Latest updates
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Historic Healesville meeting sends clear message to VicForests - July 19, 2010
On the 24th June, in an historic meeting in Healesville, around 350 people packed out the town's Memorial Hall to hear about the disappearing native forests in the Central Highlands.
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Tony told: saving water starts with protecting forests and rivers - June 15, 2010
Local Mitcham district residents today take their request that the state government ramp up action to protect Melbourne's water supply to the office of their local member of parliament, Tony Robinson.
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Tony Richardson MP targeted over failure to protect forests and water - June 14, 2010
On the morning of Thursday 3rd, the failure of local Mitcham MP Tony Robinson to meet with The Wilderness Society and Environment Victoria came home to roost. Local residents protested outside Minister Robinson's office in Mitcham in a show of support for the protection of Victoria's native forests and rivers.
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VicForests' 2009 Annual Report reveals $5.1 million loss - October 22, 2009
In another blow to the Victorian taxpayer, VicForests' 2009 Annual Report has revealed losses of over $5.1 million. Whilst taxpayers foot the bill, export woodchip and paper companies continue to bask in the supply of cheap pulplogs being logged from old growth forests and water catchments.
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Taking our 350.org forest protection message to the world - October 20, 2009
Last weekend, the Wilderness Society took our forest protection message to the world by joining in with the lead up to 350.org's International Day of Action. A giant spectacular message was stamped in a clearfelled forest of the Central Highlands of Victoria.
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Supreme Court orders logging halt at Brown Mountain - September 14, 2009
In an historic win for the Victorian forest campaign, the Supreme Court has ordered a logging halt in Brown Mountain's old-growth forests in East Gippsland.
