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.
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.
Is there life after VicForests?
We are told clearfell logging is ‘sustainable’ and they protect the natural values … like this lonely, retained ‘habitat tree’.
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.
Logging oversight almost non-existent – report finds
On 15 March 2019 the Victorian government released a review of the regulation of logging in Victoria. The evidence is in and it is damning. Logging in Victoria is not effectively regulated.
Labor’s enviro policy to incinerate forests for power
Labor has said it would allow our forests to fuel furnaces for electricity generation if it gets in – as part of its proposed new environment legislation!
East coast Australia, the new Amazon
Australia’s east coast has been compared to the Amazon as a “deforestation front”. WWF’s The Living Planet report, produced every second year for the past 20 years, says global populations of vertebrate species have declined 60% since 1970. But koala numbers have disappeared at a much faster rate – more than 20% a decade – …
Threatened Greater Gliders killed for firewood
Our sister organisation, Gippsland Environment Group (GEG) has documented the clear failure of the Minister for the Environment Lily D’Ambrosio and her department (DELWP) to protect Greater Gliders and their critical habitat in the foothills north-west of Bairnsdale. This despite knowing of their presence for over a year. What makes this doubly criminal is that …