January 18 and 19, Nowa Nowa, East Gippsland From the organisers: Mingling Waters Music Festival is a small, grass-roots, high quality, well-organised, community-focused, family-friendly music event, supporting local artists and business, promoting Nowa Nowa as a special place to visit. We plan to bring new and interesting artists in from the wider community. We aim…
This report comes from Goongerah Environment Centre. The actions are part of the Fearless Summer campaign. Image: GECO. NB: this photo is from the Dec 12 action Environmentalists have halted logging in state forest on the iconic Errinundra Plateau in East Gippsland. One person has climbed a tree more than 40 metres, and sits on…
The following media release comes from Still Threatened, Still Wild, and marks the beginning of a summer of actions to protect remaining old growth forests. Today’s protest action continues to stop logging operations in a stand of forest at Stony Creek, East Gippsland, Victoria. Two conservationists remain at the top of tripods, blocking the road…
The Baillieu Government wants to give prospectors and fossickers more freedom to dig up our most treasured national parks. The government has directed the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council (VEAC) to recommend that prospectors and fossickers should be permitted to expand their activities into the Alpine, Yarra Ranges, Baw Baw, Croajingolong, Errinundra, Lake Eildon, Lind and…
To publicise the impending decision on the future of Bastion Point in East Gippsland , expected before Christmas, we are holding the following event: Monday 10 December 12:00 midday (finished 12.30) Parliament House steps, Melbourne (cnr. Spring and Bourke St) We will be meeting on the steps of Parliament to send the Coalition and the…
an appreciation of the Bogong bioregion 