Toni Stevens 18/12/25 Toni Stevens 18/12/25

Putting Resilient Forests planning in practice

The Resilient Forests project was established in 2023 to trial new approaches to climate adaptation planning, with the foothill forests of the Otways selected as a pilot landscape.

In 2025, we set out to develop a detailed Adaptation Pathway that could guide long-term planning for the Otways foothill forests - incorporating Traditional Owner obligations, new ecological research, expert opinion, and insights from stakeholder engagement into a structured set of options for future management.

Julia 26/6/24 Julia 26/6/24

‘Climate Resilient Forests’ – Adaptation Pathways Pilot’ now underway

Guest User 26/6/24 Guest User 26/6/24

Caring for koala woodlands

In recent decades manna gum woodlands suffered dramatic declines due to inappropriate fire regimes and high Koala densities.

Julia 1/5/24 Julia 1/5/24

Resilient forests: Managing forests in a changing climate

Guest User 23/8/23 Guest User 23/8/23

Restoring logged forests doesn’t mean locking them up as ‘wilderness’ – it means actively managing them

On January 1 this year, the commercial logging of native forests ended in Victoria and Western Australia. It was one of the most significant changes in the history of forest management in Australia.

Julia 2/12/22 Julia 2/12/22

Restoring grassy woodlands on Cape Otway

Toni Stevens 13/7/17 Toni Stevens 13/7/17

Thousands more trees for Cape Otway koalas

The future of koalas on Cape Otway is looking brighter thanks to a multi-agency approach which is improving their habitat.

Over the weekend of 17 and 18 June, over 70 volunteers pitched in and planted close to 5,000 new koala habitat trees on the community managed Otway Park property as a part of the Big Otway Tree Plant 2017.