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Biologist Deon Gilbert says this month's Victorian release of 70 juveniles from a spotted tree frog breeding pool is incredibly heartwarming.

Crews are working on the Bogong High Plains Road landslide seven days a week ahead of the upcoming snow season.

One of Australia's longest-running ecological experiments, recently heritage listed, began with the "legendary" Maisie Carr (nee Fawcett), who had to learn to ride a horse to carry out her work, and became a friend and foe of local cattlemen in Victoria's high country.

It's hard news for families divided and businesses facing yet another cancelled tourist season, as a serious landslide blocks access from Mount Beauty to ski village Falls Creek.

Victoria's alpine region has experienced a mass exodus of people as a slow-moving landslide cuts access to the Falls Creek ski village.

Falls Creek resident Peter Murray said debris is slowly coming down the mountain.

A predicted record downpour and slow-moving landslide will cut access to Falls Creek alpine village, authorities warn.

A "special moment" millions of years in the making could be a critical point in a rescue breeding program for the Guthega skink, which is barely hanging on in its alpine homelands. 

Parks Victoria will remove all the Bogong High Plains brumbies, and increase the removal rate of feral horses from the eastern Alps, under a plan to protect vulnerable species.

"More regular and more intense fires" are putting snow gums in Victoria's High Country under stress and could alter the alpine landscape, a report has found.

On the highest peaks and plains of the Australian Alps, snow gums are being decimated by a tiny enemy. Can anything save them from being wiped out?

Alpine Shire Mayor Peter Roper says while the addition of Victorian towns to the NSW border bubble is welcome, there are still others in his shire that have been left off the map.

Victorian High Country cattleman Philip Maguire loses his court battle to stop feral horses from being shot under a Parks Victoria management plan.

The Government says they are "large invasive herbivores", the Maguires say they're a cultural icon. While the battle of the brumbies will be heard in court, this cattleman says a judge won't stop him saving Victoria's wild horses.

Parks Victoria says it won't start shooting brumbies until at least June as Victoria riders saddle up to save feral horses from being culled.

The culling of feral horses in Victoria's Alpine National Park will go ahead after the Federal Court ruled that alpine brumbies should not be protected.

Summer's bushfires have cast doubt on the sustainability of the critically endangered mountain pygmy-possum population in Victoria's High Country, with scientists unable to access research grounds after.

Emergency services warn a large region of north-eastern Victoria faces an unprecedented bushfire risk over the coming two days, as the window of opportunity for people to leave threatens to close.

Scientists are hoping to stop mountain pygmy possums from hibernating, acclimatise them to warmer environments, then relocate new populations to lowland forests.

Billions of bogong moths that migrate to alpine reaches each year have all but disappeared, but there are hopes that citizen scientists will fill knowledge gaps and save an endangered possum in the process.

The latest round of aerial deer culls in Victoria's Alpine region sparks concern that it could be creating fresh food to support the region's wild dogs.

Animal advocates are up in arms over a strategy to remove wild horses from the state's High Country.

The body of 88-year-old hiker Leslie Southwell is found outside a tent in the Mount Bogong area in Victoria's Alps after he was separated from his friends three days ago.

Fears are held for the safety of an 88-year-old hiker who has gone missing in Victoria's Alps eight days into a trek after he was separated from his friends.

Visitors to Victoria's remote alpine country are reminded to prepare for potential hazardous conditions during winter.