The idea of the Great Koala National Park (GKNP) and ongoing clearfell logging of native forests

"Government GKNP proposal falls short according to Ashley Love...He says a recent environmental report, prepared on behalf of and with input from local environmentalists, indicates the current Government proposal is “grossly inadequate...It fails to adequately protect the largest coastal koala population in NSW, which occupies Bongil Bongil National Park, Pine Creek, Orara East and Tuckers Nob State Forests."

“The majority of plantation production is for pulpwood into a market that is now heavily oversupplied in South-east Asia or for burning as “biofuel” for electricity production.”
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https://coffscoast.newsofthearea.com.au/government-gknp-proposal-falls-short-according-to-ashley-love
#Biodiversity #wildlife #NSWLogging #governance #failure #thegreatkoalaNationalPark #ClearFelling #plantations #BellingenShire #TuckersNob #NSWForestry #extractivism

Koala habitat on the Mid-North Coast of NSW logged

"Up to 19,000 hectares of forest in the proposed Great Koala National Park is at risk of destruction by Forestry Corporation NSW before April next year."

“It is untenable that so much has been destroyed, and will be destroyed in the coming year, before these areas have been assessed. ..The new analysis reveals Forestry Corporation is continuing its desperate attempt to take as much timber as possible before the park is protected."

“Leaving 95% of the proposed park vulnerable to logging is simply not good enough to ensure the survival of koalas in the wild."
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https://www.nature.org.au/loggers_attempting_to_make_park_unviable_as_koala_sanctuary

"The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales has developed this interactive MAP to show past and planned logging in the proposed park that has been identified as home to one in five of the state’s koalas.">>
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=d3b1708ba5d041fa87ab1353413fb0bf
#TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #MidNorthCoast #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #FCNSW #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity #climate #destruction #Australia

A 2020 NSW parliamentary inquiry found koalas would be extinct in the state by 2050 without urgent action.

"Governments continue to permit the clearing of koala habitat, including for native forest logging operations on the mid-north coast and in areas that have been promised for conservation in a proposed great koala national park."

“We’re in one of the most biodiverse, rich areas on this continent, but historical clearing has seriously degraded the area."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/03/koala-thief-leaves-claude-eastern-forest-nursery-lismore-nsw
#Koalas #LoggingImpacts #LandClearing #NSWForestry #MidNorthCoast #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #governance #biodiversity #extinction makers

Australian biodiversity conservation and 'fighting the government.'

"A rare legal win for an ecologist over a violent confrontation with NSW loggers exposed years of intimidation from corporate forestry representatives and law enforcement ."

"In environmental science circles, state surveillance and persecution of an ecologist whose findings refute or debunk state land management practices surprises no one. Last year, the International Science Council, a body representing more than 250 organisations, summarised that “the findings of environmental scientists … have long triggered censorship, intimidation, harassment and even violence when these challenge economic interests, political agendas, or ideologies”. It reported that scientists “have been physically attacked, wrongfully detained, and killed for their research and advocacy … threats and attacks are widespread in virtually all fields examining human impact on the environment”.

"A 2021 joint university study of Australian environmental scientists found more than half employed in industry or government “are routinely constrained in communicating scientific evidence on threatened species, mining, logging and other threats to the environment”. In some cases, “scientists self-censor information for fear of damaging their careers, losing funding or being misrepresented in the media. In others, senior managers or ministers’ officers prevented researchers from speaking truthfully on scientific matters...In all logged states, time spent fighting the government has overtaken the fieldwork time of ecologists and forest researchers."
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https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/june/katherine-wilson/combative-nature#mtr
#NSWForestry #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #breaches #violence #GumbainggirCountry #activism #ecology #conservation #science #researchers #Koalas #ThreatenedSpecies #extractivism #mining #logging #defamation #surveillance #CivilDisobedience #CoffsHarbour #Gondwana #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #ExtinctionCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #democracy #governance #Australia

Loggers accused of 'botching' greater glider searches

"Australia’s greater gliders are on the verge of extinction and new regulations were supposed to protect them from loggers. But a new report alleges they’ve been breached 188 times since they were enforced in February."

“Yet again Forestry Corporation [of] NSW has shown itself to be a rogue operator by repeatedly flouting rules meant to protect threatened and endangered species like the iconic Greater Glider."

"Greater gliders were listed as endangered in 2023 and habitat loss has been flagged as a major contributor of their destruction."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/logging-company-responds-after-botching-simple-endangered-species-rule-188-times-073052041.html

The Central Greater Glider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMNtmWeOmiU
#NSWLogging #NSWForestry #FCNSW #gliders #biodiversity #widllife #Australia #destruction

Climate and wildlife destroying logging burns are not specific to NSW logging sites.

"Right now, the Tasmanian Government is carrying out post-logging burns. These infernos damage the climate and environment, kill wildlife and harm human health. Forest Watch is exposing the destruction that Forestry Tasmania is hiding from you. Monitoring native forest logging and burning in Lutruwita / Tasmania."
https://forestwatch.org.au/
#EndNativeForestLogging #BanLoggingBurns #NSWForestry #NSWLogging #fires #smoke #biodiversity #ClimateBreakdown #SaveTuckersNob #pollution #LoggingBurns #wildlife

Still logging Tuckers Nob, also known as the proposed Great Koala National Park

Dr. Tim Cadman is documenting how rainforest trees are cleared and original forest remnant are damaged by the state-owned Forestry Corporation of NSW. Week 11 of industrial logging within Tuckers Nob compartments 26-27 turning remnant vegetation into timber and electricity.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2djTDFsYjY

Surviving arboreal animals flee across busy roads and birds have gone silent. Industrial machinery leave huge puddles behind that supply the whole of Bellingen with Japanese encephalitis virus, Murray Valley encephalitis and Ross River virus. Gain for some, harm for others.

Mosquito borne diseases move in behind the loggers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/30/environment.climatechange
Deforestation and vector-borne disease: Forest conversion favors important mosquito vectors of human pathogens
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8290921/

#SaveTuckersNob #BreachWatch #TuckersNob26 #LoggingIndustry #FCNSW #LoggingImpacts #ForestConversion #NSWForestry #BellingenLogging #RemnantVegetation #rainforest #MosquitoBorneDiseases #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #electricity #koalas #VectorBorneDiseases #BellingenShire

The #CarbonCredit Grift Destroying #Koala Habitat #deforestation #nsw #NSWLogging #NSWFORESTRY #NSWNews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDzW-f8y8F0

Dealing with climate-induced trauma

"Forest bathing therapy offers path forward in times of stress and climate trauma, nature guides say forest therapy can be used at corporate events, for rehabilitation, at nursing homes, and as an eco-tourism attraction."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-03/could-forest-therapy-pose-a-solution-to-rising-climate-trauma/103644804
#NativeForests #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateCrisis #BellingenShire

Where will all the microbats go when the NSW forests are logged and clear-felled?

Decline of rare UK bat linked to tree felling for British empire’s fleets
"Rife deforestation 500 years ago aligns with western barbastelle slump, finds study of bat DNA."

"The examples of flora and fauna disappearing because of human excesses over the past 50 years are manifold, but research has found that the decline of a characterful bat began in the UK when its trees were felled for shipbuilding 500 years ago."

"“These bats usually roost in mature oak and beech trees, and move around every few nights – so they benefit from areas with substantial woodland cover. Our findings reveal that the northern and southern British populations have declined over several centuries, beginning about 500 years ago. This coincides with a period of widespread tree-felling to supply wood for colonial shipbuilding. It is likely that the decline we found was triggered by this loss of woodland – which has continued since that period.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/14/decline-of-rare-uk-bat-linked-to-tree-felling-for-british-empires-fleets

The barbastelle are sparsely distributed in the landscape and absent from many areas of the country.
https://www.vwt.org.uk/species/barbastelle/
#deforestation #bats #MicroBats #insects #logging #biodiversity #extinction #BritishEmpire #colonialism #extractivism #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #LoggingImpacts #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark