from a VFA member during #PlannedBurns this Easter.
We've just launched a crucial #fundraiser for our campaign to stop #plannedburns destroying #forests. 🔥
✅#Donate:
https://t.co/tLyHMN3zAQ
We urgently need to rethink how we protect our forests and communities from #bushfires. 🌳
A crucial reminder of the research published by the ANU and Curtin University last year, where Lindenmayer and Zylstra found that disturbing natural forests with activities such as logging and prescribed burning can make them more flammable. 🪵
➡ https://t.co/ATrTLHvhKu
One of the VFA's founding comittee members, Rosemary Storey will be speaking at the @bobbrownfoundation March in March for Forests event in Naarm.
It's at Peter Khalil's office - see you there on Sunday. 10.30am.
https://t.co/SQXzafrAVN
"These forests were meant to be safeguarded from logging, and Australian taxpayers invested $121 million in transition packages to ensure their protection," said The Wilderness Society's Hugh Nicklason.
Read:
https://t.co/QMR0ME73hB
Shocking decision by @egsc to approve logging of 51 hectares of native forest near Cape Conran
Wildlife, including Greater Gliders, Long-footed Potoroos and Yellow-bellied Gliders all call this place home.
This logging loop hole must be closed @SonyaKilkenny