#gknp — Public Fediverse posts

NSW Forestry born-again as eco-forestry looking for new markets

"The forestry industry in northern NSW is considering new financial opportunities in eco-forestry and environmental markets."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-16/great-koala-national-park-forestry-future-carbon-market/105954932
#Biodiversity #wildlife #NSWLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #LoggingIndustry #MidNorthCoast #GKNP #KoalaTouristPark #firebreaks #LoggingAndLandclearing #extractivism #MinisterialDiscretion #EPBCAct

Image: The Bongil Bongil National Park has been included in the new Great Koala National Park, but the logging monster is always lurking... (Art by 'Danka')

Protest Erupts in Orara East State Forest as Logging Begins Ahead of Koala Park Declaration.

Just weeks before the promised proclamation of the Great Koala National Park, chainsaws & heavy machinery have roared into Orara East State Forest.

#NSWpol #Auspol #GKNP
https://1earthmedia.com/logging-orara-east-state-forest-before-koala-park-declaration/

Forestry Corp NSW Under Scrutiny:
EPA's Compliance Update Highlights Issues in Native Forestry.
FCNSW incurred $millions in fines since bushfire 2019.

If they succeed in lobbying against #GKNP the koala will again be an election issue for Minns. imho

#auspol #nswpol
https://1earthmedia.com/forestry-corporation-nsw-has-a-compliance-problem/

The Great Koala National Park is on the chopping block as the timber industry lobbies to cut the park's size to 37,000 ha to 58,000 ha, considerably less than the 176,000 ha on the table.
Minns will decide the boundaries & size soon.

#auspol #nswpol #GKNP
https://1earthmedia.com/loggers-take-a-chainsaw-to-great-koala-national-park-idea/

The Case for the Great Koala National Park.

With NSW Government poised to make a critical decision on the establishment of the GKNP, conservationists & economists are urging Premier Chris Minns to seize this transformative opportunity.

#NSWpol #auspol #GKNP
https://1earthmedia.com/great-koala-national-park-decision-soon/

The Great Koala National Park is down to the wire with a government decision expected to finalise the boundaries within a month.
The forestry industry is lobbying for a 60,000ha version, cut down from 176,000 hectares.

Got a minute to help?

#NSWpol #auspol #GKNP
https://1earthmedia.com/the-great-koala-national-park-a-ripper-of-a-fight-for-our-furry-mates/

Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines
Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling...

"Since time immemorial, the Gumbaynggirr Nation has cared for country and we know that the Dunggirr is sacred to the First Nations peoples of Bellingen Shire."

"Koalas cannot read signs or distinguish boundaries between native forests, state forest plantations or your backyard."

"Over decades locals and tourists have come to know about the Gleniffer koalas, through registered sightings and expert evidence. Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling, even though Forestry Corporation of NSW (FC NSW) has no social licence."

"After operating within our Shire for over three decades, FC NSW have deliberately withdrawn any connection with the community and take no responsibility for the cumulative damage that the corporation has inflicted on our community’s waterways, roads and bridges".

"...We need to rethink the age-old argument between plantations versus habitat.This requires courage because we all need to have these conversations regarding the remnants in plantations and the wildlife therein."

Bellingen Environment Centre
Take me to the article>>
https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/letter-to-the-editor-bellingen-environment-centre-calls-for-unity
#Savetuckersnob #SavePineCreek #GKNP #NSWLogging #koala #BiodiversityCrisis #climate #BellingenLogging #GumbaynggirrCountry #Gleniffer #RemnantVegetation #FCNSW #legitimacy

We are raising funds to help save Gleniffer forest and Koalas.

The Koala is Australia's National Icon and also now an endangered species. Recently the Forestry Corporation moved to destroy vital Koala habitat in our area – Tuckers Nob State Forest (Gleniffer), in the heart of the proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP). The community rallied against it, and we have been successful in suspending logging operations.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/voice-for-koalas-be-a-part-of-the-solution
#SaveTuckersNob #NativeForests #biodiversity #Koalas #ClimateEmergency #BellingenLogging #GKNP

Forestry Corp has started logging compartment 14 of the Pine Creek State Forest within the boundaries of the Great Koala National Park (GKNP).

"The compartment is bordered on three sides by Bongil Bongil National Park. It contains a ‘koala hub’ – the only interim government policy protection afforded koala in the GKNP."

"Fully 50-60% of every tree felled is ‘waste’ for Forestry’s purposes. Non target species such as casuarina (the primary food source of endangered glossy black cockatoo) is swept away as trash. All this is bulldozed into 3-meter high long windrows and burned. What are the CO2 losses from this practice one wonders."
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https://knittingnannas.org/2023/10/23/breaking-clear-fell-logging-starts-in-pine-creek-state-forest-today/

Pine Creek State Forest Compartments 14 - 18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSHfMJn6sj0

#PineCreek #FriendsofPineCreek #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #conservation #koalas #birds #cockatoo #GreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #connectivity #BongilBongil to #BindariNationalPark #GKNP #biodiversity #ClimateCrisis

Logging in the Great Koala National Park without current threatened species surveys?

"Koalas, greater gliders and other threatened species have not been counted since 2017, well before the 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires and floods – but that has not stopped logging on an industrial scale in Clouds Creek State Forest and other native timber forests within the proposed Great Koala National Park in NSW."

"Forestry Corp’s ‘business as usual’ is not working for the koala or other threatened species, such as the greater glider. Logging procedures must change to include up-to-date wildlife surveys and events such as major floods and bushfires."

“It’s actually shocking that there is currently no requirement to conduct ecological surveys in our native forests prior to the commencement of logging." Greens MP and spokesperson for the Environment Sue Higginson

“The NSW Minister for the Environment and the Minister for Agriculture should immediately require pre-logging ecological surveys to be conducted to ensure that threatened species are being protected from industrial logging."
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https://1earthmedia.com/lack-of-threatened-species-surveys-hasnt-stopped-logging/
#GKNP #ThreatenedSpecies #koalas #gliders #IndustrialLogging #NSWLogging #WildlifeSurveys #MPG #MontrealProcessWorkingGroup #ExtinctionCrisis #biodiversity #habitat

..."To highlight the ongoing threat to koalas and Aboriginal culture from industrial logging of koala habitat in the Coffs Harbour region."

"The National Parks Association had requested that City of Coffs Harbour Councillor Jonathan Cassell make a small presentation in the form of a local Gumbaynggirr designed koala (Dunggiirr) t-shirt to the Prime Minister, to highlight the ongoing threat to koalas and Aboriginal culture from industrial logging of koala habitat in the Coffs Harbour region."

https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/albo-receives-a-surprise-koala-t-shirt-on-behalf-of-great-koala-national-park-supporters
#koalas #habitat #IndustrialLogging #BellingenLogging #NativeForests #CoffsHarbour #GKNP

The Great Koala National Park without any Koalas

"The proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP) on the NSW Mid North Coast between Kempsey, Grafton and Armidale is home to 1 in 5 of the wild Koalas in New South Wales".
An excellent overview by Mark Graham >
https://1earthmedia.com/the-great-koala-national-park-without-any-koalas/

Taxpayers hit with $5 million bill for Forestry Corp to log koala habitat

NSW’s 12 Month’s of Operations Plan Portal shows that Forestry Corporation NSW plans to log 30,813ha (over 17%) of state forest that constitutes the Great Koala National Park (GKNP) proposal. "
https://1earthmedia.com/taxpayers-hit-with-5-million-bill-for-forestry-corp-to-log-koala-habitat/
#GKNP #logging #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #Kalang #NambuccaRiver #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #koalas #water #biodiversity #extinction makers

The NSW government has promised to create “an iconic Great Koala National Park” but there is a big problem ... they’re still logging it! If we’re going save koalas from extinction, this must stop!
https://www.koalapark.org.au/
Image: Forest embassy Bellingen
#biodiversity #logging #GKNP #NSW

@environment @Bellingen

Dr. Tim Cadman about clear felling Tuckers Nob forest, compartments 26/27, also know as the proposed Great Koala National Park.
on Coffs Coast Breakfast (start 38 min - 49 min)

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/coffscoast-breakfast/coffs-coast-breakfast/102768584

Some points mentioned:

The impacts of clear felling on koalas and wildlife.
Koalas and other wildlife are 'blind' to so called 'plantation' labels or old growth forests.
The proposed logging period also overlaps with the 'vulnerable to extinction' marsupials' breeding season. ( September and February)
The noise, trucks, dust, fires, smoke and pesticides of industrial logging operations making the area unlivable for all living beings.
Possibly an uninhabitable scenic Gleniffer for approx. 2 - 5 years due to being tuned into an industrial site.
The short notice to (some) residents.
The undemocratic nature of non-consultation.
The fobbing off to a (FCNSW) website.

At approx. 47 min FCNSW had their statement read out.

#audio #Gleniffer #residents #Bellingen #pesticides #fires #smoke #trucks #noise #pollution #FCNSW #logging #ClearFelling #GKNP #GreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #biodiversity #climate #RosesRoad #GlenifferRoad #StopLogging #TN26/27 #SaveTuckersNob

#SaveTuckersNob meeting, Bellingen

Residents and friends of biodiversity (more-than-human systems) around Roses Road and Gleniffer Road, are invited to a picnic.

Saturday 2nd September
603 Roses Road
12.00- 2.00 pm

#logging #BellingenLogging #deforestation #ClearFelling #RosesRoad #GlenifferRoad #Bellingen #traffic #trucks #dust #FossilFuel #machinery #livability #water #catchment #consultation #RemnantVegetation #koalas #GKNP #biodiversity #conservation #ClimateEmergency #governance #SaveTuckersNob

A reminder: Australia has committed to collectively end forest loss and land degradation by 2030.

Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use pledges:

"Conserve forests and other terrestrial ecosystems and accelerate their restoration."

"To adapt to climate change; and to maintain other ecosystem services." 

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20230418175226/https://ukcop26.org/glasgow-leaders-declaration-on-forests-and-land-use/
#NSW #deforestation #GKNP #conservation #forests #restoration #ecosystems #Biodiversity #climate

We just have to get out of logging

"Conservationists claim harvesting operations are mismanaged, logged too intensively and come at a cost to the taxpayer and the environment."

"Dailan Pugh from the North East Forest Alliance says the biggest problem is the loss of mature trees, which are the homes and future for wildlife...We need to give our wildlife a chance to recover, we need to value our forests for the water they yield and — most importantly — the carbon they take out of the atmosphere."

"The NSW government has committed to creating a Great Koala National Park, which will take in existing state forests that span from the Clarence Valley to south of Coffs Harbour. Concerns over dwindling koala numbers across NSW led the Natural Resources Commission to lead independent work on how koalas responded to harvesting in state forests".

"Victoria and WA will stop native timber logging in 2024"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-26/nsw-timber-industry-awaits-answers-on-native-forests-koala-park/102775084
#CourtInjunctions #Law #logging #StateForests #NewryStateForest #SaveTuckersNob #GKNP #NSW #biodiversity #climate #wildlife #NativeForest #StopLogging #koalas

Logging suspension in Newry State Forest extended in Land and Environment Court
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-25/newry-state-forest-logging-suspension-extended/102774784

Indigenous Elders in tears after NSW agrees to suspend logging sacred forest
https://au.news.yahoo.com/indigenous-elders-in-tears-after-nsw-agrees-to-suspend-logging-sacred-forest-080123955.html
#NSW #NSWLogging #GumbaynggirrLand #NewryStateForest #GKNP

Half of species under threat in NSW are on course to become extinct in next 100 years

Stop business as usual , stop logging and land clearing now!

The review "found n a t i v e f o r e s t l o g g i n g was damaging f o r e s t e c o s y s t e m s and the habitat of native species and was scathing of the state’s offset scheme."

"Laws meant to protect the environment in New South Wales are failing and unlikely to ever succeed unless substantially changed, according to a scathing review that warns half of the species under threat in the state are on course to become extinct within the next 100 years."

"The independent review of the Biodiversity Conservation Act, released on Thursday, makes 58 recommendations to overhaul nature protections in the state and commit the government to preserving the environment for future generations."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/24/nsw-environment-protection-laws-unlikely-to-succeed-without-major-overhaul-damning-review-finds
#Biodiversity #Conservation #NSW #law #koalas #GKNP #BellingenLogging #NativeForest #Logging #NewryStateForest #StopLogging #TuckersNobSF #SaveTuckersNob #climate #extinction makers

Koalas Need Trees - #SaveTuckersNob
Koalas are in serious decline suffering from the effects of habitat destruction, domestic dog attacks, bushfires and road crashes.

"Koalas are forecast to be e x t i n c t i n N S W b e f o r e 2 0 5 0 unless we act quickly.
Cutting down trees for urban development, logging and agriculture is destroying koala habitat and threatens their existence — yet the government is failing to protect koala habitat."

First koala growling heard this season in the Tuckers Nob state forest region. In a few days they are planning to destroy the endangered marsupials' habitat.

https://www.nature.org.au/koalas_need_trees
#Bellingen #GNKP #logging #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #GKNP #koalas #biodiversity #extinction makers

STOP LOGGING!
Legal action to protect Aboriginal cultural sites leads to temporary logging halt in Newry State Forest

"Legal action in the Land and Environment Court has led to a temporary halt to logging in a state forest that could form part of the proposed Great Koala National Park. Gumbaynggirr Elders have launched the action in a bid to permanently cease logging in the forest."

"The Great Koala National Park, as it's proposed, would connect 175,000 hectares of state forests — including Newry State Forest — with existing national parks, creating a nature reserve of more than 300,000 hectares."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-23/newry-state-forest-logging-temporarily-halted-legal-action/102759520
#NewryStateForest #IndigenousKnowledge #NSWLogging #ForestryCorporation #GumbaynggirrLand #CulturalHeritage #koala #law #GoodNews #GKNP #StopLogging

Logging the Great Koala National Park, Tuckers Nob State forest, Bellingen

#Bellingen #logging #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #koalas #biodiversity #conservation #GKNP #TuckersNobSF #SaveTuckersNob #destruction #climate #bushfires

The Bellingen logging sites, Tuckers Nob State forest, Gleniffer Road
It should have been a Great Koala National Park.
One can assume that the proposed logging along Tuckers Nob State forest, compartment 26/27 will also look like this.

#Bellingen #logging #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #koalas #biodiversity #GKNP #TuckersNobSF #SaveTuckersNob #destruction
click image!

Logging the Mid North Coast of NSW in the midst of a biodiversity and climate crisis

The Forestry Corporation is planning to log native forests of Bellingen. This 'panic logging' within the proposed Great Koala National Park. The broad-scale clear-felling will endanger the koala and all of bio-diverse more-than-human systems. It will heat up the climate and increase the fire risks.
The many logging trucks and heavy fossil fuel machinery will be a hazard for all of Bellingen and the surrounding areas. Noise, dust and pollution will lessen all of our lives.
There was no consultation process with affected 'stakeholders' or the people of Bellingen. This is undemocratic.

Friends of Tucker’s Nob:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/250189120465227/
https://twitter.com/BelloActivists
https://www.facebook.com/BellingenEnvironmentCentre/

#Bellingen #NSW #logging #BellingenLogging #FossilFuel #pollution #BiodiversityLoss #GKNP #degradation #FossilFuel #pollution #BiodiversityLoss #GKNP #degradation #NewryStateForest #SaveTuckersNob

New research shows: "Alarmingly, climate change is making bushfires more frequent."
Logging and 'thinning' Bellingen does too.

"We excluded deliberate burns such as hazard reduction (or prescribed) burns lit by fire authorities. We also excluded places that had been logged, because they’re known to be at a high risk of severe fire – and so including them would have skewed the results."

"Clearly, we must seek to limit the number of wildfires. An obvious response is to take more strident steps to tackle climate change. But even if humanity meets this huge global challenge, it will be a long time before we see demonstrable changes in climate conditions."

"More immediate options include managing vegetation to reduce flammability. For example, activities such as logging and thinning can make forests more flammable, so such practices should be halted in these vulnerable ecosystems."

"Greater efforts are needed to conserve biodiversity that is sensitive to fire, and to conserve ecosystems at risk of collapse. We must also embrace new technologies to detect wildfires as soon as they ignite, and suppress them as quickly as possible."

https://theconversation.com/yes-climate-change-is-bringing-bushfires-more-often-but-some-ecosystems-in-australia-are-suffering-the-most-211683

Logging elevated the probability of high-severity fire in the 2019–20 Australian forest fires
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01717-y

What environmental and climatic factors influence multidecadal fire frequency?
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4610

#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #fire #risks #water #Bellingen #Gleniffer #Gumbaynggirr #MidNorthCoast #logging #BellingenLogging #TuckersNobSF #GKNP #ClearFelling #koala #SaveTuckersNob #bushfires #biodiversity #conservation

Nature in Australia is in desperate trouble
End broad-scale land clearing and native forest logging.

"Across the nation, 500,000 hectares or more of land are cleared annually.
For every 100 hectares of native woodland cleared,
about 2000 birds,
15,000 reptiles and
500 native mammals will die." 

"Land clearing and native forest logging exacerbate climate change.."

"We urge you to commit, and act, to end broad-scale land clearing and native forest logging in this term of government. Ending extinction, limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and reversing nature’s decline depends on it."

"The mission to recover nature can only be fully realised by respecting the rights and honouring the knowledge of First Peoples in land management and forest stewardship."
https://www.endlandclearing.org.au/

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Bellingen - Tuckers Nob proposed logging/ clear felling Compartments 26/27

Meeting at
Gleniffer Hall
Thursday 17 of August at 6 pm

#logging #NSW #Bellingen #BellingenLogging #GKNP #Biodiversity #wildlife #climate #care #ecocide #TuckersNobStateForest

Bellingen - Tuckers Nob proposed logging/ clear felling Information Meeting

To the community of Tuckers Nob State Forest and any residents concerned by proposed Industrial Logging of Compartments 26/27 you are invited to a meeting by Friends of Tuckers Nob at

Gleniffer Hall
Thursday 17 of August at 6 pm

#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #fire #risks #water #Bellingen #catchment #RosesRd #GlenifferRd #trucks #traffic #noise #dust #Gleniffer #meeting #Gumbaynggirr #MidNorthCoast #logging #BellingenLogging #TuckersNobSF #woodchips #GKNP #ClearFelling #koala

‘Stop native forest logging’
"It appears that they are trying to get as much out of the GKNP area as they can before the GKNP is put in place."
Meetings and campaigns>
https://www.echo.net.au/2023/08/town-meeting-tonight-at-bellingen-as-locals-keep-pressure-on-loggers-at-newry-state-forest/

250 Australian scientists and experts call for an end to land clearing and native forest logging
https://www.endlandclearing.org.au/
#GKNP #NSW #logging #BellingenLogging #Extractivism #GetTheStuffOutOfHere #Bellingen #biodiversity #climate

A Letter to NSW Government for the urgent need to install the long-promised Great Koala National Park
https://timcadman.wordpress.com/2023/08/03/the-urgent-need-to-install-the-long-promised-great-koala-national-park/
#GKNP #TarkeethStateForest #TuckersNobSF #logging #Broadscale #ClearFelling #NSW #koalas #habitat #biodiversity

Forestry Corp taking a wrecking ball to Gumbaynggirr culture and the Great Koala National Park

"The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the states leading environmental advocacy organisation, has today condemned targeted and intensive logging of forests within the proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP) by Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW)."

"Newry State Forest on the Mid-North Coast (10km west of Urunga) is the most recent target of these operations inside the proposed GKNP...31,000 hectares of forest are currently slated for logging within the boundaries of the proposed GKNP over the next 12 months. This represents nearly 18 per cent of the entire area proposed for gazettal to form the GKNP.”

https://www.nature.org.au/forestry_corp_taking_wrecking_ball_to_gumbaynggirr_culture_gknp

NSW clearing 640 football fields of land per day, the majority unexplained

https://www.nature.org.au/nsw_clearing_640_football_fields_of_land_per_day_the_majority_unexplained

#GKNP #Gumbaynggirr #SacredSites #NewryStateForest #logging #LandClearing #NSW #climate #biodiversity #conservation

Stop #Logging the Great #Koala National Park
Friends of Pine Creek,
A group of citizens committed to protecting the natural and cultural values of #PineCreek #StateForest on the #MidNorthCoast of NSW, Australia
https://friendsofpinecreek.com/
#SavePineCreek #BongilBongilNationalPark #CoffsHarbour #GKNP #BindarriNationalPark #GumbaynggirrLand #ClimateAction

Stop logging in the Great Koala National Park
"17% of state forests planned for the Great #Koala National Park could be logged in the next 12 months. Of the 175,000ha of #StateForests that constitutes the GKNP proposal (green) Forestry Corporation NSW plans to log over 17% in the next 12 months (red), including some of the most important koala habitat in NSW (white). Your taxes are being spent to pay for it."
MAP>
https://koalapark.nature.org.au/
#Bellingen #Roads #Trucks #BellingenLogging #CoffsHarbour #Sawtell #GKNP #PanicLogging #Biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis