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  1. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Can ending native forest logging help the climate?
    Ending native forest logging would help Australia’s climate goals much more than planting trees

    "Logging bans are important – but no substitute for ending oil and gas.
    Net zero: deep, rapid, sustained cuts needed.
    Carbon accounting needs more clarity."

    "Deforestation and degradation by humans is likely to send global warming past 1.5°C, even if we achieve net-zero fossil fuel emissions. Protecting native forests is a critical way to prevent emissions, which must be achieved in parallel with a rapid transition to clean energy."

    "Australia is still logging native forests. Extensive land clearing continues for agriculture and urban development, as well as native forest harvesting on private land. In New South Wales, the government is looking into proposals for a Great Koala National Park, which would bring together state forests from the Clarence Valley to south of Coffs Harbour. But with no decision yet made, logging continues along both the north and south coasts, which were also hard hit by the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20."

    "If we compare forests protected for conservation with those harvested for commodity production in the Victorian Central Highlands, research shows conservation delivers the greatest climate benefits through continued forest growth and accumulating carbon stocks."

    Carbon accounting >>
    theconversation.com/ending-nat
    #deforestation #FossilFuels #DeforestationHotspot #NSW #extractivism #degradation #extinction #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #loggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #OldGrowthForests #biodiversity #koalas #conservation #ClimateEmergency #bushfires #ExtremeHeat

    #deforestation #fossilfuels #deforestationhotspot #nsw #extractivism #degradation
  2. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Who do these Europeans think they are trying to ban goods from areas where land clearing occurs?
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    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    Regulation on Deforestation Free Products (EUDR)
    Environmentalists accuse Cattle Australia of trying to use ‘loophole’ in international definitions to gain deforestation-free status.
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    theguardian.com/australia-news
    #DeforestationHotspot #deforestation #Australia #meat #cattle #SupplyChains #EUDR #EU #climate #GHG

    #deforestationhotspot #deforestation #australia #meat #cattle #supplychains
  3. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act
    The law is fundamentally flawed.

    abc/ 2020: "We have an Act that doesn't prevent extinction, even though that is the primary national Act to conserve our unique biodiversity. It's the classic death by a thousand cuts. You could lose the species because each of those threats have been assessed independently rather than at the same time...We are seeing our environment in a state of steady decline over the 20 years since the Act has been in operation."

    "Australia currently has the worst rate of mammal extinction anywhere in the world." Professor Hughes
    abc.net.au/news/2020-08-25/env

    Why Australia's environmental laws aren't working | ABC News
    youtube.com/watch?v=6YMzxf2ZdB
    #EPBC #biodiversity #Conservation #DeforestationHotspot #Australia #extinction #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #LoggingIndustry #regulation #governance

    #epbc #biodiversity #conservation #deforestationhotspot #australia #extinction