Before our forebears arrived with axes and chainsaws, the old growth forest full of 90mt tall giants covered 80% of the Central Highlands (north-east of Healesville). Now only 1% survives. The old-growth is almost gone and on the verge of being unrecoverable. One more bush fire could send it the way of the Thylacine, and …
A report commissioned by VicForests has shown that there is enough plantation wood in Victoria to end native forest woodchipping for paper production in Victoria. For years, VicForests has been misleading the public by saying that there is not enough plantation wood to make paper here in Australia. This rhetoric has lead them to continue …
VicForests will not award 8 of the 16 logging contracts from the latest tender process because of market conditions. A Central Gippsland contractor says at least 7 forest contractors will lose their businesses and about 40 forest workers and drivers will lose their jobs. It will also be difficult to sell millions of dollars of …
Harvey Norman’s chain of forest destruction broken by activists across Australia. Four arrests, four massive actions. Check out this amazing new film from The Last Stand. On Wednesday 24 August, almost 50 activists took action at four sites across Australia to protest Harvey Norman’s sale of wood products sourced from native forest destruction. Four …
There is a massive re-rating of native forest going on, even as world resolve to tackle climate change crumbles. Deforestation accounts for roughly 20 per cent of our greenhouse problem, on the ”sink” side of the ledger (because it’s not just about how much gas we pump up into the atmosphere – by clearing trees …
(Forest Flogging Guarantee Act?) Driven by our Brown Mountain win a year ago, the Baillieu government is planning to rewrite the 23 year old environmental law that was to protect threatened species – to allow better protection of the logging industry. The deliberate inaction and disregard of the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act by the …
VICTORIA’S old-growth forests could be opened to more logging under a state government plan to dilute environmental laws designed to protect threatened species. The Age has learnt that the Department of Sustainability and Environment is quietly examining Victoria’s 23-year-old Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act so that the existence of animals deemed threatened or endangered is …
How can an audit that has found environmental breaches on almost all the coupes checked possibly end up with a result of 93% compliance?The latest audit of logging in Victoria’s forests will leave many environmentalists convinced that these Audits are totally worthless exercises that have done nothing to protect biodiversity in our forests. One of …
AusWest targeted in Harvey Norman markets campaign The market boycott campaign on Harvey Norman furniture and their suppliers is the logical conclusion after decades of overlogging and forest destruction says local environment group Environment East Gippsland. “Less than 1% of the logs taken out of a forest end up as furniture, yet this high end …
VicForests has again been given aid of almost $1.3 million to clean up degraded clearfelled public forests that should have been rehabilitated and paid for by VicForests years ago. “What other business has made a loss every year yet is rewarded by millions of dollars of tax payers money to keep going?” asked Jill Redwood …
