In the 50 years since Leadbeaters possum was rediscovered, logging has destroyed more than 50% of the forests that were the possums habitat. Leadbeaters possum now lives in an area in the Central Highlands that has about 25 million trees. In their latest cynical publicity stunt, Vicforests have created artificial hollows in 78 of these …
A plan for a new national park to protect the endangered Leadbeater’s possum has been dealt a blow with revelations VicForests locked in millions of dollars worth of new logging contracts. State Labor ducked a proposal to create a Great Forest national park stretching from Kinglake to Mt Baw Baw and north-east up to Eildon in the recent …
View invoice (PDF) here Opening VicForests 2014 – 2015 Annual Report, the corporation’s chairman, Gordon Davies, makes the proud assertion that “These results have enabled us to pay increasing dividends to the Government, providing a financial return to the people of Victoria in addition to all of the social benefits the native timber industry provides”. This is reinforced …
VicForests is crowing that this 2014/15 year, it made a profit of $4.68 million. And for the first time in eight years, a dividend of $765 000 was paid to the people of Victoria via the Treasurer and VicForests is still thinking about paying last year’s owed dividend of $1.5 million. Whether we’ll see …
An East Gippsland environmentalist is calling for an investigation into areas of state forest that have failed to regenerate after being logged. Jill Redwood said there was a parcel of land outside of Bendoc, near the New South Wales border, where there was nothing but dead bracken on land that was logged 11 years ago. …
When the GECO crew scouted the Cottonwood range near Bendoc they found old growth forest is being logged 1km from this appallingly bad logged site. It was logged 11 years previously. Their photograph shows it had its earlier wattle regrowth scalped back to bare earth in the hope of coaxing eucalypts back first, but has …
One of the arguments often put forward in support of native forest logging is that all forest logged is subsequently regenerated. Even if this were true, and we know that it’s not, it is fatuous to pretend that regenerating forest provides the same ecological opportunities to Australian wildlife as more complex, mature forest that existed …
Green group of elderly women claim truckers are trying to intimidate them at forest protest by driving too close Knitting Nannas of Toolangi protest against the destruction of native forest They claim they have been intimidated and bullied by pro-loggers A logging truck allegedly drove dangerously past them, speeding Later, an image of a logged …
An environment group called Knitting Nannas of Toolangi is taking a complaint of intimidation to police after a logging truck drove past one of their gatherings at an “unacceptably high speed” last week, north of Melbourne. When members of the group posted photos of the truck on Facebook, it sparked a torrent of abuse from …
The logger who posted this boastful image on an environment group’s Facebook page clearly illustrates his industry’s brazen contempt for the community. It was posted the same day EEG and others met with DELWP on giant tree protection (21/10/15).Is this your “World’s best practice” VicForests?! Even without the graffiti. This is why we need urgent …
