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March 2021 No 284 Protecting Our Forest Refuges PROTECTING OUR FOREST REFUGES MARCH 2021 NO 284 POWERFUL OWLS FOUND IN MOUNT COLE THE ECONOMIC CASE FOR NEW PARKS NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS REVIEW THE FUTURE OF OUR BEAUTIFUL BAY WHO IS GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK FOR? WE NEED BIODIVERSITY LEADERSHIP Be part of nature PRESIDENT Bruce McGregor DIRECTOR Matt Ruchel CONTENTS Level 3, 60 Leicester St, Carlton, VIC 3053 ABN 34 217 717 593 3 From the President Telephone: (03) 9341 6500 Email: [email protected] Web: www.vnpa.org.au 4-8 After the fires OUR VISION 9-11 Time to give a hoot The Victorian National Parks Association vision is to ensure Victoria is a place with a diverse and healthy natural environment 12-13 Ticking all the boxes that is protected, respected and enjoyed by all. Everyone can help in the conservation of Victoria’s wild 14 Quiz: Central West forests and beautiful places. To find out how you can help, visit www.vnpa.org.au/support or call us on (03) 9341 6500. 15 Must we live with the deer invasion? EDITOR Meg Sobey PUBLISHING POLICY 16-17 What’s that? The national environmental laws don’t work? All advertisements should be compatible with VNPA policies. Publication of an advertisement does not imply endorsement by the VNPA Inc. of the advertised product or service. The VNPA 18-21 The future of our beautiful bay reserves the right to refuse any advertisement at any time. Park Watch may be quoted without permission provided that 22-23 Who is Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park acknowledgement is made. The opinions of contributors are not there for? necessarily those of the VNPA Inc. GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS 24-25 Victoria needs leadership for biodiversity You’re always welcome to contact the editor to discuss ideas for articles. Phone the VNPA or email [email protected] 26-27 The track and the stonefly COPY DEADLINE for June 2021 Park Watch is Friday 16 April. 28 Saving Feathertop DESIGN PRINTING South Star Design Adams Print 29 The Prom at a crossroads FRONT COVER In the aftermath of last summer's bushfires, Glossy Black Cockatoo 30-31 Failing our wildlife are now facing another threat. Turn to pages 4–8. Photo by Rebecca Van Dyk. 32 Trading in genes Park Watch ISSN 1324-4361 Authorised by Matt Ruchel, Executive Director, 33 Caught on Camera in Wombat State Forest Victorian National Parks Association. Level 3, 60 Leicester St, Carlton, VIC 3053. 34-35 Bunyip bouncing back 36-37 Growing our rewilding force The Victorian National Parks Association acknowledges the many First Peoples of the area now known as 38-39 In Parks: Woodlands Historic Park Victoria, honours their continuing connection to, and caring for, Country, and supports Traditional Owner joint-management of parks and public land Park Watch 40-41 Explorers Corner for conservation of natural and cultural heritage. is printed on FSC certified 42 Quiz Answers Our office is located on traditional land of the paper. Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We offer our respect to Elders past, present and future. 43 Wild Families: Growing up in a wildlife family 2 PARK WATCH • MARCH 2021 NO 284 which, while not an appealing title, provides what the authors call a lost history about several environmental crises from the gold rush decades in Victoria up until about 1920. The legacy of the substantial diversion of water from our watercourses and wetlands From the and the “disposal” of immense quantities of crushed rock, clay and sand from surface and underground mining resulted President in massive quantities of sludge flowing down our rivers. Entire river systems and floodplains have been impacted. Dear friends, supporters and members, destructive liquified natural gas The devastating consequences on our the good news is out: investment in (LNG) import terminal in the middle environment were the subject of Royal nature protection provides greater of the internationally-important Commissions and several parliamentary economic benefits to the community Westernport Bay. The company, AGL, inquiries. Much of this history has been than most large infrastructure projects. prepared a long but shallow report on lost from memory, but the enduring the environmental impacts of their environmental costs will be with us for An economic assessment of the proposal. A large amount of additional many decades to come. Reading the benefits of protecting and investing information about the destructive book further highlighted the important in Victoria’s Central West forests, impacts of the proposal on the work that the VNPA is doing to protect as recommended by the Victorian environment, sensitive seagrass nature in the goldfield areas of Central Environmental Assessment Council meadows and migratory birds was West Victoria. (VEAC), shows that benefits range provided to the inquiry about the It is now a year since COVID-19 changed from $2.30 to $4.80 for every dollar proposed terminal. our life, work and community activities. invested. And this is despite excluding Our Finance Committee and staff have many critical benefits, such as water Over recent weeks, further information been working hard to ensure that VNPA supply and carbon storage. from energy experts has emerged, showing that the projected role for gas manages our resources as carefully as possible. The VNPA Council, committees In comparison, many recent state in our economy is far less important and staff have also been updating our infrastructure projects have been than claimed by AGL, as alternatives Strategic Plan to help us keep a focus shown to provide little benefit or even such as solar and wind energy and on the many critical challenges that have negative economic benefits. the use of heat pumps is continually face nature in Victoria and where VNPA Why is the Victorian Government not reducing the need for carbon-intensive should focus our work in the years ahead. investing more in nature protection? and polluting energy sources. See I sincerely thank our supporters, donors, Where are the local Members pages 18–21 for more. Many within Members, philanthropic partners and of Parliament, the Minister and the VNPA community have donated to funders for their continuing support for the hard nuts of Treasury on this support this campaign – thank you for our work and vision. PW issue? Our Executive Director Matt your generosity. • Ruchel discusses the findings of Bruce McGregor, VNPA President the economic assessment of these Over the past few years, VNPA has proposed new parks, commissioned been supporting the emerging Nature by VNPA, on pages 12–13. Stewards program. Nature Stewards is a new Victorian program that The impact of last year’s devastating invites and supports adults to learn, Bushwalking fires on forests in eastern Victoria connect, and act for nature locally. has been a focus of work for It aims to grow Victoria’s number of and activities our campaigners. Together with environmental volunteers and support program returns community conservation groups from the many local groups who give East Gippsland, VNPA commissioned their time for nature. The program a detailed assessment of the impact builds participants’ basic ecological of the bushfires and ongoing logging knowledge, connection with nature We are pleased to announce that our and made recommendations to and with other like-minded people and bushwalking and activities leaders have the Victorian Government. What is groups. Programs are run with local been busily planning and preparing urgently needed is key decisive action municipal councils as the hosts, with adventures and the program is back from the government to realise its at least four different councils hosting up and running. For the Autumn 2021 objectives for the conservation of programs this year. Outdoors Victoria program there is no printed version threatened wildlife in eastern Victoria. has been hosting the program – and I but you can easily find all of the Turn to pages 4–8 for more. thank them warmly for their wonderful upcoming activities available at support. Read more on pages 36–37. www.vnpa.org.au/adventures. VNPA staff and supporters, with If you would like to receive updates, local and statewide community Over the summer, I read the book you can join the dedicated email list at groups, have been working hard Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s Goldfields www.vnpa.org.au/bwag-sign-up. • PW to block the proposal to build a by Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies, PARK WATCH • MARCH 2021 NO 284 3 AFTER THE FIRES WE MUST PROTECT OUR FOREST REFUGES. BY JORDAN CROOK AND MATT RUCHEL. 4 PARK WATCH • MARCH 2021 NO 284 PHOTO: ROB BLAKERS BLAKERS ROB PHOTO: In a year where the word ‘unprecedented’ was overused to DELWP has also identified 67 fauna species of most the point of losing meaning, the 2019-20 Black Summer concern, of which 20 had 50–80 per cent of their entire bushfires along the east coast of Australia had, and continue habitat burnt. to have, an unprecedented impact on our wildlife and ecosystems due to their scale and severity. Our report VNPA, along with community conservation groups from Our recently released joint report After the Fires: East Gippsland, commissioned an analysis of the impact Protecting Our Forest Refuges focuses on ten forest of the bushfires on a range of threatened plant and animal areas including Errinundra, Cottonwood, Cabbage Tree, species in Eastern Victoria – and the impact of ongoing Far East Gippsland, Swifts Creek, Nunniong, Colquhoun, logging on remaining forest spared from the flames. Mt Alfred, Sardine Creek to Bemm, and the North-East What the analysis found was both shocking and deeply Alpine Region. disappointing. At a time when not just Australians but the Many of these unburnt and lightly burnt refuge areas whole world was concerned about the future of our unique contain extremely valuable and rich habitat features and special wildlife, the Victorian Government has allowed essential for the rehabilitation, recruitment and dispersal its state-owned logging company, VicForests, to log unburnt of wildlife into recovering forests.
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