Victorian Forest Alliance, Melbourne, VIC Videos

An ancient Australian forest invites us into her rapidly changing world where rare life is discovered and inevitable death unfolds. 🌳 Narrated by Joy Murphy Wandin AO, Senior Wurundjeri elder of the Kulin nation. Come and watch The Great Forest, amongst other incredible forest films, with us at the FOREST FILM FESTIVAL. 🦋 Tickets on sale now: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1275558

We're so excited to host you all for two days of forest films at @black.spark_. Have you got your tickets yet? https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1275558 Here's the trailer for CRY OF THE FORESTS. This one's for the very special South-West Jarrah forests of WA.

Did you catch this ABC radio report on the former CEO of VicForests' new 'Healthy Forest Foundation' back on August 8th? Have a listen to the report below: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/am/forest-foundation-accused-of-greenwashing-on-steroids-/104198564

Community members are still occupying the Dandenong Ranges National Park on Wurundjeri Country, having halted Forest Fire Management Victoria's logging for the day with a peaceful picnic. At the same time, locals have locked on to machinery in the Yarra Ranges National Park near Noojee, where an endangered Greater Glider was found crushed by a logging machine last week. Logging in our national parks cannot continue. This is NOT fire management. Actions taken by these community members today have successfully halted work and protected these forests for the day. They've had visits from Wedge-tailed eagles, Yellow-tail black cockatoos, and Gang-Gang Cockatoos. These forests are so special. We cannot allow this destruction to continue. Please contact the ministers in our last post to demand they intervene in these senseless works, and protect our parks properly! #ForestFireManagement #ProtectNativeForests #StopLogging

🌿 DONATIONS CLOSE AT MIDDAY TOMORROW! 🌿 Please keep giving to support the epic work of our citizen science team. 🐨 👉 https://chuffed.org/project/ethicaljobs-vfa-matched-donations Help us to rethink and review forest fire management, survey forest flora and fauna, collaborate with Traditional Owners and Government on forest protection laws - and enable more Victorians to learn about these extraordinary forests. 🌳 #ProtectNativeForests #CitizenScience

A DAY AND A HALF TO GO! 🐝 Please keep those donations coming in so we can pay our wonderful citizen science team to head out into the forests and continue gathering data. 🦜 Here's our new campaign Coordinator, Angelica, to chat about why it's so important. All donations are being doubled: https://chuffed.org/project/ethicaljobs-vfa-matched-donations #CitzenScience #Fundraising #ProtectNativeForests

Happy International Day of Forests! 🌳🌳 Victoria's native forests are facing a new era of challenges, as we move away from native logging. We're fundraising at the moment to get our citizen science program back up and running, and @ethicaljobs.com.au is doubling every donation up to $9k for the next week! 🐨 👉 https://chuffed.org/project/ethicaljobs-vfa-matched-donations We need your help to protect these forests from new and emerging threats: unscientific prescribed burning, inadequate environmental protection laws, and logged areas left as wastelands. 🦉 By donating to this Chuffed campaign you will assist these Victorian communities to rethink and review forest fire management, survey forest flora and fauna, collaborate with Traditional Owners and Government on forest protection laws - and enable more Victorians to learn about these extraordinary forests. 🌳 Please donate today, and have your impact doubled! 👉 https://chuffed.org/project/ethicaljobs-vfa-matched-donations Link in bio. 💚

Come and listen to Dr Phil Zylstra speak tomorrow in Kinglake, on how we can rethink planned burns in our native forests. The amazing @kinglakefriendsoftheforest have put together this talk with fire behaviour scientist Philip Zylstra, for a deep dive into planned burns and their impact on forests. Head down to Kinglake Community Centre at 7pm Tuesday to listen, learn, and connect with the community. #PlannedBurns #ProtectNativeForests

A collection of critically endangered Greater Gliders the VFA Citizen Science team spotted out on Brabralung Country last month. 🐨🌳 The surveys were conducted in and adjacent to the planned burn area, which runs right up to the border of the Mitchell River National Park. Read more: https://www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/citizen_science_planned_burn_survey_Brabralung #ProtectNativeForests Music by Kodiak Kid.

VFA as a newsmaker of 2023
Amongst the headlines created by The Matildas, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Jacinta Price, Margot Robbie, and a selection of other news-making Australians in the The Sydney Morning Herald, you'll find one stand out entry: The campaign that ENDED NATIVE FOREST LOGGING in Victoria. The VFA, represented by our incredibly staunch, hardworking campaign coordinator Chris Schuringa, have certainly made some waves in 2023. It's good to see that reflected in the media. The fight for our forests is far from over, but there is certainly a lot to celebrate. Read the article: https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2023/gw-news-makers-2023/

ART FOR FORESTS 🦜 We are so grateful to our entire community for supporting last week's art auction fundraiser to be such a success. Together, we raised over $30,000 for our work in Victoria's native forests. Special thanks to all of the amazing artists and art collectors who donated works, to the Art Room for so generously hosting us, to the volunteers who pulled the whole auction together, to Food Not Bombs Naarm for catering our closing party, to the Great Tree Projects for their incredible donations, and to everyone who supported our fundraiser by placing bids or showing up to celebrate with us! Thank you all. 💚🌿

ART FOR FORESTS: a spectacular collection of over 100 works, donated by artists and collectors to support the next era of the Victorian Forest Alliance. 🌿 This exhibition and auction have been no small feat, and we are so overjoyed to finally have the works up for display. You can come in and see the works today and tomorrow at @theartroom.au in Footscray. On Saturday, we're having a big celebration to close the auction and see out the final bids. Please do come and join us from 12-3pm. Here's a link to the auction. It's also in our bio. https://airauctioneer.com/victorian-forest-alliance-art-auction-2023

ART FOR FORESTS has kicked off! Head to our online auction to check out the incredible collection, place bids, and get yourself some beautiful art for Victoria's Forests. 💚 🌱 Access it here: https://airauctioneer.com/victorian-forest-alliance-art-auction-2023 #ProtectNativeForests

Email Premier Allan
Have you taken part in our online action to call on Victoria's new Premier, Jacinta Allan to #AbolishVicForests? 🌳 All you have to do is add your details to the open letter already signed by more than sixty environment, legal, and community groups demanding that the logging agency be entirely wound up. Here's the link: 👉www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/email_premier_abolish_vicforests

This gorgeous video of a Koala high up in a tree in the Otway Forest Park was taken by the VFA survey team last week. It shows exactly how we capture citizen science evidence to submit to the regulator: including GPS coordinates in an unbroken video from the species being recorded, which can be quite tricky in the darkness of a forest night! #CitizenScience #ProtectNativeForests