The proposed Great Forest National Park is an area of mostly unprotected forest located in Victoria. The GFNP proposal will add 355,000 hectares of protected forests to the 170,000 hectares of protected areas in the Central Highlands. The proposed park is made up of current State Forest, Special Protection Zones and existing Parks and Reserves as seen in figure 12 and 14. The area is home to large ash forests, rainforest and vine thickets, eucalyptus tall open and open forests and woodlands.
This area is under threat from logging, bushfires (Figure 3) and the destruction of habitat of precious animal and plant species, 40 of which nest in the hollows and crevices of large trees. Some species found in the area include the Leadbeater’s possum
This area is under threat from logging, bushfires (Figure 3) and the destruction of habitat of precious animal and plant species, 40 of which nest in the hollows and crevices of large trees. Some species found in the area include the Leadbeater’s possum