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#loggingimpacts

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BellingenNSW

Forests, roads and mega fires
"More roads are associated with more fires"

"A problem arises when forest managers look at forests exclusively “through the lens of timber and dollar signs on trees."
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grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-p

Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
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osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #counternarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology

Grist · The Trump administration claims roads in forests prevent wildfires. Researchers disagree.By Joseph Winters
BellingenNSW

Mass aerial culling of koalas
The mindset of culling everything in this country is a colonial mentality.

"In the weeks leading up to the 2025 Federal Election, the Victorian Labor Government's approval of a barbaric slaughter by helicopter shooters, which killed 1,100 koalas, was comprehensively ignored. Mainstream media failed to report the killing, raising major censorship issues, which need to be addressed."

"I went to one small area of a cleared plantation, with about 30 eucalypts left and around 20 koalas clinging to the branches. This is the scene after harvesting, koalas trying to survive in little pockets of trees."

"There’s no excuse for Australia not to get it right. You can’t treat the environment like this. The mindset of culling everything in this country is a colonial mentality. Wildlife is suffering from our neglect. We have given nothing back to wildlife for all the good things they have done for us."

"Experts have suggested retaining 30% of the plantation blue gums, ensuring corridors for koala movement. The extent of current laws, plans and guidelines in place to protect koalas in Victoria can best be described as completely ineffective, whether they are forests, plantations or urban development habitats."
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independentaustralia.net/polit
#biodiversity #wildlife #extractivism #plantations #LoggingImpacts #harm #EPBCAct #koalas

Independent AustraliaLabor's election win hopefully a turning point for environmentFollowing a landslide victory, Labor will have to answer to 96% of Australians, who say more action is needed to protect the environment and native wildlife.
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BellingenNSW

The black summer bushfires’ toll on the vets and carers helping Australian wildlife

"When the 2019-20 fires erupted Veterinarians and carers responded on the front lines. In December 2019 the sky went black in many parts of Australia. In the following weeks, unprecedented bushfires killed 33 people, destroyed thousands of homes, decimated about 3bn animals and 24m hectares of habitat...Smoke was circumventing the globe."

"The trauma doesn’t go away."

Burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) is causing hotter, drier conditions and is increasing the risk of bushfires.

> Leave fossil fuels in the ground
> Stop incinerating bio-diversity
> Pay vets to treat Australian wildlife injured by bushfires and combustion engine infrastructure impacts.
> Support volunteer carers for wildlife

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theguardian.com/australia-news
#FossilFuels #HumanActivities #petroculture #fires #risks #Bushfires #2019Bushfires #LoggingImpacts #roadkill #wildlife #biodiversity #incineration #trauma #vets #care #volunteers #governance

The Guardian · ‘I sort of fell apart’: black summer bushfires’ toll on the vets and carers helping Australian wildlifeBy Susan Chenery
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BellingenNSW

NSW's native forest logging industry ruled not 'economically viable'.

"The recommendation was made by the NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) in its triennial analysis of the government-owned logging company Forestry Corporation of NSW."

"It found Forestry Corporation's native timber operation had been steadily losing money over the past decade, in part due to delivering timber to sawmills for less than the cost of providing it."

"It also noted concerns about logging making bushfires worse and damaging threatened species' habitat."

"The revelation comes the same week that Forestry Corporation released its annual report, which shows it suffered a $29 million loss in its native logging division in the 2022-2023 financial year. Studies have suggested shutting the industry could bring net economic benefits to the economy"
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abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/nsw
#NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #degradation #biodiversity #harm #ClimateBreakdown #wildlife #koalas #plantations #StopLoggingKoalaHabitat #bushfires #risks #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #destruction

ABC News · Report says NSW government should review 'long-term feasibility' of native logging industryBy Michael Slezak
BellingenNSW

The destruction of the koala habitat in NSW has reached The Washington Post

The government promised a refuge for the endangered marsupial, known as the Great Koala National Park. But 95 percent of the state forests under consideration are still open to logging by the state-owned logging company. “Forestry Corp is going gangbusters logging some of the best koala habitat because they know they are going to be shut out."

"Thousands of koalas died in devastating bushfires five years ago, and many populations were already in decline after a steady drumbeat of logging, housing developments, dog attacks, car strikes and other threats. In 2022, the federal government declared koalas endangered...A parliamentary inquiry warned in 2020 that the marsupials would become extinct by 2050 without bold action."
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washingtonpost.com/world/2024/
#koalas #habitat #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #BiodiversityCrisis #marsupials #NSWLogging #plantation #sprawl #cars #dogs #pets #extinction makers

The Washington Post · Australia is still logging the parks meant to become a koala reserveBy Michael E. Miller
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BellingenNSW

The government promised a koala national park. Then their loggers moved in

"Logging inside the Great Koala National Park assessment area is four times more intense when measured by area than in nearby state forests outside the park, and environmentalists say the targeted areas are wreaking maximal environmental damage...New analysis suggests the NSW government’s own logging arm is trashing the forest inside the proposed park." >>

smh.com.au/environment/conserv ($ wall)
#logging #MidNorthCoast #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NSW #biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #destruction #FCNSW #breaches #SaveTuckersNob #subsidies #bushfires #risks #crime #violence #ResourceFrontiers #offsets #ClimateEmergency #governance

The Sydney Morning Herald · The government promised a koala national park. Then the loggers moved inBy Caitlin Fitzsimmons
BellingenNSW

Greater gliders
"were once common along the east coast, but have since disappeared.. more than half the total population has been wiped out in just over two decades."

"Hundreds of endangered gliders have been sighted in NSW forests earmarked for logging. Surveys conducted by community conservationists documented more than 10 times the number of critical glider "den trees", and more than three times the number of gliders themselves, compared to those found by Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) in its mandated pre-logging surveys.The logging in those forests is planned to continue despite the regulator being told about the sightings."
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abc.net.au/news/2024-10-17/end
#gliders #koalas #biodiversity #FCNSW #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #harm #destruction #extinction #NSWLogging #TallagandaSF #bulga #CitizenScience #BioNet #extinction makers

ABC News · Government-contracted loggers underestimate the number of endangered greater gliders in areas set for loggingBy Michael Slezak
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BellingenNSW

"In a globally-disgraceful move, Julie Collins, PM Albanese’s new Minister for Forests, has actively helped pull the rug from under a European Union law to stop global deforestation by delaying its implementation another year...Australia has joined an embarrassing global line up of forest, wildlife and climate destroyers in lobbying for this delay and shamelessly welcoming it."

bobbrown.org.au/minister-for-f
#deforestation #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #SupplyChains #EUDR #EU #ExtinctionCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #forests #Australia #destruction

Bob Brown Foundation · Minister for Forests Julie Collins will break young Australia’s hearts: Brown – Bob Brown FoundationIn a globally-disgraceful move, Julie Collins, PM Albanese’s new Minister for Forests, has actively helped pull the rug from under a European Union law to stop
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BellingenNSW

Logging in NSW state forest halted after rare endangered coastal emu chicks hatch

"The Forestry Corporation of NSW had initially found nine eggs in the nest, but the state's environment department confirmed that its Saving our Species (SoS) team later found another egg had been laid."
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abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/for
#loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #BiodiversityCrisis #birds #emu #harm #FCNSW

ABC News · Logging in NSW state forest halted after rare emu chicks hatchBy Kim Honan
BellingenNSW

Forestry Corporation of NSW has ‘a pattern’ of illegally damaging the environment, scathing judgment finds

"A court has released a scathing judgment against the New South Wales’ state-owned forest agency, finding it had “a pattern” of illegally damaging the environment and had refused to accept the “true extent of the harm that it has caused”."

"The Land and Environment Court fined the Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) $360,000 for offences related to the logging of 53 eucalyptus trees in environmentally significant forest near Eden, in the state’s south, after the black summer bushfires."

"The court accepted an EPA submission that the agency had “a pattern of environmental offending, has not provided any compelling evidence of measures taken by it to prevent its reoffending, and does not accept the true extent of harm that it has caused by its offending...Justice Rachel Pepper agreed that any penalty imposed on the Forestry Corporation “must serve to deter it from future criminality”.

“The government is ultimately responsible for the Forestry Corporation, and have a duty to protect the people and environment of NSW from this rogue state-owned corporation."
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theguardian.com/australia-news
#harm #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #NSWlogging #FCNSW #StopLoggingKoalaHabitat #breaches #law #governance #criminality #SaveTuckersNob #BiodiversityCrisis #FCNSW #StopNativeForestLogging

The Guardian · Forestry Corporation of NSW has ‘a pattern’ of illegally damaging the environment, scathing judgment findsBy Lisa Cox
BellingenNSW

Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning from Indigenous People

"One estimate says that while native peoples only comprise some 4 or 5 percent of the world’s population, they use almost a quarter of the world’s land surface and manage 11 percent of its forests. In doing so, they maintain 80 percent of the planet’s biodiversity in, or adjacent to, 85 percent of the world’s protected areas."
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e360.yale.edu/features/native-

Vertebrate biodiversity on indigenous-managed lands in Australia, Brazil, and Canada equals that in protected areas

"Declines in global biodiversity due to land conversion and habitat loss are driving a ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ and many countries fall short of meeting even nominal targets for land protection. We explored how such shortfalls in Australia, Brazil and Canada might be addressed by enhancing partnerships between Indigenous communities and other government agencies that recognize and reward the existing contributions of Indigenous-managed lands to global biodiversity conservation, and their potential contribution to meeting international treaty targets."

"Many countries currently fall short of meeting targets to curb biodiversity loss.
Indigenous-managed lands represent one avenue by which national targets can be met.
Both Indigenous lands and conventional protected lands have high biodiversity.
Indigenous-managed lands have equal-or-higher biodiversity than protected areas.
Partnerships with Indigenous communities can ameliorate shortfalls in habitat protection for biodiversity conservation."
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doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.
#TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #conservation #BiodiversityCrisis #SettlerSociety #Australia #degradation #extinction #extractivism #LoggingImpacts #deforestation #ClimateEmergency

Yale E360Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning from Indigenous PeopleFrom Alaska to Australia, scientists are turning to the knowledge of traditional people for a deeper understanding of the natural world. What they are learning is helping them discover more about everything from melting Arctic ice, to protecting fish stocks, to controlling wildfires.
BellingenNSW

“The findings from this research have changed my views on clear-cutting and sustainable forest management. While clear-cut harvest produces a lot of dead organic matter, we now know that living trees are a critical source of active carbon that generates persistent soil carbon." Prof. Cindy Prescott
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forestry.ubc.ca/branchlines-ar
#soil #ecosystems #biodiversity #climate #LoggingImpacts #ClearFelling #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging

UBC Faculty of Forestry · The Carbon Flux of Life | UBC ForestryResearchers at UBC Forestry find vital carbon exchange between trees and soil, underscoring need to preserve trees during harvest for ecosystem health.
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BellingenNSW

Australian biodiversity conservation and 'fighting the government.'

"A rare legal win for an ecologist over a violent confrontation with NSW loggers exposed years of intimidation from corporate forestry representatives and law enforcement ."

"In environmental science circles, state surveillance and persecution of an ecologist whose findings refute or debunk state land management practices surprises no one. Last year, the International Science Council, a body representing more than 250 organisations, summarised that “the findings of environmental scientists … have long triggered censorship, intimidation, harassment and even violence when these challenge economic interests, political agendas, or ideologies”. It reported that scientists “have been physically attacked, wrongfully detained, and killed for their research and advocacy … threats and attacks are widespread in virtually all fields examining human impact on the environment”.

"A 2021 joint university study of Australian environmental scientists found more than half employed in industry or government “are routinely constrained in communicating scientific evidence on threatened species, mining, logging and other threats to the environment”. In some cases, “scientists self-censor information for fear of damaging their careers, losing funding or being misrepresented in the media. In others, senior managers or ministers’ officers prevented researchers from speaking truthfully on scientific matters...In all logged states, time spent fighting the government has overtaken the fieldwork time of ecologists and forest researchers."
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themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/j
#NSWForestry #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #breaches #violence #GumbainggirCountry #activism #ecology #conservation #science #researchers #Koalas #ThreatenedSpecies #extractivism #mining #logging #defamation #surveillance #CoffsHarbour #Gondwana #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #ExtinctionCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #democracy #governance #Australia

The Monthly · Combative natureA rare legal win for an ecologist over a violent confrontation with NSW loggers exposed years of intimidation from corporate forestry representatives and law enforcement
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BellingenNSW

Tasmanian logging protestor Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta is due in court on Monday. But as an Aboriginal ‘non-Australian citizen’, he doesn’t recognise its jurisdiction

"Regardless, he does fully expect, at some point, to be rearrested and charged with failing to appear on the trespass charges. He also anticipates the ultimate penalty could be a significant prison sentence or a fine of up to $45,000."

"Beyond his 50-plus years of environmental activism and protest against the wholesale destruction of Tasmania’s culturally totemic old growth forests, Everett-puralia meenamatta’s desire to be arrested and eventually rearrested – and perhaps jailed or fined – is strategically aimed to highlight issues of Indigenous sovereignty, legal jurisdiction, colonialism and the citizenship status of Indigenous people on this continent."
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theguardian.com/australia-news
#LoggingImpacts #NativeForests #destruction #environmentalists #activism #FirstNationsPeoples #treaty #TruthTelling #IndigenousPeople #law #Australia

The Guardian · ‘I’m ready for everything and I don’t care’: the man refusing to turn up at an Australian ‘colonial’ courtBy Paul Daley
BellingenNSW

Shocking act in Australian national park after rare animal’s death exposed

"The government was warned a greater glider was living in an ancient hollowed tree. Their contractors cut it down. Victorian authorities have confirmed with Yahoo the greater glider showed signs of blunt force trauma."
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au.news.yahoo.com/shocking-act
#LoggingImpacts #gliders #NationalParks #destruction #BiodiversityCrisis #EndangeredSpecies #FireManagement #Australia #wildlife

Yahoo News · Shocking act in Australian national park after rare animal’s death exposedBy Michael Dahlstrom
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