Today, more than 65,000 hectares of central west forests become national parks

Victoria, Australia officially designated three new national parks and 13,000 hectares of regional parks and reserves across the central west, protecting habitat for platypuses, greater gliders, powerful owls, brush-tailed phascogales, and hundreds of rare plants and fungi. The law passed Parliament in November 2025; the parks became official on October 5, 2026.