Forest Fire Management Victoria has cut down areas of forest inside Dandenong Ranges National Park, calling the operation a forestry transition project. The area was recovering from damaged by windstorms in 2021. And now that recovery has been smashed. Heavy machinery has disturbed recovering habitats, with documented impacts on wildlife, soil stability and habitat structure. Removing the trees sets back the regeneration of a national park rather than aiding it.

In Yarra Ranges National Park, FFMV is using fuel management loopholes to cut down old hollow-bearing trees. This destroys critical habitat for wildlife threatened with extinction, like Greater Gliders and Leadbeater's Possums, which depend on these ancient hollows for survival.

Forest Fire Management Victoria burns over 100,000 hectares of forest in Victoria each year, with growing scientific evidence that broadscale planned burning at this scale may increase fire risk rather than reduce it. The burns destroy wildlife habitat, produce heavy smoke impacts on regional and metropolitan communities, and place additional pressure on habitats already under stress from logging, climate impacts and habitat fragmentation.

The Allan Government has confirmed it will not proceed with the Great Forest National Park, the proposed park that would have connected and protected fragmented forests across Victoria's Central Highlands. Years of community, scientific and conservation campaigning are behind the proposal, which would have provided landscape-scale protection for some of Victoria's most important forest habitats. Without the park, those forests remain unprotected at landscape scale.

Private land logging is the major loophole in Victoria's logging ban. Native forest logging ended on public land in 2024, but forests on private property can still be cleared, often with limited oversight. A Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal case led by Wildlife of the Central Highlands currently challenges logging near Warburton under a 1977 permit, arguing councils failed to consider impacts to wildlife threatened with extinction, including Leadbeater's Possums and Greater Gliders.

Native forest logging was supposed to end in January 2024. The Victorian Government promised to end commercial native forest logging to protect forests and the wildlife that depend on them. Now, the government is reinstating this damaging practice by stealth. The Allan government has released a State Forest By-Products Framework that effectively creates a loophole for a new form of incentivised logging and land clearing, with fewer protections than the industry it replaced, and no public consultation.

Forest Fire Management Victoria are smashing thousands of hectares of habitat in Wombat Forest, due to become a national park in late 2025. Just months after declaring the Wombat-Lerderderg National Park, hectares of recovering forest was flattened through a logging loophole disguised as 'storm clean-up'.

Victoria’s Environment and Agriculture Ministers have ignored expert advice and refused to list 'salvage logging' of burnt native forests as a threatening process under nature laws. The independent scientific committee was clear — this practice harms already fragile habitats. By overruling the science, the government has dealt another blow to our forests, prioritising industry interests over wildlife, climate resilience, and the future of these irreplaceable landscapes.

On 24 May 2024 Forest Fire Managment Victoria felled an ancient Mountain Ash tree in the Yarra Ranges National Park, even though the tree was at low risk of falling. This tree was 2.8 meters in diamter and should have been protected under state policies.