Calls for end to logging in NSW state forests assessed for the Great Koala National Park

Koala habitat: After the "logging and everything's smashed. It's just completely obliterated"
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-24/nsw-logging-state-forest-great-koala-national-park/104821426
#NSWLogging #FCNSW #NSW #MidNorthCoast #LoggingImpacts #biodiversity #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #rapid #deforestation #destruction #ResourceFrontiers #bushfires #risks #StopNativeForestLogging #plantation #RemnantVegetation

Halt all operations in public forests

"Margo Kingston was arrested on Thursday after locking herself on to machinery at a protest against logging in Bulga state forest in mid-north NSW."

“I’m taking this action to protect this beautiful and biodiverse forest which is full of koalas and greater gliders,” she said before her arrest."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/10/margo-kingston-arrested-nsw-anti-logging-protest-ntwnfb
#loggingIndustry #NSWLogging #ProtectProtest #bulga #koalas #gliders #NatureNegative #CitizenScience #bioNet #FossilFuel #machinery #biodiversity #climate #MidNorthCoast #StopNativeForestLogging

Forestry Corporation of NSW has ‘a pattern’ of illegally damaging the environment, scathing judgment finds

"A court has released a scathing judgment against the New South Wales’ state-owned forest agency, finding it had “a pattern” of illegally damaging the environment and had refused to accept the “true extent of the harm that it has caused”."

"The Land and Environment Court fined the Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) $360,000 for offences related to the logging of 53 eucalyptus trees in environmentally significant forest near Eden, in the state’s south, after the black summer bushfires."

"The court accepted an EPA submission that the agency had “a pattern of environmental offending, has not provided any compelling evidence of measures taken by it to prevent its reoffending, and does not accept the true extent of harm that it has caused by its offending...Justice Rachel Pepper agreed that any penalty imposed on the Forestry Corporation “must serve to deter it from future criminality”.

“The government is ultimately responsible for the Forestry Corporation, and have a duty to protect the people and environment of NSW from this rogue state-owned corporation."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/31/forestry-corporation-of-nsw-has-a-pattern-of-illegally-damaging-the-environment-scathing-judgment-finds
#harm #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #NSWlogging #FCNSW #StopLoggingKoalaHabitat #breaches #law #governance #criminality #SaveTuckersNob #BiodiversityCrisis #FCNSW #StopNativeForestLogging

‘Logging by stealth’ - The fight over the future of Victoria’s forests

"The Victorian Greens...have their concerns about the future of the forest and have accused the government of “logging by stealth” under the guise of fire management and storm clean-up."

"13,000 tonnes of debris was removed in the 2023-24 financial year, with 91% going to firewood “because it’s not suitable for anything else”.

“This is not just cleaning up some dangerous trees. This is large-scale bulldozing and razing incredibly important habitat without proper checks and balances, or surveying for threatened species ahead of time...A national park is the “only way” to provide the best future protection for the forests, and allow for the restoration of tree cover, species diversity and making the ecosystem functional again."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/28/victoria-great-forest-national-park-plan-disinformation
#LoggingIndustry #biodiversity #vic #firewood #EUDR #ClimateEmergency #StopNativeForestLogging