#savetuckersnob — Public Fediverse posts

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

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=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/

#SaveTuckersNob #BreachWatch #TuckersNob26 #LoggingIndustry #FCNSW #LoggingImpacts #ForestConversion #NSWForestry #BellingenLogging #RemnantVegetation #rainforest #MosquitoBorneDiseases #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #electricity #koalas #VectorBorneDiseases #BellingenShire

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

#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

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/
#NSWForestry #NSWLogging #FCNSW #RosesRoad #Gleniffer #SaveTuckersNob #wildlife #koalas #biodiversity #ClimateExtremes #GumbaynggirrCountry

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
#PineCreek #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #NSWForestry #koalas #extinction #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency

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

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
#NSWForestry #NSWLogging #NativeForests #StopLogging #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ThreatenedSpecies #destruction

Mid Coast Forestry Devastation
Logging on the NSW Mid North Coast in the proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP) and the local activities organising to stop it.

"Forestry devastation and road works to facilitate new devastation continues at breakneck speed within the footprint of the Great Koala National Park (GKNP)."

"The Forest Embassy coordinated by Forest Ecology Alliance operates Monday to Saturday from a marquee in the main street of Bellingen."

Must read in full>>
https://knittingnannas.org/2023/10/08/mid-coast-forestry-devastation/

Forestry Corporation Plan Portal
https://planportal.fcnsw.net

Forest Ecology Alliance
https://www.facebook.com/forestecologyalliance

#NSW #ForestryCorporation #IndustrialLogging #BellingenLogging #Bellingen #OaksSF #KalangSF #NewryStateForest #SaveTuckersNob #ForestEcologyAlliance #ResistDestruction #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #biodiversity

Some small successes for the Great Koala National Park
Independent koala surveys of the forest and protect native forest remnants in Tuckers Nob State Forest needed.

"Dr Cadman said Tuckers Nob State Forest is inside the proposed GKNP, and has koalas and rainforest remnants containing Ringwood trees (aniseed myrtle) which only grow in the Nambucca, Kalang and Bellinger river valleys."

"The Friends of Tuckers Knob "sought legal advice, and, after interactions between their legal team and the Minister, operations have been suspended pending an investigation of the forest’s “unique and special biodiversity values” under the Act."

http://www.newsofthearea.com.au/some-small-successes-for-local-residents-and-conservationists
#PineCreek #NativeForests #NSWLogging #IndustrialLogging #SaveTuckersNob #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #biodiversity

Have they simply stopped monitoring the logging of native forests in NSW?

"The NSW budget rejected any funding for a mandatory monitoring program of forestry operations. This runs counter to international standards. Suzanne Arnold reports on Australia’s forestry fail."

"The lack of funding came in spite of pleas from the critically important Forest Monitoring & Improvement Program, which monitors NSW native logging, and the 20 year Regional Forest Agreements."

"The Montreal Process Working Group framework underpins and is the foundation of Australia’s state and federal forestry approvals and operations. Scientific and legal evidence provided in reports, legal challenges, and other research provides compelling evidence showing Australia is in non-compliance with the entire MPG framework."

read the full articles>
https://michaelwest.com.au/nsw-governments-non-compliance-with-international-standards-threatens-forest-protection/

Smoke ‘n mirrors budget: forests and koalas are great but logging and money are better!
https://michaelwest.com.au/smoke-n-mirrors-budget-forests-and-koalas-are-great-but-logging-and-money-are-better/
#Australia #governance #noncompliance #NativeForests #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #SaveTuckersNob #MontrealProcessWorkingGroup #MPG #RFAs #MontréalProcess #ecosystems #NSW #biodiversity #conservation

#SaveTuckersNob meeting, Bellingen

Residents and friends of biodiversity (more-than-human systems) around Roses Road and Gleniffer Road, are invited to a picnic.

Saturday 2nd September
603 Roses Road
12.00- 2.00 pm

#logging #BellingenLogging #deforestation #ClearFelling #RosesRoad #GlenifferRoad #Bellingen #traffic #trucks #dust #FossilFuel #machinery #livability #water #catchment #consultation #RemnantVegetation #koalas #GKNP #biodiversity #conservation #ClimateEmergency #governance #SaveTuckersNob