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March 14, 2025

Looking for a beautiful tourist destination when the regions open? Forget VisitVictoria's website and head straight to Victoria's logging agency, VicForests' site. You'll be sure to find maps with the best (and last) ancient forests in the state. There's a catch though... they're all...

February 25, 2025

The abolition of Victoria’s Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) marks a historic victory for the forest movement. Seeing it publicly acknowledged is the culmination of decades of tireless efforts to protect these vital ecosystems.

December 09, 2024

We’ll spare you the suspense. They aren't. Because the vested interests and misinformed ideology of the old forestry bureaucracy have not gone away, our forests are still not safe from threats. We have seen this recently with the killing of an endangered Greater Glider...

August 19, 2024

It's been a while since you've heard from GECO, and even if we haven't had to get our climbing gear out of storage, we have continued our work advocating for forests.  Despite the official end of native forests logging on January 1st, 2024, the...

January 18, 2024

A tribute podcast and video by GECO forest crew to remember our dead forest defenders, read by Fiona York, Kim Shimlaki and Anita Davis, as part of the podcast series "GECO: 30 years fighting for forests"

January 11, 2024

In December 2023 we celebrated our 30th anniversary along with the end of native forest logging in Victoria! We reflected on the epic battles of the campaign, the people that passed along the way, and the people who stuck through it all thick and...

December 19, 2023

To celebrate our 30th anniversary, this new 6-part podcast series looks back on the wins, losses and lessons of a thirty year campaign to protect the forests of East Gippsland in Victoria. Produced by Fiona York and 3CR and available wherever you get your...

August 03, 2023

Holy shit. We get to turn 30 and celebrate the end of logging in Victoria at the same time... These moments are precious, and so we are throwing the party of the decade.      It will be pure punk revelry... RSVP here.  Want...

May 25, 2023

Huge news. The Premier announced today that native forest logging will cease in Victoria by Jan 1st 2024!  This is a win for the beautiful movement which has showed up for forests for decades! Every single person that came to blockades, lobbied your MP,...

May 12, 2023

On Saturday May 20th, the day Victoria's anti-protest laws come into effect, a mass survey action has been planned to protect forests, and the right to protest. Sign up to get involved here and someone will be in touch shortly with more information.   ...

March 21, 2023

GECO's mass meeting event on Tuesday March 7th, 2023 was designed to build confidence within the environment movement to continue to organise for forests, despite increasing repression. It also proposed a common platform with First Nations struggles and the union movement in how we...

February 01, 2023

The new GECO research and submission group will work within GECO to help us develop strategy, write kick ass government submissions, and bring more stories to the spotlight with journalists this year.  Want to be a part of this initiative?  Go here to sign...

December 07, 2022

Remember the Defend Errinundra campaign in 2021, which saw over 15 arrests and stopped logging for 5 months? Well, nearly 9000 ha (or over 4000 MCG’s worth!) of this critical climate refuge has now been put into Special Protection Zones, preventing logging. This is...

November 14, 2022

As a result of pressure from environment groups, including GECO’s campaign to save Kuark, in early November 2019 Daniel Andrews made the completely false post election declaration that 100% of old growth forest would be protected. It accounted to 90,000 ha at the time. ...

October 18, 2022

An interesting predicament for anyone who knows the history of logging in East Gippsland. How could the council have unanimously endorsed a forestry position paper (p133) that both the Nationals and environment groups are both on board with? As it turns out, it's what...