OREN wished to thank the following community goups, organisations and government organisations who worked in conjuction with OREN (1995 - 2002) and made a significant contribution to ending clearfell logging of Otway native forest and the creation of the Great Otways National Park.
Note: Some of these groups no longer exists and/or were only able to actively support elements of the OREN campaign for a specific period of time. This list names groups that worked directly with OREN and does not include individuals or independent work from other groups.
Geelong Field Naturalists
Wainwrights Tree
South West Environment Action Group (Warrnambool)
Wye River Action Group
East Otways Residents Group (Deans Marsh)
Save the Otways (Apollo Bay)
Wombat Forest Society (Daylesford)
West Victorian Forest Protection Network (1999 – 2000)
Western Region Environment Centre (1999-2000)
Goongerah Environment Centre (Stump truck 1999 )
Portland Field Naturalists
Threatened Species Network
Future Rescue
Blok 2000
Rob Stary and associates (Lawyers Footscray)
Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative
Friends of the Earth (Victoria)
Environment Victoria (till 2001)
Wilderness Society (1995-1996)
Cross Campus Environment Network (1997-1998)
Apollo Bay Land Care group
Apollo Bay Chamber of Commerce
ALP Otway Ranges Interest Group
Victorian Local Governance Association
City of Greater Geelong
Surf Coast Shire
Warrnambool City Council
Moyne Shire
Individual councillors on the Colac Otway Shire (2002)
South West Water
Victorian State Government (from the 6th November 2002)
Website Credits
Site Design and layout - Nikki Parker and Simon Birrell
Content - Simon Birrell, Nikki Parker and the OREN crew
HTML, backend php programming and general make the site work stuff - John Pierce
Webhosting - Web Necessites Hosting
Photocredits: John Piesse, J. Struss, Simon Birrell and heaps of others
Other Interesting Websites
Friends of Pooh Corner (& the Metroplex campaign)
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