Newsflash! Brumby Government Makes Historic Decision to Protect Red Gum

On the 30th December 2008, Victorian Premier John Brumby made history by committing to protect 95,000ha of Murray River Red Gum forests, and create the state’s first jointly managed National Parks. Click here to read more

Along the Murray and its tributaries are the world’s largest stands of river red gum. This merging of forests and wetlands is one of the most unique and highly threatened landscapes in Australia. The Victorian goverment has just taken an historic step to save them.

This website is dedicated to the protection of Victoria’s magnificent red gum forests. It is hosted by a group of independent community-based environment groups – Friends of the Earth, Friends of Nyah-Vinifera Forest, Goulburn Valley Environment Group, the Victorian National Parks Association and the Wilderness Society. We have created this site to give you the information and the tools to make a real difference for the river Murray and its red gum forests.

Our vision

We envisage an historic, national solution to the future of the River Red Gum floodplain forests of south-eastern Australia, that:

  • Creates a continuous network of new National Parks along the Murray and associated rivers
  • Protects internationally significant Ramsar wetlands and the two largest Red Gum forests left in the world
  • Includes worlds best practice Indigenous protected areas, comprising a number of large Aboriginal-owned National Parks
  • Promotes land justice, cultural survival and a firm economic base for Traditional Owners
  • Supports a continental scale biological corridor from Kosciuszko to Coorong via a private land conservation network
  • Delivers a thriving and diverse regional economy with an emphasis on renewable energy and conservation management projects
  • Involves an integrated, cross-border tourism strategy, marketing the region as the ‘Kakadu of the South’

What's on this site?





You can explore our precious red gum forests by clicking here.





Click here if you want to know more about the threats these precious wetlands face.



Click here to find out about the solution - a world-class network of national parks managed in partnership with Indigenous Traditional Owners.





Click here to take action right now to protect our red gum wetlands.