This map showed the unparalleled mapping of logging coupes planned to wipe out an entire landscape. VicForests plotted these coupes on the map just after the Brown Mt Court case in 2010. If we didn’t know them any better we’d say this was an act of revenge. This area is just to the west of …
Remarkably, Australia’s native forests store more carbon pollution than any other forests on Earth. If we protect them, we can immediately reduce emissions and store the pollution from nine coal-fired power stations every year. There now is a once in a generation opportunity to protect our native forests–a crucial lifeline for our climate. But to …
Below are ‘short’ comments from our perspective on the long report and recommendations. Please, if you are also concerned, we need more ‘normal people’ (not ratbags like Redwood) to call up talkbacks and write short letters to the papers. If you do feel the need to try and balance the simplified calls with more old …
This clip is of yet another endangered Long-footed Potoroo displaying a very prehensile and expressive tail. It was recently found (Winter 2010) in another patch of forest planned for logging. The survey crew who are now known as “Fauna and Flora Research Collective” found this using the infrared cameras. VicForests have been notified of the …
The endangered Spot-tailed Quoll’s demise over the past 20 years has been calmly witnessed by our state government, which has done nothing despite being listed under the FFG Act. Now that Quolls are considered functionally extinct in the Otways, and logging has been stopped in this region, DSE is now carrying out camera surveys there. …
The ABC’s Stateline program recently covered the controversial issue of Victoria’s lack of pre-logging flora and fauna surveys. It featured EEG and the volunteers who have been successfully capturing the endangered Long-footed Potoroo on the various remote cameras we use. It also showed the government’s response (or lack of). The 8 minute story was on …
The endangered Long-footed Potoroo has never before been filmed gathering and carrying nesting material in it’s tail. It was never known if this behavior was common. Here’s several short video clips which was taken in the Upper Yalmy catchment in East Gippsland by voluteer conservation surveyors. The area is on the Brumby Government’s logging plans …
After months of preparation, our legal team and supporters have gathered in Sale and begun the two-week Brown Mountain landmark trial. Everything is going very well so far. It’s difficult to report on a hearing that is in progress, particularly since we are the plaintiff, so this article might lack a few things. Our lead …
Timeline – EEG vs VicForests – Brown Mountain 12th August 2009 EEG requests Environment Minister Jennings to make an interim conservation order under the FFGA to protect Brown Mt and adjoining forests as a critical habitat due to a number of threatened species. 19th August 2009 Letter to Jennings asking for an urgent reply to …
Carter Holt Harvey, a plantation wood processing company in South Australia’s southeast told its workers it will will axe another 130 jobs, after last year cutting 90 jobs at the plywood plant. If this is happening in the plantation processing sector, which supplies 80% of all building products in Australia, the native forest sector must …
