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  1. 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." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-06-08/neu

    Visualising the “blanket of agricultural toxins” from space
    This Yellow Glyphosate Map Reveals Where Farmers in the Netherlands Spray the Controversial Herbicide >>
    europeanpressprize.com/article
    #food #pesticides #glyphosate #Roundup #paraquat #weedkillers #SprayDrift #volatilisation #neurotoxicity #MovementDisorders #toxins #harm #farm #workers #residents #councils #LoggingIndustry #science #APVMA #regulation #Australia #SoilDegradation #water

  2. 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 >>
    surveymonkey.com/r/TuckersRemn

    How NSW Forestry converts native forest to plantations , Dr Tim Cadman
    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

  3. 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."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-11-16/gre
    #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')

  4. The Tasmanian government intends to open up just under 10,000 hectares of previously protected native forest for logging, new documents released under right-to-information laws show. >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/tas
    #LoggingIndustry #LoggingIndustry #AboriginalHeritage #Heritage #NativeForests

  5. Sydney's mass tree vandalism
    “This is happening all over the country, all of the time."

    "A disjunct between weak punishment and the crime, a colonial-settler impulse to control native bush, an overriding sense, perhaps, that public property has less value than private – impels them, regardless, to vandalise majestic trees."

    "The novelist and celebrated nature writer James Bradley says the “hatred of trees” is a settler-colonial legacy of the desire to impose order on the natural landscape and a symptom of increased alienation from nature."

    “Trees have helped shape and sustain human cultures for hundreds of thousands of years. Many Indigenous cultures recognise this with systems of reciprocity that connect them to trees, within which trees are not just living beings, but actually relatives or kin. That connection has been disrupted by the processes of extraction that have seen most of the world’s forests cleared, and the hostility to trees you hear when people complain about their messiness, or them blocking their view."

    “The more science learns about trees, the more we realise that even though they exist upon quite different timescales to humans, they are beings, with the ability to communicate and learn. And that they aren’t just good for the environment, they’re good for us, and just being around them makes us calmer, improves our mood, and makes us feel more connected to the world around us.”
    >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    James Bradley
    cityoftongues.com/about/
    #HarbourViews #PropertyValues #Sydney #views #LaneCove #CastleCove #crime #entitlement #SettlerSociety #legacy #BotanicalColonisation #LoggingIndustry #values #extractivism #reciprocity #NativeForests #biodiversity #wildlife #TheBush

  6. The Eucalyptus Plantations of the Plantationocene

    “Introducing monoculture stands of eucalyptus into other regions brings a new and dangerous flammability into ecosystems. Using exotic fire-prone trees for afforestation in tree-planting schemes under a heating and drying climate has the potential to literally backfire, releasing carbon while also risking local tragedy and ecological damage.”

    "From the Amazon rainforest to California, Madagascar to Spain, monoculture forests are being grown over huge areas, with eucalyptus among the most popular species. A growing number of tree-planting schemes are allocated to carbon offsetting projects and government contributions towards the Paris agreement – with many countries looking to plant increasing swathes of forest to meet their obligations. According on one estimate, eucalyptus plantations cover at least 22m hectares (54m acres) around the world."
    >>
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #eucalyptus #monocultures #Plantationocene #ForestryCorporation #LoggingIndustry #bushfires #offsets #climate #biodiversity

  7. Ruling leaves koala populations exposed but door opens to further legal action
    >>
    edo.org.au/2023/11/20/ruling-l

    North East Forest Alliance laments Land and Environment Court loss, says koalas will suffer
    "The Land and Environment Court has rejected an application to stop logging in two bushfire affected forests in north-east NSW."
    "This was our last official legal attempt to try and save the koalas. "They're going to take out most of their feed trees."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2023-11-20/nef

    #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #koalas #wildlife #Bushfires #law #lawfare #NSW #Braemar #MyrtleStateForests #NEFA #EDO #EPA #court #vidence #ForestryCorporation #NorthEastRegionalForestAgreement #ClimateEmergency #biodiversity

  8. Ruling leaves koala populations exposed but door opens to further legal action
    >>
    edo.org.au/2023/11/20/ruling-l

    North East Forest Alliance laments Land and Environment Court loss, says koalas will suffer
    "The Land and Environment Court has rejected an application to stop logging in two bushfire affected forests in north-east NSW."
    "This was our last official legal attempt to try and save the koalas. "They're going to take out most of their feed trees."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2023-11-20/nef

    #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #koalas #wildlife #Bushfires #law #lawfare #NSW #Braemar #MyrtleStateForests #NEFA #EDO #EPA #court #vidence #ForestryCorporation #NorthEastRegionalForestAgreement #ClimateEmergency #biodiversity

  9. Ruling leaves koala populations exposed but door opens to further legal action
    >>
    edo.org.au/2023/11/20/ruling-l

    North East Forest Alliance laments Land and Environment Court loss, says koalas will suffer
    "The Land and Environment Court has rejected an application to stop logging in two bushfire affected forests in north-east NSW."
    "This was our last official legal attempt to try and save the koalas. "They're going to take out most of their feed trees."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2023-11-20/nef

    #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #koalas #wildlife #Bushfires #law #lawfare #NSW #Braemar #MyrtleStateForests #NEFA #EDO #EPA #court #vidence #ForestryCorporation #NorthEastRegionalForestAgreement #ClimateEmergency #biodiversity

  10. Ruling leaves koala populations exposed but door opens to further legal action
    >>
    edo.org.au/2023/11/20/ruling-l

    North East Forest Alliance laments Land and Environment Court loss, says koalas will suffer
    "The Land and Environment Court has rejected an application to stop logging in two bushfire affected forests in north-east NSW."
    "This was our last official legal attempt to try and save the koalas. "They're going to take out most of their feed trees."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2023-11-20/nef

    #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #koalas #wildlife #Bushfires #law #lawfare #NSW #Braemar #MyrtleStateForests #NEFA #EDO #EPA #court #vidence #ForestryCorporation #NorthEastRegionalForestAgreement #ClimateEmergency #biodiversity

  11. Ruling leaves koala populations exposed but door opens to further legal action
    >>
    edo.org.au/2023/11/20/ruling-l

    North East Forest Alliance laments Land and Environment Court loss, says koalas will suffer
    "The Land and Environment Court has rejected an application to stop logging in two bushfire affected forests in north-east NSW."
    "This was our last official legal attempt to try and save the koalas. "They're going to take out most of their feed trees."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2023-11-20/nef

    #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #koalas #wildlife #Bushfires #law #lawfare #NSW #Braemar #MyrtleStateForests #NEFA #EDO #EPA #court #vidence #ForestryCorporation #NorthEastRegionalForestAgreement #ClimateEmergency #biodiversity