#loggingindustry — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #loggingindustry, aggregated by home.social.
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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/106758882Visualising 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 -
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 -
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
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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_violenceWhen 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
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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
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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
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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-272065Hundreds 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.htmFire-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
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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."
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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."
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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 -
NSW forestry agency should be shut down for repeatedly breaking law, critics argue
"Professor David Heilpern, a former court magistrate, claims the NSW Forestry Corporation is no longer fit for purpose and should be disbanded. A former magistrate and one of Australia’s most experienced scientists have launched an extraordinary attack on the New South Wales government’s logging agency, describing it as effectively a “criminal organisation” that should be shut down after a string of court convictions."
"The corporation has been convicted of more than a dozen environmental offences, including a judgment in the land and environment court last year that found the agency was likely to reoffend and had poor prospects of rehabilitation.They get caught, investigated, prosecuted, a criminal conviction, a fine – which the public pays – and they carry on and do it all again."
“There is just no integrity, accountability or justice in this model of operation.”
“For the Forestry Corporation, breaking the law and harming the environment and wildlife has become like a game of charades played under the protection of the state."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/11/nsw-forestry-agency-called-criminal-organisation-by-critics
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #crime #harm #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #governance #accountability #extractivism -
Human-mediated extirpation of wildlife through logging
"Before industrial logging in south-west British Columbia, there were nearly 1,000 spotted owls in the old-growth forests. But they have vanished in recent decades, victims of habitat destruction. Activists have tried in vain to hold the government to account, alleging protected species laws have failed to prevent the extirpation of the owls."
"Efforts to revive the population have failed, with a pair of owls released from the breeding program dying within months. The lone female in the wild is also believed to have died."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/12/canada-owl-rats-valentines-dayWhat happened to the Northern Spotted Owl? >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_spotted_owl
#LoggingImpacts #harm #birds #biodiversity #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #Wildlife #habitat #destruction #degradation #extirpation #NSWLogging #SaveTuckersNob #koalas #BellingenLogging #SettlerSociety #governance #ecocide -
The government promised a koala national park. Then their loggers moved in
"Logging inside the Great Koala National Park assessment area is four times more intense when measured by area than in nearby state forests outside the park, and environmentalists say the targeted areas are wreaking maximal environmental damage...New analysis suggests the NSW government’s own logging arm is trashing the forest inside the proposed park." >>
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/the-government-promised-a-koala-national-park-then-the-loggers-moved-in-20241104-p5knro.html ($ wall)
#logging #MidNorthCoast #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NSW #biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #destruction #FCNSW #breaches #SaveTuckersNob #subsidies #bushfires #risks #crime #violence #ResourceFrontiers #offsets #ClimateEmergency #governance -
Koalas
"After European colonization in 1788, more species have become extinct in Australia than in any other country on Earth (Australian Government Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, 2022)."
In 2020, the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Koalas found that koalas will become extinct before 2050. Why?
Habitat grab, cars and dogs
"Koalas who had been attacked by a dog, fallen from a tree, and/or been hit by a motor vehicle were more likely to be euthanized or found deceased than released."
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Charalambous, R., Descovich, K. A., & Narayan, E. J. (2024). Identifying Trends in Admission and Release of Wild Koalas in Veterinary Clinics Throughout Queensland, Australia. Society & Animals (published online ahead of print 2024).
https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-bja10220
#koalas #Bellingen #Gleniffer #roads #dogs #pets #GlenifferRoad #RosesRoad #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #SettlerSociety #BiodiversityCrisis #Ecocide #ExtinctionCrisis #EPBCAct -
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 -
"Between 2000 and 2022, NSW logged approximately 435,000 ha of native forest and woodland, all of which overlapped with the distributions of at least one threatened forest-dependent taxon."
"While logging in NSW has degraded 435,000 ha of native forest across 143 threatened taxa distributions, logging is still legal under current legislation."
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https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.13185
#biodiversity #ShiftingBaselines #ThreatenedSpecies #NSWLogging #FCNSW #LoggingIndustry #deforestation #degradation #harm #fires #roads #SettlerSociety #BellingenLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #ExtinctionCrisis #EPBCAct #EUDR -
Forestry Corporation of NSW has ‘a pattern’ of illegally damaging the environment, scathing judgment finds
"A court has released a scathing judgment against the New South Wales’ state-owned forest agency, finding it had “a pattern” of illegally damaging the environment and had refused to accept the “true extent of the harm that it has caused”."
"The Land and Environment Court fined the Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) $360,000 for offences related to the logging of 53 eucalyptus trees in environmentally significant forest near Eden, in the state’s south, after the black summer bushfires."
"The court accepted an EPA submission that the agency had “a pattern of environmental offending, has not provided any compelling evidence of measures taken by it to prevent its reoffending, and does not accept the true extent of harm that it has caused by its offending...Justice Rachel Pepper agreed that any penalty imposed on the Forestry Corporation “must serve to deter it from future criminality”.
“The government is ultimately responsible for the Forestry Corporation, and have a duty to protect the people and environment of NSW from this rogue state-owned corporation."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/31/forestry-corporation-of-nsw-has-a-pattern-of-illegally-damaging-the-environment-scathing-judgment-finds
#harm #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #NSWlogging #FCNSW #StopLoggingKoalaHabitat #breaches #law #governance #criminality #SaveTuckersNob #BiodiversityCrisis #FCNSW #StopNativeForestLogging -
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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2djTDFsYjYSurviving 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/#SaveTuckersNob #BreachWatch #TuckersNob26 #LoggingIndustry #FCNSW #LoggingImpacts #ForestConversion #NSWForestry #BellingenLogging #RemnantVegetation #rainforest #MosquitoBorneDiseases #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #electricity #koalas #VectorBorneDiseases #BellingenShire
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Continued logging of NSW koala habitat is ‘a profound tragedy’, conservationist says
"Another campaigner says state environment minister ‘refuses to do anything’ ahead of koala protection summit in Sydney. Mark Graham, a community advocate, said: “These are extinction logging operations. This is a profound tragedy.”"
"The concerns come ahead of a state koala summit to be held in Sydney next Friday. The environment minister, Penny Sharpe, called the summit to allow councils and experts to give advice about what needs to happen to prevent the species’ extinction."
"Graham said if the government was serious about preventing the extinction of the koala, the simplest action it could take would be to immediately stop logging and protect all koala hubs and nationally important koala areas in state forests – both within and outside the boundaries of the proposed great koala national park."
"He said there had been active logging throughout the park, including at Sheas Nob, north-west of the Dorrigo Plateau, Kangaroo river and Wild Cattle creek."
"The NSW agriculture minister Tara Moriarty said timber harvesting would continue in areas of the proposed great koala national park that were not designated koala hubs “but only where operational plans have been approved under the tightest environmental protection rules in the country."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/18/great-koala-national-park-logging-habitats
#biodiversity #NSWLogging #climate #LoggingIndustry #governance #extinction #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersnob #BellingenLogging #KoalaSummit -
Bellingen without the forests?
https://bellingenarea.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-master-plan-for-bellingen-placemaking.html
#BellingenShire #Bellingen #MasterPlan #BellingenLogging #Biodiversity #Logging #LoggingIndustry #destruction #LoggingImpacts #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #Gleniffer #GumbaynggirrCountry #SettlerSociety #CarDependency -
End native forest logging in NSW!
"Native forest logging ended in Victoria on January 1. State-owned logging company VicForests will cease to exist from June 30 this year."
"VicForests' management of community forestry, including the harvesting of wind-thrown timber, ended on February 5, with the organisation citing the "risk of litigation" and "the cost it would burden the taxpayer with" as the reason for bringing its original June end date forward.
State-owned logging business VicForests, which has previously been found to have breached threatened species laws, will cease to exist from June 30 this year."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-13/state-owned-logging-company-vicforests-wind-up-date-revealed/103580736
#FCNSW #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #litigation #law #subsidies #ThreatenedSpecies #koalas #SaveTuckersnob #biodiversity #climate -
The habitat of native animals and plants is being destroyed in Tuckers Nob SF. The bare timber raced along the Pacific highway today.
List of animals made homeless:
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/bellingen
#FCNSW #biodiversity #ClimateEmergency #ExtremeHeat #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #SaveTuckersnob #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BellingenLogging #koalas