Eagle slaughter – update
Text messages … shows “calculated, unacceptable and disgraceful behaviour”, to quote the magistrate.
Tubbut farmer charged with cruelty and killing protected wildlife
Judy Edwards, farmer at Tubbut, was charged $10,000 in the Orbost Court on 5th December 2019 under the Wildlife Act and the prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. She is a neighbour of John Auer who is accused of poisoning over 400 Wedge-tailed Eagles. Judy Edwards was up on 36 charges but some had been …
Unwrapping the forest announcement
It looks like the small areas offered for Greater Glider protection are lower quality. Old growth will be handed to VicForests to identify.
Older forests are less flammable
This research contradicts one of the central assumptions in Australian fire management – that forest accumulate fuel over time and so become increasingly flammable.
Fire management out of control
The protective vegetation of ancient mahogany trees were destroyed as part of planned burn ‘management’. Some of these were hundreds of years old and posed no risk to anyone. Yet no one is accountable for this shameful vandalism.
The case to stop VicForests logging critical habitat for our threatened possums
EJA is asking for a Federal Court order to stop logging in 41 forest coupes in Victoria’s Central Highlands that are home to Greater Gliders and Leadbeater’s Possums.
Is there life after VicForests?
We are told clearfell logging is ‘sustainable’ and they protect the natural values … like this lonely, retained ‘habitat tree’.
EEG secures tougher conditions for waste burner
EEG has negotiated more strict conditions in EPA’s approval of a giant garbage incinerator. This waste burner is planned to be built as part of the Reflex paper factory’s operations in the Latrobe Valley.
Forest biomass = BIO-MASSACRE
Both major parties have chosen to bow down to industry and/or union pressure to allow the burning of public forests for power generation.
Something smelly in the air
EEG is challenging an EPA approval for a massive rubbish incinerator as a dirty solution to Victoria’s mounting waste problem.