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Forest Fire Management logging Croajingolong National Park
Wingan Rd October 2026 - preparation for 21,541Ha planned burn
Victoria ended commercial native forest logging on 01 January 2024. However, logging occurs by Forest Fire Management Victoria as “bushfire management”, a reality formalised in May 2026 when the government announced Victoria’s State Forest By-Products Framework.
This framework lets Forest Fire Management Victoria remove trees from state forests and sell them to timber mills, firewood suppliers, and others. This appears to extend to National Parks.
Take Action
Close the logging loopholes
Let your elected reps know it’s time for a real end to native forest logging.
Send an email here https://vnpa.org.au/close-the-logging-loopholes/
Contact those responsible. Ask for independent oversight and protection of biodiversity in planned burns
Send an email here https://vnpa.org.au/action-minister-give-native-forests-proper-oversight/
Fire management planning is happening, without independent oversight with the Department self-assessing and evaluating their own operations. FFMV do not monitor the efficacy of their planned burns in preventing bushfires.
In Victoria there is no mandatory Code for protection of biodiversity values in planned burn operations that takes into account obligations under the EPBC Act
There is no publicly available information on how operations are planned and how impact on threatened species is minimised and avoided
FFMV do no on- ground pre or post-burn survey for fauna, flora or habitat
FFMV rely on desktop data from the Victorian Biodiversity Atlas in planning which is outdated and does not show most recent records. This was highlighted by the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office’s report Protecting Victoria’s Biodiversity (2021)
Ask them to regulate impacts using up-to-date science
According to the Victorian Auditor General’s report Reducing Bushfire Risks. Victorian Auditor General (2020). “With the exception of some isolated case studies, DELWP does not know the effect of its burns on native flora and fauna”
Re efficacy of planned burns in preventing bushfires
“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
Below: Forest Fire Management Victoria Roadside logging Croajingolong National Park October 2026
