The myth that native forest timber harvesting does not increase the risk of devastating wildfires is blown apart in The Forest Wars, writes Philippa Skinner.
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Police arrested two activists peacefully protesting the NSW Forestry Corporation鈥檚 logging of Bulga State Forest. Ben Radford reports.
A聽camp has been set up to support protesters trying to stop native forests being logged聽in Bulga State Forest. Kerry Smith reports.
Activists are calling for the end to聽native forest logging in NSW state forests. Rachel Evans听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.
More than 100 people calling for urgent action to protect native forests from being logged rallied in Martin Place ahead of a debate in parliament. Jim McIlroy reports.
Campaigners called for an end to logging of Western Australia鈥檚 native forests, reports Petrina Harley.
Communities are organising to protect the remains of burnt state forests聽for their intrinsic value and for endangered species, writes Paul Oboohov.
First Nations leaders and environmental activists who stopped logging operations in Victoria and New South Wales in early June said the continent鈥檚 environmental crimes can be traced back to colonisation. Traditional Custodians must lead the way on forest management, writes聽Kim Croxford.
Road building, ahead of logging, has begun in the unburnt southern section of Nambucca State Forest in New South Wales, writes Kerry Smith.
Proposed new logging rules for NSW public land will convert much of the north coast's public forests into 鈥渜uasi-plantations鈥, reduce buffers on vital headwater streams and remove protections from most threatened animals and plants.
The proposed changes remove the need to look for and protect most threatened plants and animals. Only 14 animal species and populations are to retain their current protection, 23 will have their protection removed and 26 will have their protection significantly reduced.
Koalas on the NSW North Coast are threatened with extinction by proposed increases in logging intensity and imminent extensions of timber contracts, according to the North East Forest Alliance.
NEFA spokesperson Dailan Pugh said: 鈥淚n order to meet current wood supply contracts, the NSW Government plans to zone most of the coastal state forests for intensive logging and clearfelling, and to remove the already inadequate protection for core koala habitat.
Environmentalists are outraged that Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has called for a review of the protection status of Victoria鈥檚 faunal emblem, the critically endangered Leadbeater鈥檚 possum, so new logging zones in Victoria鈥檚 central highlands can be opened.
Joyce wrote to Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews on March 26, criticising the decision to reduce the logging quota offered to Gippsland鈥檚 Heyfield mill operators Australian Sustainable Hardwood (ASH) from 155,000 cubic metres a year to 80,000 cubic metres in 2017鈥18 and 60,000 cubic metres in the next two years.
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