Gippsland Environment Group Inc
Lobbying against environmental threats on the unceded lands of the GunaiKurnai, Yaitmathang, Ngarigo and Bidwell Peoples
Problems with planned burns
Rethinking Planned Burns
Sat, 15 Aug, 2:30pm | Mechanics Hall Lakes Entrance
Fire Science with Dr Phillip Zylstra. Plus a screening of the film, Forest Country & a presentation of impacts of burns in local forests by Gippsland Environment Group survey team. Q&A panel with Gunnai Elder Marjorie Thorpe, Dr Zylstra, GEG surveyors and GECO. Free
Glossy black cockatoos pushed towards extinction in Victoria if burns go ahead
18 May 2025 - The Guardian
“Glossy black cockatoos could be pushed towards extinction in Victoria if planned burns of 13,000 hectares of forest go ahead, ecologists and conservationists warn. The Victorian government is being urged to abandon the burns."
Trident Arm, Bung Yarnda
Old-Growth Forest Scheduled for Burning
March 2025 | GunaiKurnai Country
Here is long-unburnt old-growth forest. Most of this 402ha burn site has no recorded fire history and no history of logging and is home to a remarkable diversity of coastal forest. Much of this area is only accessible by water and has never been thoroughly surveyed
Planned burning could be making forests more flammable
January 2024
“We’ve understood for a long time now that logging can make bushfires worse, but it’s only in the last few years that evidence is showing that prescribed burning could be doing the same thing,” lead researcher Professor David Lindenmayer, ANU.
Over 100 very large old trees destroyed in Lake Tyers State Park
April 2025 | GunaiKurnai Country
In 20 Ha section of the burn surveyed, more than 100 very large old hollow bearing trees were destroyed by FFMV operations. The burn has caused significant and widespread damage to environmental values within Lake Tyers State Park
Near Nowa Nowa: Protected habitat cut down to make way for a planned burn and the trees taken for firewood
December 2025 | GunaiKurnai Country
Over 120 trees felled around active Yellow Bellied Glider feed trees into creek buffer/logging exclusion zones beside old logging coupes. Solid felled trees were taken to log piles and removed for firewood.
Near Nowa Nowa: Unlawful damage to known Grevillea celata and Glossy Black-Cockatoo habitat
December 2025 | GunaiKurnai Country
Serious and avoidable damage to habitat for two nationally listed threatened species — Grevillea celata and the Glossy Black-Cockatoo during pre-burn mechanical works by FFMV
Post-burn survey
Mitchell River National Park
May 2025 | GunaiKurnai Country
Environment groups requested this burn be removed due to impact on ecological values such as Southern Greater Gliders, Yellow Bellied Gliders, Gang Gang Cockatoos, Giant Burrowing Frogs, Dry rainforests of East Gippsland and a formally recognised Protected Area. The burn was ignited by FFMV on 19 April 2025
Feathers to the flames
June 2024 | GunaiKurnai Country
"We won't stand by as this critically endangered population is driven to extinction." We encourage concerned Victorians to write to the Victorian Minister for Environment, Steve Dimopoulos, and demand that FFMV exclude all Glossy Black Cockatoo habitat from planned burns
New research from Arthur Rylah Institute
April 2024
No feeding sign was recorded at any of the Black she-oak survey sites that were burnt by FFMV post-bushfires. The authors state that burning of unburnt stands of Black She-oak in the decade following the bushfires is highly undesirable. They make it clear that it is essential that she-oak stands are mapped and accorded extra protection.
Warburton Environment VS DEECA
Trial begins 01 September 2025
Warburton Environment is taking the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action to the Federal Court to challenge the unlawful removal of hollow-bearing trees in Victoria’s State and National Parks under the guise of fire management. W.E . believe no valid exemption under the EPBC Act allows this destruction.
