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#endnativeforestlogging

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BellingenNSW

After the closure of VicForests, The Healthy Forests Foundation is reborn - the new face of logging in Victoria

"VicForests' June 30 closure followed allegations of widespread and illegal logging, referrals to corruption watchdogs and revelations the organisation had spied on conservationists."

The Healthy Forests Foundation
""The aim is just to work out ways to keep cutting the forest. It's a front — it's just a way of keeping the [logging] industry going. It's kind of like the 'healthy smoking foundation'..Professor Lindenmayer, who spent decades studying the impacts of logging on forests, described the Healthy Forests Foundation as "greenwashing on steroids".

"The Healthy Forests Foundation says its purpose is to promote First Nations forest management, which proponents admit will also supply timber. One Indigenous leader said the Healthy Forests Foundation looked like "black cladding" — a way for largely non-Indigenous industries to gain access to resources by taking advantage of Indigenous peoples' access...It is not self-determination. It is tokenism."
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abc.net.au/news/2024-08-08/vic
#LoggingIndustry #VicForests #ImpressionManagement #GeenWashing #BlackCladding #extractivism #EndNativeForestLogging #FirstNationsPeoples #NativeForests #conservation #biodiversity #ClimateCrisis

ABC News · After the closure of VicForests, senior staff have joined a new forest venture By Michael Slezak
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BellingenNSW

NSW government says state’s biodiversity ‘in crisis’ as it pledges first steps to reverse decline
"Government will also overhaul state laws after Guardian Australia uncovered serious problems with biodiversity offsets scheme."

"Henry’s review found the state’s environment laws would not succeed without substantial changes and warned half of the species under threat in NSW were on course to become extinct within the next 100 years"

End native forest logging and land clearing now!
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theguardian.com/australia-news
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1earthmedia.com/minns-responds
#Biodiversity #conservation #restoration #ecosystems #destruction #NSWlogging #offsets #LandClearing #NaturePositive #transparency #NSW #law #legislation #extinction #BiodiversityCrisis #EndNativeForestLogging

The Guardian · NSW government says state’s biodiversity ‘in crisis’ as it pledges first steps to reverse declineBy Lisa Cox
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BellingenNSW

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."
forestwatch.org.au/
#EndNativeForestLogging #BanLoggingBurns #NSWForestry #NSWLogging #fires #smoke #biodiversity #ClimateBreakdown #SaveTuckersNob #pollution #LoggingBurns #wildlife

Forest WatchForest WatchMonitoring native forest logging and burning in Lutruwita / Tasmania. Forest Watch is exposing the destruction that Forestry Tasmania is hiding from you.
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BellingenNSW

Gleniffer residents close Tuckers Nob to Forestry

"Gleniffer residents gathered at dawn today and reposted ‘Forest Closed’ notices around Tuckers Nob – with a difference.This time the signs read “Forest Closed: To Loggers”.
This is in response to the closure of compartments 26 and 27 by Forestry Corporation late last year, with FCNSW stating its intent to log the area. Community have become frustrated after their expert report around Unique and Special Values there has been ignored."

Like in the Amazon or the Congo, the fossil fuel powered machinery of destruction has started wiping out the homes of endemic and rare plants and animals.

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bellingenshirenews.com/2024/02
#EndNativeForestLogging
#SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity #koalas #ClimateEmergency #FCNSW #NSWForestry #Bellingen #values #BellingenLogging #destruction #TuckersNob26 #extinction makers

Bellingen Shire News · Gleniffer residents close Tuckers Nob to ForestryBy Karlee BrownGleniffer residents gathered at dawn today and reposted ‘Forest Closed’ notices around Tuckers Nob – with a difference.This time the signs read “Forest Closed: To Loggers”.This is in…
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BellingenNSW

How to fast-track extinction
NSW changes are designed to make logging easier
Logging glider and koala habitat is nonsensical
#EndNativeForestLogging

"New logging rules in NSW put the greater glider closer to extinction."

"The NSW Environment Protection Authority this month announced changes to rules in logging operations."

"...Ecologists were shocked by a recent announcement by New South Wales environment authorities that we believe loosens protections for southern greater gliders in logging areas."

"But sadly, extensive glider habitat has been burnt, logged or both. Climate change poses a further risk."

"Since the southern greater glider was listed as vulnerable in 2016, its habitat continued to be destroyed. This is poor management for many reasons:

gliders often die on site when their habitat is disturbed

young forests recovering after disturbances tend to be hotter and drier, which is bad for gliders because they are heat-sensitive

removing hollow-bearing trees not only destroys a key part of glider habitat immediately, but it can take decades (if not centuries) for forest to become suitable again

logging makes forests more flammable and gliders are particularly sensitive to fire

logging can change the composition of tree species in a forest, reducing the availability of quality food for gliders."

"Logging those refuges is nonsensical given the large body of scientific work demonstrating its negative effects. And tinkering around the edge of logging rules will have limited benefits."
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theconversation.com/new-loggin

Australia leads the world in native mammal extinctions – roughly 10% have become extinct since British invasion.
Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: Decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.141730111

#NSWForestry #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #koalas #gliders #EndangeredSpecies #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #biodiversity #StopLogging #NativeForests #extinction makers

The ConversationNew logging rules in NSW put the greater glider closer to extinction. When will we start protecting these amazing animals?Australia has already lost so many wonderful mammal species. Do we want the southern greater glider to suffer the same fate?
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BellingenNSW

#EndNativeForestLogging / #SaveTuckersNob

Fossil fuel machinery has started 'treading lightly' in Tuckers Nob public forest today in Bellingen.

Logging trucks were speeding along Roses community road today at 8.30, delivering giant fossil fuel machinery to start the industrial destruction of Tuckers Nob (compartments 26 and 27) public forest.

A vigil is being held by Friends of Tucker Nob on Gleniffer Rd.

Friends of Tucker Nob
facebook.com/groups/2501891204
Bellingen/ Gleniffer Community group protecting and surveying native forests.

youtube.com/watch?v=SLa7XENA3Y
Tim Cadman showing "the incredible beauty and diversity of Tuckers Nob rainforests and remnant forest. #NSWForestry is trying really hard to hide the wonders of this special Koala habitat."

'The Koala lives here'
Stop logging native forests
Stop forest destruction in a climate and biodiversity crisis

#Bellingen#NSWLogging#FCNSW
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BellingenNSW

The only way to protect critically endangered species…. is to end native forest logging now

“The only way to protect the swift parrot, and hundreds of other threatened Australian forest species, is to end native forest logging across Australia and Tasmania.” American entertainment industry worker
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theguardian.com/australia-news
#extinction #Australia #PR #birds #wildlife #habitat #conservation #ThreatenedSpecies #biodiversity #climate #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #NativeForests #destruction #EndNativeForestLogging

The Guardian · Leonardo DiCaprio calls on Australia to save critically endangered swift parrotBy Lisa Cox
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

we keep diverse intact, protect forest from the ravages of , and keep climate-changing out of the atmosphere.

Together, old-growth and mature forests hold enormous amounts of carbon, safely stored in , and . Left to grow, they'll store even more.

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environmentamerica.org/resourc

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Environment AmericaThreatened ForestsNumerous mature and old-growth logging projects are removing some of our best natural climate solutions from the landscape. We need a new national rule to ensure these climate forests remain standing to safeguard our future. 
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Linda Gill

Forestry Corporation NSW continue to vandalise our public forests, & were sentenced for logging hollow-bearing trees in Mogo State Forest.

FCNSW fined $20,000 and must pay more than $80,000 in legal costs.
More than 300 native species rely on hollow-bearing trees for habitat.

We want an urgent cessation of logging in NSW now.

#EndNativeForestLogging
#nswpol #Forests

abc.net.au/news/2023-12-22/for

ABC News · Forestry Corporation NSW sentenced for felling hollow-bearing trees in Mogo State ForestBy James Tugwell
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BellingenNSW

Logging and koalas do not mix
Spoiler: End native forest logging altogether, seek World Heritage protection for these forests.

"Koalas cannot read maps, and do not understand human zoning. If their habitat in plantations is cleared, they die – just as we’ve seen in Victoria, where deaths of koalas in blue gum plantations have made national news."

"For a koala-protecting National Park to actually protect koalas, it must be based on the identification and reservation of high value habitat – such as hardwood plantations. If we leave all plantations out, some of the best habitat in the park will continue to be logged. Without plantations, the park will be filled with holes, severing critical corridors and hampering the movement of koalas."

What should we do?
"We have to restore the areas lost to logging and the Black Summer bushfires and flag more forested areas for inclusion – especially unburnt habitat. And the government has to end logging within the proposed park area. If we want a viable alternative, the government should begin new plantations outside the park area and buy out existing logging contracts inside the park. Logging and koalas do not mix."

"We should give up on the idea of protecting koala “hubs”. Instead, we should prioritise the protection of koala populations unaffected by fire and in untouched forest areas wherever they are, whether inside or outside of these hubs.
Every bit of habitat on public land should be ruled in, as this is what counts, not zoning. Local communities – not just the forest industry and environment groups – need to be included in negotiations. The government should also consider community efforts to seek World Heritage protection for these forests."
Tim Cadman, Danielle Clode
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theconversation.com/a-home-amo
#conservation #logging #Koalas #LoggingIndustry #NSWForestry #extinction #SaveTuckersNob ##restoration WorldHeritage #Biodiversity #ClimateEmergency #EndNativeForestLogging

The ConversationA home among the gum trees: will the Great Koala National Park actually save koalas?For the proposed Great Koala National Park to actually help koalas, logging should stop and plantations should be added to the park.
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BellingenNSW

Unsustainable forest management and secrecy

"The Montreal Process Working Group for the conservation and sustainable management of temperate and boreal forests met in Sydney this week.
Australia is one of the 12 countries which have endorsed the Working Group’s framework for assessing progress towards sustainable forest management."

"BBF, Knitting Nannas, Drum Rebellion and other concerned activists gathered to remind those inside that Australia needs to end native forest logging quickly. They also called out NSW, where the forestry industry is failing on all seven Montreal Process criteria for sustainable logging."
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knittingnannas.org/2023/10/08/

The Montréal Process Working Group was formed in 1994 as a bold, intergovernmental response to the pressing need for sustainable forest management.
montreal-process.org/

Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends · Forestry secrets, reports, news and eventsSydney Knitting Nannas protest outside a secret forestry conference, engage with people at the forefront of forestry activism, and plot our next actions on coal, climate and forestry.
#NSWForestry#secrecy#LoggingIndustry
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BellingenNSW

The fight to end native logging
Anthony Albanese is taking a big electoral risk by continuing Howard-era native forest logging agreements. By Bob Brown.

"We live in a plutocracy. Big business prevails. Yet the destruction of native forests is stirring the public and will be a vote-changing issue at the next election, along with the cascading tragedy of global warming."

"Instead of protected koalas, the voters got protected logging corporations and a resumption of logging in key koala habitats with in-the-forest defenders facing arrest."

"Here’s how forest offsets work..."
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thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/e
#NSWLogging #NativeForests #logging #bushfires #risks #BellingenLogging #monoculture #offsets #ForestryCorporation #governance #EndNativeForestLogging #protests #GlasgowDeclaration #koalas #gliders #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #biodiversity #ClimateEmergency

The Saturday Paper · The fight to end native loggingBy Bob Brown
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BellingenNSW

Ending habitat destruction, run away land clearing and industrial native forest logging in NSW?

"The former New South Wales premier Bob Carr has backed an alliance of conservation groups calling for tougher environmental protections and an overhaul of the state’s land-clearing laws".

"A report from the new alliance – called the Stand Up for Nature alliance – calls for forests and native vegetation to be protected by “ending habitat destruction, run away land clearing and industrial native forest logging”.

"A review of the state’s Biodiversity Conservation Act, led by Dr Ken Henry, found the laws were failing to protect the environment and that clearing of vegetation and intensifying land use had led to the destruction of habitat across the state."

theguardian.com/environment/20

“The experts suggest a major reset of the Biodiversity Conservation Act and related laws is needed and we agree...The independent expert panel, led by Dr Ken Henry, has found the current objectives of the Act obsolete, and unaligned with international ambition to halt extinctions and put nature on a path to recovery."

edo.org.au/2023/08/24/report-f

Independent Review of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016, NSW Parliament, 2023
"Native forest logging is damaging forest ecosystems and the habitat of native species. All citizens should have confidence in the integrity of the programs administered under the Act."
parliament.nsw.gov.au/tp/files

The Guardian · Bob Carr warns environment movement ‘in danger of fading’ amid huge challengesBy Lisa Cox
#NSWLogging#ForestryCorporation#failure
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

Please speak out for the Indigenous people of Sipora in their struggle to save their livelihoods and survival on their small island by signing our petition.

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rainforest-rescue.org/petition

www.rainforest-rescue.orgIndonesia: NO to the wholesale deforestation of the Mentawai islands!Indonesia has granted a permit to a company for large-scale logging on Sipora in the Mentawai islands. Over the next 30 years, it will be allowed to clear 20,706 hectares of forests and Indigenous lands. This will make locals more vulnerable to floods, water shortages and impacts of climate change. Help us get the permit canceled!
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

It doesn't have to be this way. Other companies already use perfectly suitable alternatives, such as recycled paper, bamboo or even wheat straw.

Costco is just as capable of making this change and protecting the boreal forest in the process. But the company needs to hear from you.

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environmentoregon.webaction.or

environmentoregon.webaction.orgTell Costco: Don't trade the boreal forest for toilet paperCanada's boreal forest is irreplaceable. Home to caribou, wolves, lynx, elk, billions of migratory birds and more -- countless creatures rely on the forest staying intact to survive. Plus, the boreal's trees remove enough carbon from the air each year to offset 24 million cars.
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BellingenNSW

End native forest logging in Australia

Labor fails on the environment at national conference

"The Australia Institute’s poll on banning native forest logging was ignored in spite of the fact that key findings demonstrated seven in 10 Australians (69 per cent) support extending native forest logging bans to NSW and Tasmania.Three in four Labor voters and three in five Coalition voters support an end to logging".

"According to the letter, land clearing data released for Queensland and NSW confirmed more than 15 million hectares of forest and woodland (an area larger than greater Sydney) has been bulldozed in three years across the two states alone".

"Professor Hugh Possingham estimates for every 100 hectares bulldozed, as many as
500 native mammals,
2000 birds, and
15,000 reptiles die."

"In a 2022 ...forest ecologist, Professor David Lindenmayer from the ANU wrote that ending forest logging is the only way to meet Australia’s net zero target."

independentaustralia.net/polit

acf.org.au/scientists-call-for
250 scientists signed an open letter to the ALP conference calling on the Albanese government to end land clearing and native forest logging

#50C #climate #biodiversity #wildlife #EndNativeForestLogging #logging #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #extinction makers

Independent AustraliaLabor fails on the environment at national conference Is Anthony Albanese an environmental Luddite, asks Sue Arnold.
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