#loggingindustry — Public Fediverse posts

'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

Native forests, roads and fires
The last remaining roadless intact old-growth forests in America
Trump administration to rescind rule protecting old-growth forests

"Almost 45m acres of national forests could be potentially opened to road construction, drilling and logging."

“...The roadless rule has always allowed for targeted actions to reduce hazardous fuels. What it does not allow is using wildfire as an excuse to open some of America’s most intact public forests to industrial exploitation and new road construction.The administration’s attempt to blame the roadless rule for worsening wildfire risk ignores both the facts and the rule itself. Roads generally lead to more ignitions and result in more wildfires – not fewer."

“Once you start bulldozing roads for commercial logging and industrial development, there’s no getting them back.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/18/trump-administration-growth-forests
#NativeForests #biodiversity #conservation #UnsustainableLogging #LoggingIndustry #PublicForests #IndustrialExploitation #extractivism #roads #roadless #FossilFuels #bushfires #NSWLogging

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

From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson

"When Prometheus, according to the myth, brought fire to earth, another crucial input was added. Fire has been used to cook food and harden tools for hundreds of thousands of years. In this sense, it can be said that all history implies the history of the uses of fire."

"But where trees could only be burnt once, the weights of the factors labour and fire shifted with the discovery of underground deposits of coal and oil. Modern humanity, according to Peter Sloterdijk, can be considered a collective of arsonists who set fires to the underground forests and moors. If Prometheus were to return to Earth today, he might regret his gift; after all, what looms is nothing less than Ekpyrosis, the demise of the world in fire. And only a new, energetic pacifism can prevent this catastrophe." >>
Peter Sloterdijk, Prometheus’s Remorse >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/peter-sloterdijk-prometheus-s-remorse-fr-9783518029855
#fires #bushfires #FossilFuels #coal #arson #LoggingIndustry #extractivism #climate #book #ClimateFiasco #Prometheus #NativeForests

"Timothy Neale’s How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent
critiques the colonial logics of control deployed to manage unruly environments and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship."

"Each year, Australia faces increasingly unprecedented wildfires, marked both by their scale and by the intense public disagreements about their political, cultural, and ecological causes. How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent is a critical and ethnographic exploration of wildfire management in Australia and the technoscientific systems of control that shape its current and future possibilities. Timothy Neale observes how two seemingly opposing forces—an entrenched sense of crisis and widespread normalization—combine to form an apparatus of institutional fire management that increasingly centers technical control and militarization. While sympathetic to the double binds many fire management professionals find themselves in, Neale ties contemporary wildfire problems to ongoing colonization and Indigenous dispossession, exploring Indigenous-led land management and cultural burning as a practical assertion of sovereignty. Through dialogue and collaboration with professional fire managers and Indigenous environmental stewards, Neale calls for a collective movement beyond control thinking by fostering new alliances and modes of coping with, rather than commanding, our flammable world." >>
https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-control-fire-on-a-burning-continent

Introduction >>
https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c2-002a-a423-84e111d5b498/8a052eb4-c8e4-4655-aab9-0a8efa3514cd/978-1-4780-3879-5_601.pdf
#fires #bushfires #FossilFuels #LoggingIndustry #extractivism #climate #book #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSociety #Australia #europeancolonisation #control #ClimateFiasco #HeatRecords

“Corporate interest is trumping community interest."

An "ad showed a picture of a logged area of forest with the words:

“The majority of Australians want an end to native forest logging.”

"Adelaide airport pulls ads from conservation groups but keeps gas and mining ads during ALP conference.' " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/24/adelaide-airport-cancels-environment-ads-keeps-gas-mining-advertisements
#conservation #CorporateInterests #FossilFuels #Biodiversity #NativeForests #loggingIndustry #Ads

“Runaway” land-clearing in NSW

"Almost 90 football fields of woody habitat were bulldozed e v e r y d a y in NSW – despite pledges to rein it in."

“Given there’s been no policy change since the government were elected in 2023 it’s no surprise to see that land clearing hasn’t been fixed."

“Every hectare of trees bulldozed means fewer homes for wildlife and more carbon pollution in the atmosphere." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/21/nsw-land-clearing-increase-report
#biodiversity #climate #harm #LandClearing #NSW #LoggingIndustry #crime #destruction #extractivism #regulation #wildlife #ScorchedEarth

"Streeton decried the logging of old-growth forests:

‘With our settlement we have upset the natural order of things, and the result is fire, wind and desolation … [We] have no appreciation of the beauty and use of trees, no sense of our responsibility … in preserving the forests for future generations.’ "

Arthur Streeton, ‘Ruin in the Range. The penalty of Occupation’, Illustration >>
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/jul/08/gum-tree-in-art
#Oldgrowth #forests #loggingIndustry #logging #gumart #eucalypts #flora #art

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

The native forest logging industry in Australia

Victoria claims to have stopped native logging. So why is it importing Tasmanian forests?

"No matter how much public money, suggestions for change and reform or recommendations for value-adding, the industry simply cannot survive without massive subsidies and handouts from government. It has been like this for decades."

"The taxpayer should not be expected to keep propping an industry that loses so much money. It is time to terminate contracts, cease handouts, and fully close the native forest logging industry in Australia. Instead, we should transition to a well managed plantation-only forestry sector – as New Zealand did in 2002." >>
https://theconversation.com/victoria-claims-to-have-stopped-native-logging-so-why-is-it-importing-tasmanian-forests-285789
#LoggingIndustry #Australia #Biodiversity #wildlife #LoggingImpacts #ValueAdded #FinancialLiabilities #environment #destruction #NSWLogging #extractivism

The National Parks Association of NSW is calling for

a Great Southern Forest National Park

stretching from the Illawarra to the Victorian border.

"Inspired by Great Koala National Park - The ambitious proposal was spurred forward by the announcement of the Great Koala National Park (GKNP) on the north coast by the state government in September last year."

"The launch of the proposal will be held today, with the proposal to be put to the NSW government." >>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-19/great-southern-forest-national-park-proposal/106784904
#biodiversity #wildlife #NPs #NSW #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #GKNP #climate #CarbonCredit #FossilFuels

Is pesticide spray on food leading to movement disorders?
Precautionary principle - ban paraquat

"Paraquat and the related herbicide diquat are fast-acting weedkillers that farming groups say are essential for controlling resistant weeds."

"Multiple epidemiological studies from different groups of scientists have shown that people exposed to paraquat have around a three times greater risk [of developing Parkinson's disease]."

'The chemicals have been under review by the APVMA since 1997 and they are banned in the EU, the UK and China due to their toxicity.'

"There are now multiple epidemiological studies or real-world exposure studies that have suggested that paraquat increases the risk of Parkinson's disease by around threefold...Like Australia, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to allow restricted use of the pesticide despite ongoing health concerns." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-08/neurologists-not-consulted-in-paraquat-weed-killer-review/106758882

Visualising the “blanket of agricultural toxins” from space
This Yellow Glyphosate Map Reveals Where Farmers in the Netherlands Spray the Controversial Herbicide >>
https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/this-yellow-glyphosate-map-reveals-where-farmers-in-the-netherlands-spray-the-controversial-herbicide/
#food #pesticides #glyphosate #Roundup #paraquat #weedkillers #SprayDrift #volatilisation #neurotoxicity #MovementDisorders #toxins #harm #farm #workers #residents #councils #LoggingIndustry #science #APVMA #regulation #Australia #SoilDegradation #water

Woodchippping Australia's native forests to make cement?

* Concerns native forests could be part of Cement Australia's 'sustainable' fuel option as it moves away from #coal >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-01/cement-australia-railton-kiln-move-from-coal-to-alternative-fuel/106731932

* Environmental impact of concrete >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_concrete
#climate #NativeForests #Biodiversity #LoggingIndustry #cement #concrete #energy #pollution #PaveParadise

Imagine roadless nature!
Rescinding The Roadless Rule

Millions of acres of national forests are set to open up for more logging

"...The U.S. Congress will act soon on a proposal to repeal the Roadless Rule, which was enacted in 2001 and safeguards some 58 million acres of public land in 39 states from new road development." >>
https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/general/congress-to-consider-roadless-rule-rescission

"Nearly a year ago, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced plans to repeal the long-contested 2001 Roadless Rule, which bars road construction on nearly 45 million acres of national forest land...The administration and timber trade groups argue roads provide access for wildfire suppression and forest management work aimed at reducing fire risk." >>
https://lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/environment/2026/05/28/public-rollout-of-roadless-rule-repeal-delayed/

"The Roadless Rule also protects taxpayers from shouldering the high costs of building and maintaining roads in the Forest Service system. Rescinding it would expose taxpayers to billions in new liabilities from subsidized roads, money-losing timber sales, increased wildfire risks, and harm to our forest health." >>
https://www.taxpayer.net/energy-natural-resources/house-committee-considers-bill-to-repeal-roadless-rule/
#biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #roads #RoadConstruction #harm #destruction #logging #LoggingIndustry #extractivism #trends #AnglosSphere #forestry #RoadlessRule #conservation

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-Residents

How NSW Forestry converts native forest to plantations , Dr Tim Cadman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wY9HzWwEvs

Unfortunately 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

Oh no, not the bison again

The Trump Administration’s Latest Target: This Woolly American Icon >
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-administration-doug-burgum-interior-american-bison-buffalo-ban-blm-grazing/

The Forest Service “Reorganizes” Under Trump
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-forest-service-a-force-across-rural-america-reorganizes-under-trump

Image: Photograph from 1892 of a pile of American bison skulls in Detroit (MI) waiting to be ground for fertilizer or charcoal. Wikipedia

#biodiversity #conservation #bison #wildlife #LandManagement #CattleGrazing #forests #LoggingIndustry #Pastoralism #extraction #nature #SoonHereToo #SettlerSociety #meat

Study finds Tasmanian native forest logging increases potential for more severe bushfires

"Logging worsens bushfires because regrowth eucalyptus trees are highly flammable in comparison to mature trees, which act as "green fire breaks...A fire expert says mature forests can "act as a buffer" to slow bushfires, whereas regrowth eucalypts are more flammable."

"The study has found around a fifth of Tasmanian tall wet forest is regrowth under 40 years old, largely a result of intensive logging and recent fires."

"Professor Bowman said this raised concerns around community safety and the sustainability of the state's timber industry."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-10/bushfire-risk-worsened-by-regrowth-after-logging-study-finds/106546528

Landscape-scale experimental proof that tall wet Eucalyptus regrowth burns more severely than mature forest >>
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ae4d62
#bushfires #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #FCNSW #risks #harm #forests #biodiversity #CommunitySafety #Bellingenshire #RegrowthHazard

Court makes landmark decision after illegal logging in NSW state forest
"Trees were illegally felled in Wild Cattle Creek State Forest, north of Dorrigo." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-01/wild-cattle-creek-state-forest-illegal-logging-court-decision/106514766
#loggingIndustry #FCNSW #harm #crime #Coffsharbour #Dorrigo #NSW #biodiversity #Gumbaynggirr #FirstNationsPeoples

Smoulderscape

Still suffocating in smoke pollution
from the 'agricultural activity' of
post-harvest burning by the cellulose 'plantations'
of the NSW government's Forestry Corporation.

Déjà vu
* " “Rome Plows,” massive bulldozers with an armor-fortified cutting blade, could clear 1,000 acres a day. Enormous concussive bombs, known as “daisy cutters”, flattened forests and set off shock waves killing everything within a 3,000-foot (900-meter) radius, down to earthworms in the soil. " >>
https://theconversation.com/50-years-later-vietnams-environment-still-bears-the-scars-of-war-and-signals-a-dark-future-for-gaza-and-ukraine-254971

* Ecocide and the history of herbicidal warfare in the Vietnam War >>
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/vietnam-war-1962-1975/events/aftermath/agent-orange

#Pollution #Smoke #pollution #HealthHazards #FCNSW #forestry #harm #Bellingenshire #Gleniffer #BellingenLogging #NSW #COPD #AirQuality #breathing #soot #PineCreekStateForest #TuckersNobSF #PostHarvestBurning #agriculture #PileBurning #NSW #EPA #AirQuality #CleanAir #SacrificeZone #extractivism #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities #governance #care #StructuralViolence

Suffocating in smoke pollution
from the 'agricultural activity' of
post-harvest pile burning by the cellulose 'plantations'
of the NSW government's Forestry Corporation.

"You can kill a person with post-harvest burning just as well as with an axe”.
(Bertolt Brech, slightly altered)

"Structural violence
is a form of violence wherein some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs or rights."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence

When residents express their concerns about the prolonged toxic pollution to the relevant state institutions, the response is along the lines of 'close up your house, stay indoors or move away and shut up.'

Toxic smoke pollution maximising harm >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116146034632404631

(The original quote: "You can kill a person with an apartment just as well as with an axe”. Heinrich Zille/ B. Brecht)

#Pollution #Smoke #HealthHazards #FCNSW #forestry #harm #Bellingenshire #Gleniffer #NSW #COPD #AirQuality #breathing #soot #PineCreekStateForest #TuckersNobSF #PostHarvestBurning #agriculture #PileBurning #NSW #EPA #AirQuality #CleanAir #SacrificeZone #extractivism #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities #governance #care #StructuralViolence

Forestry - The production of toxic pollution to get a few woodchips out of complex biodiversity

Before the leftovers of the cellulose factory (forest 'plantations') in this area are incinerated, a copious cocktail of pesticides is applied.

#pesticides #air #SprayDrift #water #soil #health #crucial #starane #AssociatePulse #PileBurning #biodiversity #wildlife #FCNSW #TuckersNobSF #Bellingenshire #BellingenLogging ##Gleniffer #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities

Toxic smoke pollution maximising harm

The government's Forestry Corporation of NSW is still polluting the Bellingen, Gleniffer and Repton area with toxic smoke. Wet piles and the green timber piles are smouldering. After a cocktail of pesticides was applied, the wet piles with green timber were set alight and are left smouldering for days, maximising the toxic smoke pollution over a wide area.

These negative externalities occur when the consumption or production of a commodity (cellulose) causes a harmful effect to a third party.

It appears that the Forestry Corporation and EPA evade or pass responsibility and the many concerned residents ring 000 and overburden the small Gleniffer Bushfire Brigade now...

Fire-induced health impacts by the Forestry Corporation of NSW Pt 1 >
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116134685710504402
Fire-induced health impacts by the Forestry Corporation of NSW Pt 2 >
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116134917857123855

#Pollution #Smoke #HealthHazards #FCNSW #forestry #harm #Bellingenshire #Gleniffer #NSW #COPD #AirQuality #breathing #PineCreekStateForest #TuckersNobSF #NSW #EPA #AirQuality #SacrificeZone #extractivism #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities #governance #care

Image: Tuckers Nob SF smouldering after pesticide applications

Fire-induced health impacts by the Forestry Corporation of NSW Pt 2

Negative externalities occur when the consumption or production of a commodity causes a harmful effect to a third party.

Bushfire smoke: There is no safe level of exposure. >
https://theconversation.com/how-to-protect-yourself-from-bushfire-smoke-272065

Hundreds died from the effects of smoke inhalation caused by Australia’s 2019-2020 black summer bushfires and many more are likely to have long-term health issues." >
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/22/smoke-pollution-from-wildfires-may-be-killing-an-extra-12000-people-a-year-new-research-suggests

"Breathing polluted air may do more than harm your lungs — it could also increase your risk of Alzheimer’s disease." >
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260220010836.htm

Fire-induced health impacts by the Forestry Corporation of NSW Pt 1 >
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116134685710504402

#Pollution #Smoke #HealthHazards #FCNSW #forestry #harm #TheGreatkoalaNationalPark #PineCreekStateForest #TuckersNobSF #Bellingenshire #Gleniffer #NSW #EPA #COPD #AirQuality #SacrificeZone #extractivism #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities #governance

Image: Forestry Corporation signage: Smoke Hazard, Roses Rd., Gleniffer

A yearning for the idyllic forest scene and cellulose factories

When they want to ‘get away from it all’ and ‘go for a drive’ through nature, the idyllic forest scene, they are in denial that the romantic craving for the bush turns out to be industrial plantations.

“Nature ... is a planned product of the forestry industry, a purely wisely placed storehouse for cellulose production, which is readily apparent.”
- The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil, 1930

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualities
#forests #forestryCorporation #forestry #CelluloseFactories #LoggingIndustry #landscapes #TheBush #plantations #monoculture #RawMaterials #extractivism #biodiversity #nature #book #literature

Large-scale mechanical thinning of biodiversity
Forests as machine-accessible landscapes

""Large-scale mechanical thinning operations are essentially a waste of money. At worst, they degrade forests, making them more flammable, eroding habitat, compromising water security and compacting soils."
>>
https://theconversation.com/victorias-mountain-ash-forests-naturally-thin-their-trees-so-why-do-it-with-machines-268201
#loggingImpacts #NSWLogging #thinning #Biodiversity #wildlife #machines #FossilFuel #climate #nativeforests #destruction #loggingIndustry #extractivism

Australia has new laws to protect nature. Do they signal an end to native forest logging?

"There is a straightforward way to avoid the ecological, administrative, and financial problems created by native forest logging – stop it altogether. The evidence shows ending native forest logging would deliver significant benefits for biodiversity, forest ecosystems, and reduce fire risks."
>>
https://theconversation.com/australia-has-new-laws-to-protect-nature-do-they-signal-an-end-to-native-forest-logging-271203
#NativeForests #LoggingImpacts #BAU #EPBCact #Biodiversity #conservation #governance #PoliticsOfUnsustainability #harm #thinning #LoggingIndustry #bushfires #risks

An intact Great Koala National Park reduces fire risks

Some mainstream media, politicians and the logging industry see Australian flora and fauna as one big ' firebomb' that needs logging urgently.

"...A logged forest is at much greater risk of burning at higher severity than intact forests that have not been logged. Logged forests are at significantly greater risk of high-severity wildfire than intact (unlogged) forests." David Lindenmayer, Ecologist
>> (paywall)
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-great-national-koala-park-is-not-a-firebomb-it-s-the-opposite-20251113-p5nf1u.html
#BushFires #deforestation #landclearing #biodiversity #ThegreatKoalaNationalPark #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #fires #VestedInterests #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #BellingenShire #risks

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."
>>
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')

Deforestation and no regeneration

"If you go down to the forests today, you’re in for a big surprise (mass deforestation) .
The forest has failed to regenerate after being logged. More and more logged areas no longer support trees where they once did."

"Forests that have not regenerated after logging represent a clear form of deforestation. Deforestation is a major global issue driving both escalating climate change and biodiversity loss. This is why Australia signed international agreements to both halt deforestation and to prevent biodiversity loss. And yet, this problem is evident in our own backyard."
>>
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/if-you-go-down-to-the-forests-today-youre-in-for-a-big-surprise-mass-deforestation/

Deforestation harms profits

"Global investors managing over $3 trillion in assets called on governments on Monday to stop and reverse deforestation and ecosystem degradation by 2030, in a statement signed ahead of a U.N. climate conference. As investors, we are increasingly concerned about the material financial risks that tropical deforestation and nature loss pose to our portfolios. Deforestation undermines the natural systems that global markets rely on - from climate regulation to food and water security."
>>
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/investors-managing-3-trillion-assets-urge-countries-stop-deforestation-2025-10-20/
#biodiversity #deforestation #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #loggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #climate #NativeForests #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #degradation #ClimateBreakdown #Australia #governance #EcosystemDegradation #extractivism

Lessons from another settler society about current fire practices, land management and logging practices: With more good fire comes less feral fire.

"To understand modern fire policy in California requires an analysis of California’s settler attitude toward the more-than-human world. This attitude relies heavily on the invented concepts embedded in the words nature and wilderness."

“The white man sure ruined this country, it’s turned back to wilderness.”
Sierra Miwok elder James Rust, quoted by M. Kat Anderson

Excerpts of The State of Fire: Why California Burns by Obi Kaufmann. Heyday Books, in Los Angeles Review of Books September 15, 2024
>>
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-then-is-natural/
#bushfires #CulturalBurning #FossilFuels #MegaFires #gigafire #arson #ClimateBreakdown #Cryosphere #droughts #smoke #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #FCNSW #harm #WUI #sprawl #cars #extractivism #denial #IndigenousPeoples #ecosystems #biodiversity #SettlerSociety #mindset #BelloBook

Habitat and water stations for koalas

"At the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital in New South Wales, about 200 koalas pass through the facility every year. That’s down from around 300 in previous years. “There are just fewer koalas now,” says Cheyne Flanagan, clinical director at the hospital.""

In Bellingen you fall over dog bowls full of water everywhere, but where are the maintained water stations for koalas?
>>
https://therevelator.org/koalas-decline-threats-solutions/
#koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #sprawl #cars #roads #dogs #pets #LoggingIndustry #ClimateBreakdown #ExtremeHeatwaves

Still logging Tuckers Nob, also known as the proposed Great Koala National Park

Dr. Tim Cadman is documenting how rainforest trees are cleared and original forest remnant are damaged by the state-owned Forestry Corporation of NSW. Week 11 of industrial logging within Tuckers Nob compartments 26-27 turning remnant vegetation into timber and electricity.
>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2djTDFsYjY

Surviving arboreal animals flee across busy roads and birds have gone silent. Industrial machinery leave huge puddles behind that supply the whole of Bellingen with Japanese encephalitis virus, Murray Valley encephalitis and Ross River virus. Gain for some, harm for others.

Mosquito borne diseases move in behind the loggers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/30/environment.climatechange
Deforestation and vector-borne disease: Forest conversion favors important mosquito vectors of human pathogens
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8290921/

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Albanese government fails to monitor deforestation, leaving it to citizen scientists to uncover potentially illegal clearing

"The work of citizen scientists has laid bare the staggering lack of federal government monitoring of deforestation in Australia, after six instances of potentially unlawful land clearing were uncovered in the last four months through a volunteer monitoring program."

"Since December 2023, the Wilderness Society and Queensland Conservation Council have referred six instances of potentially illegal deforestation to the federal government for assessment."

“The Albanese government must uphold their commitment of no new extinctions and protect iconic species like the koala. The only way to achieve this is to stop the bulldozers in their tracks by tough enforcement of our national environment law.”

https://www.wilderness.org.au/news-events/albanese-government-fails-to-monitor-deforestation-leaving-it-to-citizen-scientists-to-uncover-potentially-illegal-clearing
#LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #CitizenScience #crime #NSWForestry #deforestation #volunteers #governance #enforcement #conservation #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #biodiversity #climate

Forestry contractors convicted of 2020 assaults in Wild Cattle Creek State Forest

"TWO forestry contractors have been found guilty of assaulting two men in Wild Cattle Creek State Forest on 25 June 2020 by Coffs Harbour Local Court. Mark Graham and Andre Johnston, who were assaulted on a public road in the State Forest north of Dorrigo, have been seeking justice for more than three years."
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https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/forestry-contractors-convicted-of-2020-assaults-in-wild-cattle-creek-state-forest
#violence #NSWForestry #LoggingIndustry #loggers #NativeForest #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency #environmentalists

The Forestry industry and the communities it supports cannot afford another fire.
Forestry industry still feeling effects of Black Summer looks at how to best protect plantations. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-12-30/forestry-communities-cant-afford-another-fire-after-black-summer/103272090
#ForestryCorporation #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #plantations #FossilFuel #bushfires #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis

Saving koalas from extinction on the Mid North Coast of NSW

"The Bellingen Environment Centre (BEC) has called on the Government to suspend all logging within the proposed Great Koala National Park as consultation for the Koala Park begins in Coffs Harbour."

“If logging is allowed to continue within the boundaries of the proposed Great Koala National Park, koalas and a large number of other critically threatened and endangered animals will suffer.”

“The industrial logging that we are seeing at Pine Creek is an environmental and economic disaster and not only a major threat to koalas, but it’s also a serious waste of taxpayers’ dollars and undermines the $190 million NSW Government Koala Strategy.”

“Labor needs to listen to health and environmental scientists, not a single industry, and place a moratorium on logging immediately."
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https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/conservationists-accuse-labor-of-dragging-their-feet-on-great-koala-national-park
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Logging and koalas do not mix
Spoiler: End native forest logging altogether, seek World Heritage protection for these forests.

"Koalas cannot read maps, and do not understand human zoning. If their habitat in plantations is cleared, they die – just as we’ve seen in Victoria, where deaths of koalas in blue gum plantations have made national news."

"For a koala-protecting National Park to actually protect koalas, it must be based on the identification and reservation of high value habitat – such as hardwood plantations. If we leave all plantations out, some of the best habitat in the park will continue to be logged. Without plantations, the park will be filled with holes, severing critical corridors and hampering the movement of koalas."

What should we do?
"We have to restore the areas lost to logging and the Black Summer bushfires and flag more forested areas for inclusion – especially unburnt habitat. And the government has to end logging within the proposed park area. If we want a viable alternative, the government should begin new plantations outside the park area and buy out existing logging contracts inside the park. Logging and koalas do not mix."

"We should give up on the idea of protecting koala “hubs”. Instead, we should prioritise the protection of koala populations unaffected by fire and in untouched forest areas wherever they are, whether inside or outside of these hubs.
Every bit of habitat on public land should be ruled in, as this is what counts, not zoning. Local communities – not just the forest industry and environment groups – need to be included in negotiations. The government should also consider community efforts to seek World Heritage protection for these forests."
Tim Cadman, Danielle Clode
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https://theconversation.com/a-home-among-the-gum-trees-will-the-great-koala-national-park-actually-save-koalas-217276
#conservation #logging #Koalas #LoggingIndustry #NSWForestry #extinction #SaveTuckersNob ##restoration WorldHeritage #Biodiversity #ClimateEmergency #EndNativeForestLogging

EPA blasts NSW Forestry’s incompetent greater glider population survey

"The NSW Forestry Corporation failed to properly search a forest for endangered greater gliders before logging their den trees, a watchdog has alleged."

"The Environment Protection Authority has released successive stop-work orders issued to the state-owned corporation over its conduct in the Tallaganda State Forest, east of Canberra. They were enforced after a dead glider was found in the forest in late August, about 50 metres from where trees were being felled."

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/2023/11/10/greater-glider-survey-balsted
#NSWForestry #NativeForests #TallagandaSF #LoggingIndustry #biodiversity #gliders #surveys

Deforestation has big impact on regional temperatures

"...Deforestation causes warming at distances up to 60 miles away. The greater the forest clearance, the higher the temperature. This is in addition to the wider climate impact of global heating."

“We show that regional forest loss increases warming by more than a factor of four with serious consequences for the remaining Amazon forest and the people living there.”

“More and more, we are demonstrating the big benefits the forests bring to surrounding regions. For farmers, they bring cooler air and more rainfall. Until now, studies on the impact of forest clearance on heat have concentrated on local effects with a clear correlation between loss of tree cover and higher temperatures in the area where the trees were cut down. The new research went further by looking at whether there is also a warming effect over a wider area." >
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/30/deforestation-has-big-impact-on-regional-temperatures-study-of-brazilian-amazon-shows

Amazon deforestation causes strong regional warming
"Tropical deforestation warms the climate with negative impacts on people living nearby." >
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2309123120
#drought #Bushfires #risks #NativeForests #evapotranspiration #deforestation #heatwaves #ExtremeHeatwaves #LoggingIndustry #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #StopLogging #SaveTuckersNob