Calling all Volunteers – We need you.
Our Alpine forests are under immediate threat. We have big plans for future work, but we can’t do it without you.
Friends of the Earth Forest Collective are holding a ‘meet and greet’ event at the Freeburgh Community Hall on Saturday the 11th of August approx 1-3 pm.
The event will be hosted by Cam Walker, Campaigns Cordinator for FoE.
If you’d like to join us please get in touch and we will send you the agenda and location details.
Contact Sanja sanja.vanhuet@foe.org.au
More details below.
In recent years Friends of the Earth has been deeply involved in a range of issues in northeastern Victoria. We wrote the report An Icon at Risk, Current and Emerging threats to the Victorian High Country in 2021 (available here), have hosted forums such as this one on fire and climate change in 2022, organised guided walks and camps, carried out citizen surveys of areas that had been scheduled for logging, lobbied for protection of forests, engaged with traditional owner groups, and much more. We set up FoE North East VIC Alps as a forum for this work to develop.
This is your chance to get involved? :
- Help us with organising a vital fund raising auction at Bright Brewery on September 8
- Help us with planning to host a ‘snow gum summit’ at Dinner Plain in mid February next year. We already have a great range of speakers lined up for this event
- Help us to engage deeply in the Great Outdoors Task force process that is being run by the state government to determine the future of public land forests in the north east, and
- Help us establish a long term monitoring program to track the recovery of snow gum forests that have been impacted by repeat fires
We are hosting a volunteers meeting at Freeburgh Hall to explain what we’re doing and how you can get involved.
FoE campaigners will be present to walk you through our plans and what you can do to help save our Alps.