This just shows how expendable our natural ecosystems and wildlife are in exchange for cheap political expedience. This quote is taken from the latest report of the Bushfires Royal Commission’s independent monitor, Neil Comrie(p.63). Thousands of people, including scientists and biologists have been saying this since day one. For Recommendation 57 which covers impacts on …
Why must it take a tiny environment group to force a government to obey its own laws on threatened species? Jill Redwood wonders what happened to the Victorian Government’s morals. AS I WRITE, the bulldozers and chainsaws are brutalising another superb stand of ancient forest not far from where I am just out of Orbost, …
The Victorian Association of Forest Industries (VAFI) welcomed the announcement that the Victorian Government would invest $650,000 in Australia’s largest hardwood sawmill. The announcement was made last week by the Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional and Rural Development, The Hon Peter Ryan. VAFI CEO Lisa Marty said this investment, part of a $2.62 million …
A suppressed state govt report is telling us that our wildlife is fast being tipped into the pit of extinction – knowingly! Entire wildlife species are still being sacrificed for the greed of corporates. In this instance the logging mafia demands access to hundreds of thousands of ha of public native forests to shred for …
“One Stop Chop” legal report released States’ forest destruction shameful Who remembers the RFAs? They are a 15 year failed experiment of handing all environmental powers for our forests to the states. A damning legal report titled “One Stop Chop” has just been released and takes a look at the states’ forest management over that …
MARK COLVIN: Last night we ran an interview with the leading expert on Victoria’s faunal emblem the Leadbeater’s possum who warned of the creature’s likely extinction. Professor David Lindenmayer of the ANU draws on more than 30 years of work in the Victorian Ash forests studying the possum. He argued among other things that a …
Regional Forests Agreements drafted years ago have shown that ‘one stop shops’ for environmental approvals don’t work. So why are they being considered? IF A TREE FALLS IN A FOREST and no government wants to hear about it, does it make a sound? The magnificent wedge-tailed eagles who nest in it will hear it fall. …
Green groups looking at legal challenge to Regional Forest Agreements they blame for pushing species towards extinction A coalition of environment groups has urged the federal government to tear up its “failed” forestry deal with states, which they blame for unsustainable logging and pushing species such as the Leadbeater’s possum and numbat to the brink …
Did you know – National Parks are set to be developed, mined, logged, grazed and shot in – the works! And did you know – for a politician:• A personal phone call is worth 100 emails• A personal face to face visit is worth 100 calls So one face to face meeting means you represent …
Disturbing numbers of koalas are being killed and injured by loggers in timber plantations across south-east Australia. Thousands of koalas have taken refuge in the vast timber plantations that have emerged across the region, which are increasingly maturing for harvest. But koala experts and wildlife refuge staff say many koalas are being wiped out during the logging process. …
