Environment
Any Victorian farmer can tell you how introduced animals, drought and erosion impact their land.
Victoria's landscape is changing as a result of human activity, and we have to re-think things we have always taken for granted. Find out how environmental problems – like extinction and water scarcity – began.
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The innocent actions of some homesick colonists have meant extinction for many Australian native animals.
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Erosion is a major issue for the Victorian environment, affecting the land, its people and our cultural heritage.
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Always a contentious issue, deforestation has been a part of Victorian life since European settlement.
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Water management has become an important issue in our ‘sunburnt country', but its imprint on the environment can't be ignored.
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Many towns throughout Victoria and Australia were ‘drowned’ to make way for dams in the early part of the twentieth century.