#loggingindustry — Public Fediverse posts
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'Thinning' native forest and wildlife: 'Logging by another name'
"Scrutiny over WA government's decision to 'eco-thin' landmark South West forests."
"These forests, globally recognised biodiversity hotspots, were clear-felled by loggers for almost 200 years, until native logging was banned entirely in 2024."
"A South West landowner says contractors are ripping up trees without thought, and an independent scientist argues there is no scientific basis for the practice...It does not seem like much has changed from the preceding years of native logging.They don't care about the environment; [the contractors] are just ripping up trees for money."
"Almost 146,000 hectares of state forests and timber reserves have been earmarked as potentially suitable for ecological thinning."
A globally acknowledged expert in conservation biology and landscape ecology, Professor Lindenmayer said there was limited scientific evidence to support ecological thinning. The reality is that forests have been in Australia for about 180 million years and that means that people haven't been messing with them for 179,930 years, and they've survived very well … without those kinds of interventions." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-25/ecological-thinning-experiment-wa-native-logging/107071374
#LoggingIndustry #NativeForests #biodiversity #glyphosate #pollution #deforestation #extractivism #thinning #wildlife #Australia -
Koala severely injured by logging action
"The koala was euthanised on welfare grounds the following day." >>
https://coffscoast.newsofthearea.com.au/locals-distressed-by-koala-death-at-pine-creek-state-forest
#koalas #LoggingIndustry #plantations #NSW #MidnorthCoast #mortalities #FCNSW #PineCreek #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #CollateralHarm -
Creating diversified revenue streams out of 'The koala park' -
carbon credits and logging?
Nature as cash cow"A long-promised New South Wales great koala national park is set to go ahead after the Albanese government greenlit the state to receive hundreds of millions of dollars for protecting native forests previously earmarked for logging."
"...Polluting companies are allowed to buy an unlimited number of credits – also known as offsets – to count as their own cuts while continuing to pollute. Scientists have warned limiting the climate crisis requires rapid direct cuts in emissions and that carbon offsets should be used sparingly."
"NSW Greens MP Sue Higginson said the logging industry was unprofitable and the government should end it regardless of carbon credit revenue. “Reducing our forests in NSW to cash cows and offsets for climate polluters … sends a signal across the country that governments can disregard the intrinsic value of nature in favour of the latest get-out-of-jail-free card for climate polluters." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/26/great-koala-national-park-nsw-carbon-credit-deal
#biodiversity #NativeForests #FossilFuels #climate #pollution #offsets #LoggingIndustry #koalas #wildlife #ClimateCrisis -
Logging the Promised Land, Bellingen/ Gleniffer
Promised Land Forest! Tuckers Nob, 250 ha, 130ha clearfall, 120 ha thinning.
Stakeholder Consultation - Remnant Forest Protection & Tuckers Nob Forestry Operations Compartments 8, 10, 11, 12, 17 18 >>
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TuckersRemnantsSurvey-ResidentsHow NSW Forestry converts native forest to plantations , Dr Tim Cadman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wY9HzWwEvsUnfortunately most residents and Friends groups use (closed) proprietary social media platforms, owned by the parent company of Meta Platforms
#SaveTuckersNob #FriendsOfTuckersNob #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #loggingIndustry #loggingIndustry #loggingImpacts #biodiversity #remnants #wildlife #koalas #harm #Gleniffer #Bellingen #PromisedLand #NSW #MIdNorthCoast #SaveChristmasHoles -
Modern forestry techniques are destroying biodiversity, poisoning communities and compounding the climate crisis
"Perversely, the use of glyphosate and other herbicides is ensured by industrial monoculture plantations around the world. Under the pretext of climate change mitigation schemes, millions of trees are planted. The plantations do provide raw materials for biofuels and act as powerful carbon sinks. But when a natural forest is converted to a plantation, a natural ecosystem is destroyed. Biodiversity is lost and organic matter and nutrient levels are depleted. In a bid to manage reduced soil fertility, forestry planners use artificial fertilizers and herbicides. Each year, 10 million hectares of natural forest are lost to monoculture plantations. The policy is not addressing climate change. It’s compounding it."
"A 2019 study showed that 80 percent of First Nations communities in Canada are located in fire-prone regions that are often isolated. But the imperatives of eco-capitalism and the commodification of nature have long taken precedence over the traditional knowledge of Indigenous communities—to our collective peril."
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https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/canadian-forestation-policies-add-fuel-to-the-fires
#loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #FlammableForest #plantations #pesticides #BellingenLogging #GumbaynggirrCountry #RuralNSW #MidNorthCoast #monoculture #SaveTuckersNob #pesticides #bushfires #climate #IndigenousPeoples #ClimateExtremes -
Forest wars and the angel of history
Nothing shall stand in the way of making money"Forestry Tasmania lodged legal action seeking $6,200 damages from Ms Beltran over her disruptions to native forest logging. Her angel protest had been blocking a road, and police also wanted compensation.Tasmanian government authorities taking legal action against an angel. It was an amazing story."
"Native forest logging continues in most regions, and the Tasmanian government has introduced harsher penalties for protest activity that disrupts public roads and stops businesses from making money."
"A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."
Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History," 1940https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus_Novus#cite_note-2
#LoggingIndustry #Australia #WeldAngel #photography #AngelusNovus #protests #action #logging #NativeForests #StopLogging #progress #destruction #climate #catastrophe -
The case of logging and clear felling the proposed Great Koala National Park
On Consultation and consent 1/3Some Bellingen residents adjoining Tuckers Nob State Forest received letters informing them of proposed logging operations.
The Forestry Corporation of New South Wales is logging and planning to clear fell large parts of NSW forests promised to be the Great Koala National Park.
Residents adjoining these areas (Tuckers Nob State Forest, 026 & 027 ) received (short term) letters informing them of the proposed industrial logging operations.
Some of these residents neighbouring native state forests have been restoring the bush with public funds to halt the koala extinction. (North Coast Local Land Services, NSW) Individual homes are being told that they will be involuntarily affected for 2 – 5 years of clear felling, burning, smoke and spraying toxins. Koalas and other wildlife will have to flee their erased habitat.
The given consultation process addresses individual property owners, sets the agenda, frames the issue and dictates the channels of 'negotiations' to the stakeholders
>>Part 2
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111050544820463784
Part 3
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111050539959361792#nature #financialisation #forests #NativeForests #biodiversity #climate #Emergencies #Bellingen #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #biodiversity #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #consultation #trust #governance #SaveTuckersNob
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The case of logging and clear felling the proposed Great Koala National Park
On Consultation and consent 3/3Times have rapidly changed. The old school extractive ways were perceived as legitimate under colonial extractive regimes.
Today we are confronted with an urgency of interlocking global crises of the environment and democracy. Anthropocene defaunation and an increasingly uninhabitable climate exposes human well-being under increasing threat.
'Business as usual' is no longer tenable. A new set of circumstances demands a rapid transition and consensual modes of action. Trust and legitimacy can be generated by genuine participatory deliberation of all 'stakeholders' and societal institutions.
People increasingly claim ownership of their planet and question the legality of the commodification and financialization of their only home.
Consultation and cooperation in a democratic civil society must consult all 'stakeholders' in public (digital or f2f) for a consensual outcome. The operating party has to face the affected community in person in public meetings. Stewards of biodiversity and the climate have to be present 'at the table'.
Discussions and negotiations should be public, transparent and take all aspects (externalities) into account.Stop deforestation and clearfelling in a climate emergency
Stop eradicating ecosystems in a biodiversity crisis
Stop the denial of reality
Stop logging in a l l of the proposed Great Koala National Park nowThere is no consent
#nature #financialisation #NativeForests #biodiversity #climate #Emergencies #Bellingen #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #biodiversity #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #consultation #trust #governance #SaveTuckersNob
Richards, Carol and Lyons, Kristen (2016). The new corporate enclosures: plantation forestry, carbon markets and the limits of financialised solutions to the climate crisis. Land Use Policy 56 209-216.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.05.013
https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:398969