Protect Victoria's Red Gum Wetlands

River Red Gum. Photo: David Tatnall

Victoria's Red Gum Wetlands are amongst the most iconic, beautiful and threatened landscapes in Australia.

Home to more than 300 threatened species, including the Superb Parrot and Regent Parrot, the Brush-tailed Phascogale, and the Inland Carpet Python, these forests are being degraded every day by logging, grazing and inadequate flooding.

In 2005, the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council (VEAC) began a three year study to investigate how best to manage public lands for environmental and economic sustainability along the Murray River.

The study area included the two largest river red gum forests in the world; Barmah-Millewa and Gunbower-Pericoota, as well as the crucial corridor of red gum vegetation communities along the Murray.

VEAC's recently released final report has made some excellent recommendations, some of which include:

• over 100,00 ha of new National Parks designed to protect and interconnect the Murray's remaining River Red Gum wetlands.
  
• Improved environmental water flows
• a historic opportunity for indigenous co-management in Barmah and Nyah-Vinifera forests.

Premier Brumby now has 6 months to fulfill Labor's election promise and implement these recommendations in full. It is critical that we hold the government to their promise.

  Take action now - send an online message to Premier Brumby to save our Red Gums and Protect the Murray, before it's too late!