Gippsland Forest Guardians

Peoples Futures Are Entwined With
The Future of Our Forests

We protect and enhance Gippsland’s forests for future generations of animals, plants and people.
(...and fungi and slime mould too! )

Campaigns

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Rainforest and Slender Tree-fern protection
Slender Tree Ferns are critically endangered in Victoria…which means that they are highly likely to become extinct in the immediate future. 


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Eucalyptus Plantations    - Not Pines
We work to promote the planting of native plantation timber species in high conservation areas.
For better habitat and safer carbon storage.


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Protecting Our Threatened  Species
The Gang-gang and Pilotbird are endangered and under threat by HVP's current timber production practices in the Strzelecki ranges.


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 Rainforest Refuge
(To be announced soon...)








 Rainforest and Slenders

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Slender Tree-fern update

Thank you to everyone who came out to visit the Slender Tree-ferns and Cool Temperate Rainforest for the Slender Sundays in April. We would also like to thank all of you who joined our successful letter writing campaign.

Council were flooded with letters, prompting a statement on their website and a visit by councillors, staff and the CEO. Your letters of support have been effective in showing all levels of government that the community expects protection of our critically endangered species.


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Eucalyptus Not
Pines

HVP are replacing Mountain ash and Blue gum plantations on our Crown land with pines.

 Pine plantations have role to play in providing timber resources but are not appropriate in all locations.

We don't want more areas like this pine plantation (right) in important conservation areas as they negatively effect not only our Crown land but surrounding habitat that is important for our threatened species. 

For more information on the impacts of pines on conservation values see the link below.

Gang-gangs
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 Pilotbirds

The 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires devastated Gang-gang Cockatoo habitat. Subsequently, because of their diminished numbers, the Gang-gang Cockatoo was listed as an endangered species.

Mountain ash forests in the area have the hollows that Gang-gangs need for breeding. Gang-gangs have successfully bred in the area over the past years making protecting this area a high priority.

Pilotbirds were listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act in 2022 as Vulnerable due to nearly 50% of their habitat burned in the Black Summer bushfires and a 30-50% reduction in population in the last 11 years. 

The DCCEEW conservation advice states that:

"Habitat critical to the survival of Pilotbirds occurs in a wide range of land tenure arrangements,
including on private land, nature reserves, state forests and National Parks. It is essential that the highest level of protection is provided to
these areas..."

We are working to protect this critical habitat in the southern most part of their range.

How can I help?

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Send a letter of Support
(coming soon...)

 

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Contact us

Get in contact with us, we would love to have a chat. If you have any questions or suggestions, we would be happy to hear from you.


stuart@gippslandforestguardians.org.au
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