Gippsland Environment Group Inc
Lobbying against environmental threats on the unceded lands of the GunaiKurnai, Yaitmathang, Ngarigo and Bidwell Peoples
Problems with planned burns
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."
Don't burn Colquhuon Regional Park!
March 2026
Near Lakes Entrance: The Mississippi Creek, Glossy-black cockatoos and a 1,373ha planned burn​. Wildlife Refuge Threatened by Fire - that will burn nearly the entire Colquhoun Regional Park
Fire in the Bully
February 2026 | The Monthly
“Does a macho culture of bush use influence policymakers to override science and safety concerns, and ignore Indigenous counsel, in bushfire management?​,” Katherine Wilson writes for The Monthly
Near Nowa Nowa: Protected habitat cut down to make way for a planned burn and the trees taken for firewood
December 2025
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
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
Providence Ponds Flora Fauna Reserve incinerated again
June 2025
In May 2025, Forest Fire Management VIC ignited 46ha of the Reserve with disastrous results, cutting down and destroying old trees, swamps and Sedge Wetlands and incinerating threatened New Holland Mouse sites
Post-burn survey
Mitchell River National Park
May 2025
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
Over 100 very large old trees destroyed in Lake Tyers State Park
April 2025
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
Fire news, media and events
See media relating to problems with planned burns in Gippsland on GunaiKurnai Country and across the state
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.
Feathers to the flames
June 2024
"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
Take Action
May 2025
Ask the minister to put independent oversight in place and regulate impacts using up-to-date science. Fire management planning is happening without independent oversight, not for biodiversity or for the efficacy of planned burns in stopping fires.
Planned Burns and Glossy black cockatoos
April 2024
Forest Fire Management Victoria plan to burn 11,000 hectares of Glossy Black Cockatoo critical habitat in East Gippsland over the next 3 years, 2024 – 2026.
FFMV burning Special Protection Zone
April 2024 updated May 2025
With recent records of Greater gliders, Yellow-bellied gliders, Powerful owls, Sooty owls, Long-nosed bandicoots, Koalas and Yellow-bellied glider feed trees. Mt Alfred State Forest
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​.
Sign the petition: Stop broad scale burning of forests
Evidence shows that this approach is not only damaging to the climate, human health, and the environment but is also ineffective in reducing bushfire risk.
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FFMV incinerating Gliders in Mt Alfred State Forest
Burnt April 2024
DEECA, FFMV’s boss have all the official survey reports – Greater Gliders properly surveyed and documented in late 2023. Still they burnt it.
Fact Sheets
An accumulating body of scientific research shows that prescribed burning, as currently practised, does not effectively protect us or our forests from summer wildfire and is causing irreversible loss of biodiversity.
Planned burns destroying old growth forest
August 2019
Gippsland Environment Group sample assessment of destroyed old growth at Casey Ck, Colquhuon Forest in the FFMV April 2019 planned burn site
Submissions: Issues with Planned burns
See submissions from Gippsland Environment Group with concerns about planned burns