Rivers and Red Gum Environment Alliance

Welcome to the website of the Rivers & Red Gum Environment Alliance


NSW: Following the stated intention of city based minority green groups to blockade Riverina red gum forests and campaign for national parks, the Alliance has joined forces with local shires and communities to protect the forests under the 'wise-use' principles of the internationally recognised Ramsar Convention on wetlands. See the Campaigns page.

ABC Landline has reported on the real reason for the indecent haste of the NSW government in declaring new red gum parks in the Riverina.
See link Green Preferences below


VICTORIA: Former Premier John Brumby announced four new national parks for the red gum forests of northern Victoria on Tuesday December 30th 2008. See the Campaigns page for an analysis of this decision under the heading: More Red Gum Forests Downgraded to National Parks.


Since this announcement, that consigns yet more red gum forests to a failed land management model where the worst examples of stressed red gum forest are identified by government funded study as being located in national parks; Victoria has suffered the catastrophic Black Saturday fires of February 7th.

This article below, published at Online Opinion by Australian Environment Foundation executive director Max Rheese, covers many of the concerns the community articulates about current public land management.

DSE & PARKS VICTORIA FAIL TO REVEAL YET ANOTHER GOVERNMENT STUDY SUPPORTING CATTLE GRAZING AT BARMAH See Publications page

DEPARTMENT TRIES TO BULLY SMALL COMMUNITY INTO SUBMISSION See Campaigns page

TWISTED LOGIC PASSES FOR LAND MANAGEMENT AT BARMAH ISLAND - See Campaigns page.

A FUEL REDUCTION BURN IN THE BARMAH STATE PARK ON OCT 16TH HAS DESTROYED A LARGE NUMBER OF HABITAT TREES. See more information on the Media Releases page and the Campaigns page. A detailed report on the Fire is available on the Publications page.

See the article on the Campaigns page VEAC RECOMMENDATIONS FAIL THE TEST OF SCRUTINY


The Rivers and Red Gum Environment Alliance formed as a result of the Victorian Environment Assessment Councils River Red Gum Forests Investigation draft proposals paper.

After months of preparation the Alliance Conservation & Community Plan for the investigation area was launched in the Victorian Parliament on Thursday July 31st 2008.

The Conservation & Community Plan is available for download on the Publications page.

Here is an interesting quote from The Australian newspaper August 9th 2008 "National parks are no longer seen as necessarily the primary means of protecting biodiversity" from the article Keeping Hands Off Our Lands.

Sort of what the Alliance has been saying all along.

National parks have a place, but should no longer be considered as the primary land tenure for biodiversity protection.

The community's view of land management is changing and land classifications need fine tuning to reflect that.