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Park Watch

Park Watch is our quarterly, colour magazine and is sent to members free of charge.

It keeps readers up-to-date with the current issues facing Victoria's national parks and includes stories written by experts in their field. Park Watch also provides excellent people profiles, book reviews and special offers for members.

If you'd like to write an article or submit photos for Park Watch, contact Michael Howes, editor, on (03) 9347 5188 or email michaelh@vnpa.org.au

Recent editions cost $7 and can be bought from our office, Level 3, 60 Leicester Street, Carlton 3053, or by phoning (03) 9347 5188. Please have your credit card details ready.

You can also subscribe online. For just $35 a year you will receive four quarterly issues mailed directly to your door.

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Inside our latest edition

The December 2011 issue of Park Watch is jam-packed with nature conservation news.

And to help promote this edition of Park Watch we've made a number of the stories freely available online.

Of course, you still have to be buy your own copy of the magazine to read all of our great stories, or else you can join the VNPA and receive it for free as part of your membership package.

Online feature stories

 Park Watch December 2011

Inside the full edition

  • Backwards march calls for new direction
 
  • Quoll extinction a dead certainty, by Jill Redwood
  • Prom's wildlife is ok, by Sally Nowlan
 
  • Urban habitats and growth area plans, by Andrew Booth and Matt Ruchel
  • Alpine parks need real money, by Phil Ingamells
 
  • Saving Tootgarook Swamp, by Philip Jensen
  • Victoria's mountain ash forests becoming landscape fire trap, by David Salt
 
  • Fire: 5% target goes feral, by Phil Ingamell
  • Marine investigation scope should be broader, by Simon Branigan
 
  • Fire and Biodiversity Symposium, by Phil Ingamells
  • Threats to Victoria's mangroves and saltmarsh, by Paul Boon
 
  • Russell Falvey reflects
  • 'Improving' the federal EPBC Act? by Christine Goonrey
 
  • All-terrain wheelchairs open the way
  • Murray-Darling Basin Plan update, by Nick Roberts
 
  • Best Friends and Kookaburra Awards 2011

Regular features

  • From the president
  • In Parks - 'The Briars'
  • Book reviews
  • VNPA BWAG highlights