Clearfelling the Future…. Victoria’s Endangered Forests

  A local film-maker is planning to make a series of short films that expose the destruction of Victoria’s forests by clearfell logging and the urgency for their protection. He hopes to get these short films across as many media outlets as possible. But he’s asking for donations via crowd funding to see it materialise. …

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Vale Ern Mainka Photographer. Obituary by David Tatnall.

Ernest Gordon Mainka 1954 – 2014. The nature conservation and photography communities were saddened to hear of the death of the photographer Ern Mainka. Ern learned his skill as a photographer whilst working for Telecom (before it became Telstra) and his overriding love of the natural world led to him taking a redundancy package in …

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2015 Environmentalist of the Year Jill Redwood

Jill Redwood is a long-time environmental campaigner and the coordinator of Environment East Gippsland, the longest running community group working solely for the protection of Victoria’s last and largest area of ancient forest and surrounding natural environment. For over three decades, Jill has been a campaign stalwart for the protection of East Gippsland forests and …

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This is a winner! Literally!

Our intrepid East Gippy photographer Jude Deland, has won the Animal Behavior section of the 2015 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Competition – today! Congrats Jude! This was taken on the top of Mt Ellery earlier this year amongst the giant granite boulders, Alpine Ash and mist.

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