Healesville - 3777

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

Retail fruit prices have barely changed in two decades, exports have dropped to about two per cent of the nation's crop and producers are fleeing the industry, new data from a NSW Farmers Association survey reveals.

Angel Cropley screamed the first time he was helped onto a horse. Now he's preparing to navigate the Great National Trail.

A man is airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries after his car crashed into a school at Healesville, north-east of Melbourne, leaving him in a critical condition.

Homicide detectives have revisited the investigation into the death of Healesville woman Marea Yann in 2003. A $1 million reward for information is being offered.

A council in Melbourne's outer east has shut its doors to residents after what it describes as increasing abuse, intimidation and anti-social behaviour.

Melbourne's Yarra River is often derided for being brown, but ultramarathon runner and advocate Karin Traeger is going to extreme lengths to show how precious the waterway is.

Wurundjeri elder Aunty Margaret Gardiner is remembered as a fierce advocate and expert in Victoria's Aboriginal history, culture and communities, after her passing this month aged 63. 

A couple of hours' drive from Melbourne you'll find mountain ash forests, where behemoths reach up to 100 metres into the sky. But their future looks shaky — and there's more to lose than a few old trees.

Contact with animals like giraffes, elephants and kangaroos will be limited at zoos in Victoria as concern about a potential foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Australia continue to rise.

The number of locations where this threatened butterfly species is found just doubled. Here's what we can do to help its survival.

Baby Guthega skinks running around on rocks and leaves in their specially created 'skink chalet'.

Climate change, pollution and overdevelopment threaten Melbourne’s most iconic river – now the waters have a passionate new advocate.

The little bird that could has been released after months recovering from two fractured wings

The lost Eurasian Hobby was released in Sale last month after months of recovery.

The ABC can reveal VicForests hired a private investigator to conduct surveillance on conservationists and, more recently, conducted what some have called "digital surveillance" on people the agency argues are trying to "discredit" it.

The Moora Moora community founded in the 70s is protecting 188 hectares of native forest to help secure crucial habitat for the endangered Leadbeater's possum.  

WILAM BIIK - or ‘Home Country’ - at TarraWarra Museum of Art, puts Wurundjeri people in full control of the curatorial process, breaking down centuries of museum protocol.

As the state flags a move towards a "vaccine economy", Grand Hotel Healesville publican Lisa McKay says she just wants everyone to be able to have a beer together.

A devastating combination of bushfires, flooding and a deadly fungal disease has threatened the future of this tiny frog. But researchers are uniting to save the species.

Trees have blocked roads and power lines have been felled in a wild storm that hit parts of Victoria overnight.

Melbourne woman Allison Irvin has become the first woman to complete the 5,300 km National Trail solo on a bike.

Cultural burning is enjoying a resurgence as an environmental management tool. Joseph Dunstan reports.

After 160 years, the Wurundjeri people have restored traditional burning techniques to the land at Coranderrk Station, near Healesville.

When Wurundjeri people were last freely conducting cultural burns in the 1850s, historical records show Gold Rush settlers interpreted it as a threat. This week, the ancient land management tool has been further restored.