#savetuckersnob — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #savetuckersnob, aggregated by home.social.
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Why roads are so dangerous
Avoid the first cut into a forest..."The first road made into a wilderness area is often the most dangerous. Following the first cut, a host of changes often become unstoppable."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwwlxlMoVVQConserving Tropical Forests in a Rapidly Changing World, Bill Laurance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFrSpk--QmU
#LoggingImpacts #NativeForests #deforestation #fragmentation #biodiversity #wildlife #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #roads #climate -
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 -
'Plantation' logging is native forest logging in koala habitat
Tuckers Nob Compartment 017 >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwM15WrJpg
#LoggingImpacts #destruction #NSWLogging #FCNSW #koalas #biodiversity #rainforest #The #GreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob -
Logging machinery and other combustion machines are driving koalas out of their habitat at Bellingen/ Gleniffer's Tuckers Nob forests.
#biodiversity #dispersal #bellingen #gleniffer #GlenifferRoad #NSWLogging #cars #sprawl #FCNSW #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob -
Documentation of the systematic destruction of Tuckers Nob forests
"Presentation for Friends of Tuckers Nob on the history and significance of Tuckers Nob State Forest and why it must be included in the NSW Government's proposed 'Great' Koala National Park. Based on a recent preliminary report submitted to government, showing the original forest and koala sightings, with a list of moratorium areas (including Tuckers). All the most recent developments, bringing the viewer up to date. This is why we need a #GreaterKoalaPark, with no logging."
The video has a link to the report containing the results (maps) of the investigations by Dr Tim Cadman and local community-based citizen scientists:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKZvVjG_XvM
#ResourceFrontiers #extractivism #biodiversity #ecocide #koalas #NativeForests #rainforest #BellingenLogging #clearfelling #NSWLogging #Bellingen #community #trauma #harm #moratorium #FCNSW #plantation #conversion #annexation #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #bushfire #risk -
Logging the great koala national park
"Before the next election round lets make sure The Great Koala National Park is secured. Its the last chance for the survival of our Koala population on the Eastern Seaboard of Australia."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE7NQbRGZ2U
#biodiversity #FCNSW #NSWLogging #governance #harm #destruction #pinecreek #SaveTuckersNob #wildlife #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #LoggingImpacts -
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 -
Logging in forest earmarked for koala national park increasing under NSW Labor, analysis finds
“Far from protecting the great koala national park, they are accelerating its degradation.""Logging of native forest in the proposed great koala national park (GKNP) in northern New South Wales has intensified since the Minns government took office, according to new analysis by conservation advocates."
The report, which the state’s forestry corporation disputes, found 7,185 hectares (17,700 acres) were logged within the promised park in the 21 months since the March 2023 state election. Dailan Pugh, the president of the North East Forest Alliance, said this was about 8.4% of the area identified for potential logging and included habitat for endangered koalas and another 37 threatened species....They’re still logging areas they’ve identified as high density for koalas,” Pugh said."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/13/logging-in-forest-earmarked-for-koala-national-park-increasing-under-nsw-labor-analysis-finds
#TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #degradation #NSWLogging #FCNSW #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #koalas #gliders #biodiversity #governance #StopLoggingKoalaHabitat -
Drone locates 20 koalas in forest due to be logged next year
"A thermal drone imaging survey has been conducted over a plantation within the Great Koala National Park footprint. 20 koalas were detected over two nights at Tuckers Nob State Forest, which is due to be logged in the New Year."
The so called 'plantations' are more like native forests. Tuckers Nob forest must be included in the great koala national park. Video>>
https://www.nbnnews.com.au/2024/12/18/drone-locates-20-koalas-in-forest-due-to-be-logged-next-year/
#LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #koalas #SaveTuckersNob #Bellingen #Gleniffer #plantations #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #conservation #drones #RadioTelemetry #FCNSW #destruction -
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 -
Bellingen 2/2
Hyde and Church St.:
Bumper-to-bumper road trains speeding through drive through town. Horizontal native forests fly by on logging trucks. Amplified 'music' tries to overpower the fossil fuel soundscape. A non-place between Paramatta Rd. and Luna Park.
In Church St. (which really is just another car park) food consumers are being polluted by car fumes. Breastfeeding parents idle in their air-conditioned SUVs.Council updated the tidy garden beds along the road with new weeds. Indian mynas are rapidly replacing native birds.
The 'Koala shampoo for dogs' summed it all up.
#Bellingen #roads #FossilFuels #ClimateExtremes #BellingenLogging #LoggingImpacts #Bellingen #suburbia #trucks #pollution #koalas #birds #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity
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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 -
Save Tuckers Nob forests
Save the Bellingen koala habitat.
Save the biodiversity habitat of the promised Great Koala Park.
Save the habitable climate niche.
#StopNativeForestLogging #SaveTuckersNob #BellingenLogging #NSWlogging #FCNSW #ClimateEmergency #ExtremeHeat #BiodiversityCrisis #destruction #governance #SettlerSociety #extractivism -
Labor continues double-speak on forestry issues
"Amid talk of managing forestry and environmental conservation, Labor governments continue the destruction of forests across Australia."
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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/labor-continues-double-speak-on-forestry-issues,18770Forest conversion and timber certification in the public plantation estate of NSW: Implications at the landscape and policy levels, (Tim Cadman et al., 2024)
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107179
#NativeForests #deforestation #NSWLogging #regulation #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #FCNSW #degradation #RemnantVegetation #conversion #ecosystem #conservation #Biodiversity #GlasgowDeclaration #ecology #ClimateAction #Law #governance #legitimacy #EUDR #SupplyChains #Australia #reputation -
Unchecked tourism at Bellingen's Never Never River
Indigenous custodians embrace chance to curb tourism at 'trashed' swimming spot"Occasional closure part of Indigenous Protected Area plan for troubled Never Never River's Promised Lands. The spot has now been declared part of an 81,000-hectare Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in the Bellingen Valley."
"There have been concerns about pollution in the Never Never River at a popular swimming spot known as the Promised Lands, near the town of Bellingen...In January 2023, water quality at the river showed concerning levels of faecal matter, with human and dog excrement the suspected source."
"It was once regarded as something of a secret spot, but coverage on social media has seen it become an increasingly popular swimming site. But as the site is not recognised as a tourist area by Forestry Corporation NSW, which manages the Crown Land, there are no public toilets or rubbish bins, and minimal parking."
"Rather than it being a free-for-all, driving up and down from sacred places, we need to give it a rest sometimes during the year."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-10/never-never-river-bellingen-indigenous-protected-area/103993356
#PromisedLand #NeverNever #rivers #Bellingen #TheDrive #ExcessiveTourism #tourism #NSW #pollution #dogs #SaveTuckersNob #GumbaynggirrCountry #GoBeforeYouGo #swimming #toilets #MidNorthCoast #platypus -
Koala habitat on the Mid-North Coast of NSW logged
"Up to 19,000 hectares of forest in the proposed Great Koala National Park is at risk of destruction by Forestry Corporation NSW before April next year."
“It is untenable that so much has been destroyed, and will be destroyed in the coming year, before these areas have been assessed. ..The new analysis reveals Forestry Corporation is continuing its desperate attempt to take as much timber as possible before the park is protected."
“Leaving 95% of the proposed park vulnerable to logging is simply not good enough to ensure the survival of koalas in the wild."
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https://www.nature.org.au/loggers_attempting_to_make_park_unviable_as_koala_sanctuary"The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales has developed this interactive MAP to show past and planned logging in the proposed park that has been identified as home to one in five of the state’s koalas.">>
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=d3b1708ba5d041fa87ab1353413fb0bf
#TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #MidNorthCoast #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #FCNSW #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity #climate #destruction #Australia -
A 2020 NSW parliamentary inquiry found koalas would be extinct in the state by 2050 without urgent action.
"Governments continue to permit the clearing of koala habitat, including for native forest logging operations on the mid-north coast and in areas that have been promised for conservation in a proposed great koala national park."
“We’re in one of the most biodiverse, rich areas on this continent, but historical clearing has seriously degraded the area."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/03/koala-thief-leaves-claude-eastern-forest-nursery-lismore-nsw
#Koalas #LoggingImpacts #LandClearing #NSWForestry #MidNorthCoast #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #governance #biodiversity #extinction makers -
Climate and wildlife destroying logging burns are not specific to NSW logging sites.
"Right now, the Tasmanian Government is carrying out post-logging burns. These infernos damage the climate and environment, kill wildlife and harm human health. Forest Watch is exposing the destruction that Forestry Tasmania is hiding from you. Monitoring native forest logging and burning in Lutruwita / Tasmania."
https://forestwatch.org.au/
#EndNativeForestLogging #BanLoggingBurns #NSWForestry #NSWLogging #fires #smoke #biodiversity #ClimateBreakdown #SaveTuckersNob #pollution #LoggingBurns #wildlife -
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 -
Friends of Pine Creek
is "a group of citizens committed to protecting the natural and cultural values of Pine Creek State Forest on the mid north coast of NSW, Australia"They are mourning the destruction of koalas habitat and biodiversity at the hands of their government. They have a very informative web presence:
"The ‘Forest Bridge’ proposal seeks to permanently conserve a critical corridor of public State Forest as a wildlife corridor west of Coffs Harbour on the Mid North coast of NSW. It offers a unique opportunity to permanently protect and complete an east/west corridor of conserved land stretching from the coastline at Bongil Bongil National Park westward to Point Lookout within New England National Park and beyond. In 2021 both Bongil Bongil National Park and Bindarri National Park were listed as Assets of Intergenerational Significance by the Minister for Energy and Environment, warranting them special protection."
"The gap between these two National Parks is currently occupied by small sections of Pine Creek State Forest and Tuckers Knob State Forest both under constant threat of destruction through high intensity logging. Parts of this country have already been clear-felled and bulldozed for monocultural Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis) plantations. Blackbutt is not a primary koala food tree."
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https://friendsofpinecreek.com/the-forest-bridge/
https://www.facebook.com/friendsofpinecreek
#NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #FOPC #SaveTuckersnob #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #koalas #MidNorthCoast #BiodiversityCrisis #climate #activism #governance #EcologicalGrief -
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 -
Logging NSW, logging the Great Koala National Park
“Here in NSW we’ve got a situation where illegal activities and unethical activities and destruction of habitat with endangered species are carried out by the very organisation that is part of the government that’s supposed to be protecting it.”
"Last year the Herald reported that the corporation had ramped up logging operations within the boundaries of the proposed Great Koala National Park, which the state government has promised to create on the north coast."
“[The Forestry Corporation] knows this national park is coming, and they are deliberately ramping up operations within its boundaries to extract as much timber from it as possible,” NSW Nature Conservation Council chief executive Jacqui Mumford said at the time."
“Any reasonable citizen can see that it is a ludicrous proposition to say ‘we’re going to create this national park, but until we do, we’ll keep destroying the habitat and food supply of the very animals we are seeking to protect’.”
".. The corporation’s hardwood division – which extracts timber from forests rather than plantations – runs at a loss and exists only through subsidies, and does not enjoy the popular support of the taxpayers who are required to fund it.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/i-don-t-like-to-lose-well-connected-warrior-geoff-cousins-is-gearing-up-for-one-last-battle-20240307-p5faho.html
#NSWLogging #FCNSW #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersnob #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #destruction #BiodiversityCrisis #climate -
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 -
Tuckers Nob State forest incineration after logging. The image is from Gleniffer Road near a residential area.
Bellingen under toxic smoke from logging fires at 33 °C
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/112013566248072051#FCNSW #LoggingImpacts #pollution #GlenifferRoad #AirQuality #Climate #BiodiversityCrisis #koalas #BellingenShire #BellingenLogging #destruction #NativeForests #OneHealth #Gleniffer #SaveTuckersNob #NativeForestIncineration #fires
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The koala is an icon for Australia
Images of politicians and tourists seen cuddling the threatened marsupial are ubiquitous. The mascot, usually placed on a stump, has to pose and represent the 'brand' Australia.
Due to habitat destruction the animals are deprived of a living habitat and have to flee. The fragmented habitat they have to negotiate is crisscrossed with roads and dangerous canines.
The verge of the roads and the gutter is the koala's new designated home. The slow arboreal animal has to face speedy cars, trucks and pet dogs. The industrial destruction of biodiversity, native forest logging, has the largest kill-score. In one case the “koala massacre” killed 40 in one 'harvesting' operation.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/03/koala-massacre-animals-reported-starving-or-dead-after-plantation-loggingIn Victoria three rotting koalas were found recently beside a country road within a week.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/sad-reason-koalas-were-found-dumped-inside-cardboard-boxes-beside-country-road-061958594.htmlHere in Bellingen, where Tuckers Nob public forest is being industrially logged, all images cropping up are of disoriented koalas on daytime roads. There will be nothing left to cuddle soon.
Friends of Tuckers Nob have pictures of Roadside Koalas of the area near the logging sites.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/250189120465227/Desperate koala looking for a tree
https://www.tiktok.com/@candyandcalvin/video/7322989951233150216#koalas #FCNSW #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NativeForests #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #BellingenLogging #WildlifeCrimes #wildlife #cars #crashes #roads #RosesRoad #roadkill #biodiversity #KillingCorridor #Sydney #AppinRoad #SaveTuckersNob
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Stop logging native forests everywhere
On 19 February 2024, Bob Brown and two activists were arrested in the Styx Valley in lutruwita / Tasmania for defending World Heritage value forest from the loggers' chainsaws.
Watch this message from Bob at the site of the destruction.
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https://give.bobbrown.org.au/donate_to_defend
#StopNativeForestLogging #ForestDefenders #activists #SaveTuckersNob #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #destruction #NSWLogging -
Gleniffer residents close Tuckers Nob to Forestry
"Gleniffer residents gathered at dawn today and reposted ‘Forest Closed’ notices around Tuckers Nob – with a difference.This time the signs read “Forest Closed: To Loggers”.
This is in response to the closure of compartments 26 and 27 by Forestry Corporation late last year, with FCNSW stating its intent to log the area. Community have become frustrated after their expert report around Unique and Special Values there has been ignored."Like in the Amazon or the Congo, the fossil fuel powered machinery of destruction has started wiping out the homes of endemic and rare plants and animals.
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https://bellingenshirenews.com/2024/02/14/gleniffer-residents-close-tuckers-nob-to-forestry/
#EndNativeForestLogging
#SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity #koalas #ClimateEmergency #FCNSW #NSWForestry #Bellingen #values #BellingenLogging #destruction #TuckersNob26 #extinction makers -
Global Forest Watch
Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an online platform that provides data and tools for monitoring forests. By harnessing cutting-edge technology, GFW allows anyone to access near real-time information about where and how forests are changing around the world.
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https://www.globalforestwatch.org/
> #Bellingen
#SaveTuckersNob #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #OpenMaps #LoggingImpacts #deforestation -
#EndNativeForestLogging / #SaveTuckersNob
Fossil fuel machinery has started 'treading lightly' in Tuckers Nob public forest today in Bellingen.
Logging trucks were speeding along Roses community road today at 8.30, delivering giant fossil fuel machinery to start the industrial destruction of Tuckers Nob (compartments 26 and 27) public forest.
A vigil is being held by Friends of Tucker Nob on Gleniffer Rd.
Friends of Tucker Nob
https://www.facebook.com/groups/250189120465227/
Bellingen/ Gleniffer Community group protecting and surveying native forests.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLa7XENA3YI
Tim Cadman showing "the incredible beauty and diversity of Tuckers Nob rainforests and remnant forest. #NSWForestry is trying really hard to hide the wonders of this special Koala habitat."'The Koala lives here'
Stop logging native forests
Stop forest destruction in a climate and biodiversity crisis#SaveTuckersNob #Bellingen #NSWForestry #NSWLogging #FCNSW #RosesRoad #Gleniffer #wildlife #koalas #biodiversity #ClimateExtremes #GumbaynggirrCountry #BellingenShire #roads #ClimateExtremes #FireRisks #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark
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Is Forestry Corporation NSW creating a fire risk for local residents?
"Residents and ecologists express bushfire concern over debris left after logging in Ourimbah State Forest."
"State government-owned Forestry Corporation NSW (FCNSW) logged in the Ourimbah State Forest between July and August last year...Debris including stumps, logs, bark and fallen trees were left behind."
"Ecologist Mark Graham, who visited the Ourimbah State Forest before the most recent logging operation, said the debris was "a threat to human life and property" and could result in "more frequent fires". There's people surrounding the whole area from about a couple of hundred metres onwards."
"Logging has made the forest more vulnerable."
"Australian National University ecologist Professor David Lindenmayer said logging a forest makes it more dangerous because it can drastically increase the severity of a fire burning through the area."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-18/nsw-ourimbah-state-forest-logging-forestry-fire/1032795
#FCNSW #LoggingImpacts #FuelLoads #Bushfire #risks #OurimbahSF #FireHazards #SaveTuckersNob #NSWForestry #BellingenLogging -
Tuckers Nob Forest future still uncertain
"Two months after the Minister for Agriculture, Tara Moriarty, ordered Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) to temporarily suspend logging in Tuckers Nob, there is still no clear indication of what the future holds for the ecologically sensitive area."
"The Department of Primary Industry is presently undertaking a further assessment of the proposed logging of Tuckers Nob compartments 26 and 27 in respect of how the Unique and Special Wildlife Values within the forest may be impacted."
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https://bellingenshirenews.com/2023/12/20/forest-future-still-uncertain/
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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 -
Outsourcing koala monitoring to AI sensors, Western Sydney University
"Artificial intelligence tracks male koala mating calls to guide decisions about habitat and populations."
Boots on the ground is a "very costly and labour intensive approach. The current issue is the detectors that we put out now record everything in the soundscape and then someone has got to sit there, listening for where there is a koala in it."
"Labour intensive approach"? Let AI do the search!
Run audio similarity search on the Australian Acoustic Observatory media archive
https://search.acousticobservatory.org/
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NSW Forestry Corporation reports $15 million loss, taxpayers to foot the bill
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https://www.wilderness.org.au/news-events/nsw-forestry-corporation-reports-15-million-loss-taxpayers-to-foot-the-bill
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Logging practices:
"It's basically dead" AI reveals the legacy of decades of logging in Victoria"An AI-based analysis of 20 years of VicForests’ logging, researchers say, shows the scale of failed regeneration in Victoria’s state forests.The data, which has been shared exclusively with the ABC, suggests that 20 per cent of Victoria’s state forests have not regenerated after logging.... That’s almost 13,000 hectares of state forest the analysis found to be standing in a state of ruin."
"Now the state is shutting its native logging industry in a matter of weeks, and the forests that were once given to Victoria’s state-run logging agency, VicForests, are being returned to the public."
"By law, the logging agency is required to regenerate the areas it has logged and hand them back to the public in a healthy state. But until now, how much that has actually happened has largely been a mystery."
“VicForests is definitely doing a dodgy job, pretty much as they’ve done for the best part of the last 20 years.... We have a biodiversity problem, we have a carbon problem, we have a water problem, we have a fire risk problem,” Professor Lindenmayer
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-01/ai-analysis-finds-failed-forest-regrowth-after-logging-/103153614
#logging #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #VicForests #failure #destruction #compaction #machinery #TimberMining #regeneration #PublicOwnership #liability #StopLogging #NSWLogging #SaveTuckersNob #Bushfires #ClimateEmergency #biodiversityCrisis #extinctions -
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
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Fossil fuel fanned fires are consuming native forests and plantations
Logging also makes forests more flammable"Our research...shows that between 2001 and 2021, severe wildfires worldwide destroyed timber-producing forests equivalent to an area the size of Great Britain. Severe fires reach the tree tops and consume the forest canopy."
"Plantations, like some logged and regenerated native forests, can be highly flammable...This is especially problematic where logging makes forests more prone to burning in a high-severity wildfire.
"...Logging makes forests more flammable. This has been documented in parts of southeastern Australia, where intact forest always burnt at lower severity than harvested forest across the entire footprint of the Black Summer fires. Forests that have been subject to thinning also are at risk of high-severity wildfire."
https://theconversation.com/fire-is-consuming-more-than-ever-of-the-worlds-forests-threatening-supplies-of-wood-and-paper-216643"Where possible, fast-growing timber species should be introduced in plantations, sparing large tracts of old-growth forest elsewhere to support biodiversity and carbon stocks. However, timber plantations are highly flammable. Shifting production in fire-prone regions from monocultures of highly flammable timber species (for example Pinus radiata, Eucalyptus globulus) towards heterogenous mosaics of less-flammable species of varying ages will be vital in reducing timber losses through burning."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01323-yLogging makes forests more flammable:
Nonlinear Effects of Stand Age on Fire Severity
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12122Forests that have been subject to thinning also are at risk of high-severity wildfire.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aec.13096Logging elevated the probability of high-severity fire in the 2019–20 Australian forest fires
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01717-y#NativeForests #timber #cement #wood #FossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #bushfire #fires #BiodiversityCrisis #LandUse #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #StopLogging #SaveTuckersNob
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A national ban on native forest logging
"‘Enough is enough’: former Coalition environment minister joins push for a national ban on native forest logging."
"“Too much of Australia’s rich and often unique biodiversity has been lost,” ... “What remains must be conserved and ending clearing and logging of Australia’s native forests would significantly help".
""...“the best thing we can do to protect our threatened wildlife and to take greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere is to quickly and fairly bring this failing industry to an end”."
"The NSW and Tasmanian governments have been under pressure to act on native forest logging after WA and Victoria committed to ending native forestry."
"...Native forest logging was helping to drive some of Australia’s most loved species towards extinction."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/13/enough-is-enough-former-coalition-environment-minister-joins-push-for-a-national-ban-on-native-forest-logging
#transition #wildlife #biodiversity #NSWLogging #ANationalBan #ForestryCorporation #StopLogging #ClimateEmergency #NativeForests #koalas #ClimateActionNow #extinction #SaveTuckersNob -
Despite $246.9 million in taxpayer money, Forestry Corporation still lost $28 million
"The Nature Conservation Council of NSW has today released a new report from Frontier Economics which reveals for the first time that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars have been gifted to the taxpayer owned logging business Forestry Corporation NSW over the past five years.""The report finds the taxpayer-owned logging business received $246.9 million worth of grants since 2019/20 financial year, while the hardwood division (which is responsible for native forest logging) made a loss of $28.2 million over the same period"
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https://www.echo.net.au/2023/11/despite-246-9-million-in-taxpayer-money-forestry-corporation-still-lost-28-million/"The NSW Government needs to come to terms with the fact that native forest logging is a dying industry and make a plan for a transition. How much more taxpayer money has to be wasted and endangered animals killed before this reality sinks in?" Statements attributable to NCC Chief Executive Officer Jacqui Mumford
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https://www.miragenews.com/forestry-corp-loses-28m-despite-246-9m-taxpayer-1120847/Public native forest logging: a large and growing taxpayer burden, report
"The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) asked Frontier Economics to examine the financial and budgetary drivers behind the Victorian Government’s decision to accelerate the closure of its public native forest logging (NFL) – and how comparable these drivers are in New South Wales and Tasmania.
Poor financial performance and associated budgetary burdens associated with State run NFL operations are common across Australian jurisdictions. Taxpayers are bearing the cost burden of these risky and persistently loss-making government businesses."
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https://assets.nationbuilder.com/natureorg/pages/2713/attachments/original/1699421741/23-11-02_Public_native_forestry_a_growing_taxpayer_burden_Final_report_STC_%281%29.pdf?1699421741
#NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #NFL #tax #NativeForests #StopLogging #degradation #biodiversity #ThreatenedSpecies #habitat #TheGreatKoalaGhetto #wildlife #koalas #ClimateEmergency #ExtinctionCrisis #conservation #SaveTuckersNob -
Let’s talk about a pathway out of native forest logging
"The end of native forest logging is occurring throughout the world. Here in Australia, Western Australia and Victoria have committed to putting an end to their native forest industries and Tasmania (and NSW) should be on the same path."
"Transitioning them into national parks would take them off logging schedules permanently, provide added protection from commercial development and help bolster biodiversity."
https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/pathway_out_of_native_forest_logging
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Re-establish koala populations on fragmented habitats
"Where you've had a population grow from a small number of individuals, there's always potential for inbreeding."
"Drones with thermal cameras have been used to count the koalas and sound recorders are being installed in national parks, and on Crown land and farms along a 100-kilometre stretch of the river. We put the data through a computer and it takes hours and hours and hours of recording and just chops out the little snippets where it thinks there's a koala — then those little snippets get manually verified."
Best practice would be to refrain from logging koala habitat in the first place.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-06/narrandera-koala-colony-model-for-re-establishing-populations/103009652
#StopLogging #NativeForests #biodiversity
#koalas #wildlife #telemetry #habitat #fragmentation #NSW #technosphere #SoundEcology #TheGreatKoalaGhetto #SaveTuckersNob