VicForests is ignoring the precautionary principle in its approach to logging glider habitat, and its conservation methods are ineffectual, Victoria's Supreme Court has ruled.
Opponents of a subdivision application have had a tribunal win, after arguing proposed biodiversity offsets were on an "undevelopable" part of a site that was at risk of sea-level rise.
Victoria's Auditor-General has delivered a scathing assessment of efforts to manage clearing on private land in the state, identifying fundamental data gaps and extensive compliance failures.
Victoria should accredit environmental professionals and strengthen rules on biodiversity offsetting, according to a state parliamentary report released today.
Victoria's Auditor-General today delivered a scathing assessment of the state government's administration of arrangements that exempt housing estate developers from the EPBC Act.
In a decision that has broad ramifications, the Federal Court has found logging by VicForests did not satisfy the precautionary principle, and has significantly affected threatened species.
The proponent of Australia's first offshore wind farm, which could meet 18% of Victoria's power needs, has applied to the state and federal governments for approval.