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Melb. waterVRN Campaign Background, the successful Otways experience
Over the past decade, conservationists working in the Otways focused on Otway Cool Temperate Rainforests and the issue of protecting these rainforests from logging practices.
Conservationists successfully lobbied for the rare Otways rainforests to be protected in a National Park.
The Otway rainforest campaign success prompted conservationists to set up a Victorian state-wide rainforest watchdog called the Victorian Rainforest Network (VRN).
Otway Rainforest Campaign Results
On Dec 11th 2005 at Triplet Falls in the Otways the Premier Steve Bracks and Environment Minister John Thwaites announced the creation of the New Great Otway National Park which will cover 103,000 hectares of forest. See announcement on OREN website.
The Great Otway National Park includes all ten Otway rainforest sites of significance. (see OREN web site)
Find out more about Otways Rainforest; see OREN website.