Mid Coast Forestry Devastation
Logging on the NSW Mid North Coast in the proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP) and the local activities organising to stop it.

"Forestry devastation and road works to facilitate new devastation continues at breakneck speed within the footprint of the Great Koala National Park (GKNP)."

"The Forest Embassy coordinated by Forest Ecology Alliance operates Monday to Saturday from a marquee in the main street of Bellingen."

Must read in full>>
https://knittingnannas.org/2023/10/08/mid-coast-forestry-devastation/

Forestry Corporation Plan Portal
https://planportal.fcnsw.net

Forest Ecology Alliance
https://www.facebook.com/forestecologyalliance

#NSW #ForestryCorporation #IndustrialLogging #BellingenLogging #Bellingen #OaksSF #KalangSF #NewryStateForest #SaveTuckersNob #ForestEcologyAlliance #ResistDestruction #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #biodiversity

Logging The Proposed Great Koala National Park
Logging has accelerated since labor was elected

NSW Government Under Fire For Logging Proposed Great Koala National Park. The NSW government is under fire for logging in the rainforest area that was promised to be turned into the Great Koala National Park, as the iconic Aussie animal is being threatened with extinction by 2050.
8 min video>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fhFY52oKGE
#StopLogging #NativeForests #NewryStateForest #SaveTuckersNob #NSWLogging #bushfires #risks #CulturalHeritage #koalas #biodiversity #extinction makers

Albo slammed amid calls to end decades-long ‘damaging’ forest logging

“Over 90 per cent of native forest that is logged in NSW is pulped and sent overseas to be used in woodchips and cardboard.”

“The NSW government has been covering the losses of the native forest logging industry for nearly a decade. It is not a profitable industry; in the past two years alone, $29 million of taxpayer money was spent subsidising native forest logging".

"...The NSW government's audit office found FCNSW (Forestry Corporation of NSW) did not consistently monitor compliance of its contractors or assess risks."

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/back-the-chainsaws-albo-slammed-amid-calls-to-end-decadeslong-damaging-forest-logging/news-story/0add77f23b869ae6edfe91dba712581a
#FCNSW #StateForests #LoggingIndustry #subsidies #NSW #compliance #outsource #risks #WorthMoreStanding #BellingenLogging #NewryStateForest #NativeForests #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity #climate

Australia’s environment must be given legal priority over land-clearing and logging to survive,
Ken Henry , Chair of the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/25/dr-ken-henry-environment-land-clearing-logging
#logging #NativeForest #StopLogging #NSW #BellingenLogging #NewryStateForest #TuckersNobStateForest #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity #climate

We just have to get out of logging

"Conservationists claim harvesting operations are mismanaged, logged too intensively and come at a cost to the taxpayer and the environment."

"Dailan Pugh from the North East Forest Alliance says the biggest problem is the loss of mature trees, which are the homes and future for wildlife...We need to give our wildlife a chance to recover, we need to value our forests for the water they yield and — most importantly — the carbon they take out of the atmosphere."

"The NSW government has committed to creating a Great Koala National Park, which will take in existing state forests that span from the Clarence Valley to south of Coffs Harbour. Concerns over dwindling koala numbers across NSW led the Natural Resources Commission to lead independent work on how koalas responded to harvesting in state forests".

"Victoria and WA will stop native timber logging in 2024"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-26/nsw-timber-industry-awaits-answers-on-native-forests-koala-park/102775084
#CourtInjunctions #Law #logging #StateForests #NewryStateForest #SaveTuckersNob #GKNP #NSW #biodiversity #climate #wildlife #NativeForest #StopLogging #koalas

Calls for nationwide end to native logging
Landline | ABC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MQWQd0nKTg
#NativeForest #logging #StopLogging #NewryStateForest #NSWLogging #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity #climate #extinction #fightback #protests

Logging suspension in Newry State Forest extended in Land and Environment Court
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-25/newry-state-forest-logging-suspension-extended/102774784

Indigenous Elders in tears after NSW agrees to suspend logging sacred forest
https://au.news.yahoo.com/indigenous-elders-in-tears-after-nsw-agrees-to-suspend-logging-sacred-forest-080123955.html
#NSW #NSWLogging #GumbaynggirrLand #NewryStateForest #GKNP

Half of species under threat in NSW are on course to become extinct in next 100 years

Stop business as usual , stop logging and land clearing now!

The review "found n a t i v e f o r e s t l o g g i n g was damaging f o r e s t e c o s y s t e m s and the habitat of native species and was scathing of the state’s offset scheme."

"Laws meant to protect the environment in New South Wales are failing and unlikely to ever succeed unless substantially changed, according to a scathing review that warns half of the species under threat in the state are on course to become extinct within the next 100 years."

"The independent review of the Biodiversity Conservation Act, released on Thursday, makes 58 recommendations to overhaul nature protections in the state and commit the government to preserving the environment for future generations."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/24/nsw-environment-protection-laws-unlikely-to-succeed-without-major-overhaul-damning-review-finds
#Biodiversity #Conservation #NSW #law #koalas #GKNP #BellingenLogging #NativeForest #Logging #NewryStateForest #StopLogging #TuckersNobSF #SaveTuckersNob #climate #extinction makers

When they came and took the forest away... there was a civil uprising.
Pt 1/2

Timber thieves operated in a small town in Mexico. Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán.
"One estimate states that about half of the area's 17,000 hectares of forest have been lost to illegal logging..."about fifty thousand acres of forest were illegally cut between 2008 and 2011," and 200–250 logging trucks a day passed through the town."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher%C3%A1n

Reclaiming the Forests and the Right to Feel Safe
"Crime, raging violence, corrupt politicians, a toothless justice system had the Indigenous community in a stranglehold. In 2011, the women of Cherán led a revolt against illegal logging and corruption. Today, the forests are coming back, and the Indigenous community is returning to its roots."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cheran-mexico

The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrPBdLiqMb0

The Cherán Indigenous Community’s Remarkable Road to Self-rule
"After turning to self-government to fight illegal logging by narco-traffickers, a small town in Mexico is celebrating 4 years of communal decision-making."
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/the-cheran-indigenous-communitys-remarkable-road-to-self-rule-in-mexico

Pt. 2
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/110948624647555754
#Forests #biodiversity #trees #water #Cherán #IndigenousPeoples #uprising #Logging #violence #trucks #cartels #corruption #IndigenousSelfRule #SelfDetermination #DecisionMaking #SocialMedia #protests #democracy #activism #resistance #PoliticalParticipation #fightback #NewryStateForest #NSWLogging #Gumbaynggirr

When they came and took the forest away... there was a civil uprising.
Pt.2/2

Cherán. 5 years of self-government in an indigenous community in Mexico
"Ordinary people decided to confront the criminal organizations that came down from the hill with several vans loaded with wood. That was the beginning. Its experience has inspired indigenous communities throughout Mexico, who seek respect for their rights, territory, institutions and culture."
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/cher-n-5-years-of-self-government-in-indi/

“Reclaiming the Forests and the Right to Feel Safe.” The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/world/americas/in-mexico-reclaiming-the-forests-and-the-right-to-feel-safe.html

Images: Confronting the cartel: Ritual Inhabitual depict a community’s fightback against corruption in Mexico
https://www.1854.photography/2023/07/ritual-inhabitual-ones-to-watch/

Can satellite imagery fight illegal logging in Mexico?
Between 2006 and 2012, researchers estimate that about 70 percent of Cheran’s forests were ravaged by organised criminals as locals staged protests to denounce police inaction.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/26/can-satellite-imagery-fight-illegal-logging-in-mexico

Pt. 1
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/110948628395660370

#Forests #biodiversity #trees #water #Cherán #IndigenousPeoples #uprising #Logging #violence #trucks #cartels #corruption #IndigenousSelfRule #SelfDetermination #DecisionMaking #SocialMedia #protests #democracy #activism #resistance #PoliticalParticipation #fightback #NewryStateForest #SaveTuckersNob #NSWLogging #Gumbaynggirr