#stoplogging — Public Fediverse posts

This summer, Indigenous land defenders in “Quebec” made the logging lobby eat shit—blockades, pressure, the whole nine. But the state will try again. The Atikamekw are digging in for winter with a permanent camp to watch their forests and stop illegal cuts. Cold’s coming fast. Kick in so they’ve got what they need to hold the line.

Donate: https://gofund.me/fd5d9f6e2

#Atikamekw #LandBack #ProtectTheForest #StopLogging #Quebec #NoConsentNoContract

This summer, Indigenous land defenders in “Quebec” made the logging lobby eat shit—blockades, pressure, the whole nine. But the state will try again. The Atikamekw are digging in for winter with a permanent camp to watch their forests and stop illegal cuts. Cold’s coming fast. Kick in so they’ve got what they need to hold the line.

Donate: https://gofund.me/fd5d9f6e2

#Atikamekw #LandBack #ProtectTheForest #StopLogging #Quebec #NoConsentNoContract

12 days, thousands of kilometers dodging potholes and cynical corporate PR—from Nehirowisiw Territory to Kanehsatake, swing through Wemotaci, then Mashteuiatsh—just to film land defenders giving CN and the clear-cutting psychopaths the one-finger salute. This clip, They Stopped the Train to Defend the Forest, is a taste of our full doc Defenders of the Forest, dropping soon and free for your solidarity screenings. Stay woke (LOL) and check 🔗 https://amplifierfilms.ca — this isn’t tourism, it’s frontline Indigenous resistance.

#DefendersOfTheForest
#TheyStoppedTheTrain
#IndigenousResistance
#LandBack
#StopLogging
#FrontlineSolidarity
#NehirowisiwTerritory
#Kanehsatake
#Wemotaci
#Mashteuiatsh
#FreeScreenings
#AmplifierFilms

12 days, thousands of kilometers dodging potholes and cynical corporate PR—from Nehirowisiw Territory to Kanehsatake, swing through Wemotaci, then Mashteuiatsh—just to film land defenders giving CN and the clear-cutting psychopaths the one-finger salute. This clip, They Stopped the Train to Defend the Forest, is a taste of our full doc Defenders of the Forest, dropping soon and free for your solidarity screenings. Stay woke (LOL) and check 🔗 https://amplifierfilms.ca — this isn’t tourism, it’s frontline Indigenous resistance.

#DefendersOfTheForest
#TheyStoppedTheTrain
#IndigenousResistance
#LandBack
#StopLogging
#FrontlineSolidarity
#NehirowisiwTerritory
#Kanehsatake
#Wemotaci
#Mashteuiatsh
#FreeScreenings
#AmplifierFilms

Bon, 12 jours à parcourir le soi-disant Québec dans tous les sens – Camp Souveraineté, Kanesatake, Wemotaci, retour à Camp Souveraineté, puis hop, Terre Inu, et enfin Mashteuiatsh – juste pour voir des actes de résistance autochtone badass contre l’avidité forestière. Premier épisode de notre série vidéo, et je vous préviens : ça va dépoter. Montage complet en docu bientôt.

Ne vous inquiétez pas, demain la version anglaise débarque. Et évidemment tout est en français… sauf la partie qui sera en anglais demain, parce que oui, je suis un génie de la logique linguistique. 😉

En juillet 2025, des défenseur·e·s de la terre innu·e·s et nehirowisiw·e·s, membres de l’Alliance MAMO, ont bloqué les voies ferrées du Canadien National entre la Mauricie et l’Abitibi pour stopper l’extraction massive de bois sur leurs territoires non cédés. Malgré la présence policière, les blocus sont restés pacifiques, ancrés dans une volonté de protection du territoire et de la forêt boréale. Amplifier Films était sur place, à Wemotaci et Mashteuiatsh, pour documenter cette action de souveraineté autochtone.

🎬 Restez à l’écoute pour notre documentaire à venir : Les défenseur·e·s de la forêt
👉 https://amplifierfilms.ca/fr/foret
#RésistanceAutochtone #Souveraineté #StopLogging #AmplifierFilms

Bon, 12 jours à parcourir le soi-disant Québec dans tous les sens – Camp Souveraineté, Kanesatake, Wemotaci, retour à Camp Souveraineté, puis hop, Terre Inu, et enfin Mashteuiatsh – juste pour voir des actes de résistance autochtone badass contre l’avidité forestière. Premier épisode de notre série vidéo, et je vous préviens : ça va dépoter. Montage complet en docu bientôt.

Ne vous inquiétez pas, demain la version anglaise débarque. Et évidemment tout est en français… sauf la partie qui sera en anglais demain, parce que oui, je suis un génie de la logique linguistique. 😉

En juillet 2025, des défenseur·e·s de la terre innu·e·s et nehirowisiw·e·s, membres de l’Alliance MAMO, ont bloqué les voies ferrées du Canadien National entre la Mauricie et l’Abitibi pour stopper l’extraction massive de bois sur leurs territoires non cédés. Malgré la présence policière, les blocus sont restés pacifiques, ancrés dans une volonté de protection du territoire et de la forêt boréale. Amplifier Films était sur place, à Wemotaci et Mashteuiatsh, pour documenter cette action de souveraineté autochtone.

🎬 Restez à l’écoute pour notre documentaire à venir : Les défenseur·e·s de la forêt
👉 https://amplifierfilms.ca/fr/foret
#RésistanceAutochtone #Souveraineté #StopLogging #AmplifierFilms

NSW Forestry Corp is under fire, with critics labelling it a "criminal organisation" for allegedly logging protected forests and destroying wildlife habitat. Conservation groups and community members are demanding urgent reform and accountability.

#nswforests #environment #auspol #stoplogging
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/11/nsw-forestry-agency-called-criminal-organisation-by-critics

NSW Forestry Corp is under fire, with critics labelling it a "criminal organisation" for allegedly logging protected forests and destroying wildlife habitat. Conservation groups and community members are demanding urgent reform and accountability.

#nswforests #environment #auspol #stoplogging
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/11/nsw-forestry-agency-called-criminal-organisation-by-critics

Yes, we are here supporting Australian wildlife at the Rally for Native Forests here in Naarm/ Melbourne. Honestly there has been a 73% decline in wildlife globally in the last 50 years. A Global assessment found 38% of tree species facing extinction. And our governments are continuing native forest logging, including in Victoria disguised as Forest Fire Management and planned burns but in reality commercial logging.
We want to see a Great Forest National Park.

https://www.victorianforestalliance.org.au

#nativeforests
#Forests
#Biodiversity
#ChihuahuasforClimateAction
#stoplogging
#Melbourne
#DogsOfMastodon
#Chihuahuas

30 years of forest defence in East Gippsland, Australia.

This video remembers those forest defenders that have died. But an image of myself locked on to a log loader is at 11:11 min.

I was arrested that morning at Goolengook. I spent two weeks in the forest in the winter of 1997 trying to stop the destruction of the ancient trees.

In 2006 the State Government suspended logging while an independent (but government-appointed) assessment was initiated to determine if it should be added to the Victorian Conservation Reserve System.

After ten years of campaigning for the protection of Goolengook, the Victorian State election of November 2006 saw the Australian Labor party returned, with a promise to protect the Goolengook block within a new National Park.

#SaveForests #StopLogging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN7rh4L23Yw&ab_channel=GECOEastGippsland

We need the #BCgovernment to get the message from concerned communities across B.C. that we must work together and with urgency to #protect #OldGrowthForests and #reform #forestry practices. To do so, the next steps are crucial:

#StopLogging in the most at-risk #OldGrowth #forests, and other #ecosystems identified by First Nations, by providing promised funding for #LoggingDeferrals.

Provide full #FinancialSupport to #FirstNations for long-term #IndigenousLed #conservation solutions, including #compensation for lost revenues and employment.

Move away from the “all or nothing” approach common in forestry practices across B.C. and most evident in #ClearcutLogging. In its place, work with First Nations, local residents, industry and other stakeholders to implement forestry practices that prioritize important values like #biodiversity, #habitat, #WaterRetention, #Indigenous #CulturalUse, and #tourism.

#PleaseSignPetition & boost to help #SpreadTheWord ->

https://sierraclub.bc.ca/wildfire-old-growth-action/?utm_source=Marketo&mkt_tok=Nzg4LVlCRi0yOTYAAAGUhI07OaAEm0rqJmnaIkJZ86kkxfjsoItqT8lV-PjGDPO76P-vg90DRUML_EZKE0LJuydxkT67xuIPkQwJvTXXuoFzggBVh2haQrALzqP7

#SierraClubBC #BCpoli #StopEcocide #BritishColumbia #Environmental #SaveOldGrowth #ClimateCrisis #BCNDP #BanCorporateLobbyists #Wildfires #floods #ClimateEmergency #BCwildfires #BCfloods #NaturalDisasters #ClimateMitigation #StopDeforestation #JustStopOil #DoTheRightThing #OneEarth #BCForestryReform

We need the #BCgovernment to get the message from concerned communities across B.C. that we must work together and with urgency to #protect #OldGrowthForests and #reform #forestry practices. To do so, the next steps are crucial:

#StopLogging in the most at-risk #OldGrowth #forests, and other #ecosystems identified by First Nations, by providing promised funding for #LoggingDeferrals.

Provide full #FinancialSupport to #FirstNations for long-term #IndigenousLed #conservation solutions, including #compensation for lost revenues and employment.

Move away from the “all or nothing” approach common in forestry practices across B.C. and most evident in #ClearcutLogging. In its place, work with First Nations, local residents, industry and other stakeholders to implement forestry practices that prioritize important values like #biodiversity, #habitat, #WaterRetention, #Indigenous #CulturalUse, and #tourism.

#PleaseSignPetition & boost to help #SpreadTheWord ->

https://sierraclub.bc.ca/wildfire-old-growth-action/?utm_source=Marketo&mkt_tok=Nzg4LVlCRi0yOTYAAAGUhI07OaAEm0rqJmnaIkJZ86kkxfjsoItqT8lV-PjGDPO76P-vg90DRUML_EZKE0LJuydxkT67xuIPkQwJvTXXuoFzggBVh2haQrALzqP7

#SierraClubBC #BCpoli #StopEcocide #BritishColumbia #Environmental #SaveOldGrowth #ClimateCrisis #BCNDP #BanCorporateLobbyists #Wildfires #floods #ClimateEmergency #BCwildfires #BCfloods #NaturalDisasters #ClimateMitigation #StopDeforestation #JustStopOil #DoTheRightThing #OneEarth #BCForestryReform

How to fast-track extinction
NSW changes are designed to make logging easier
Logging glider and koala habitat is nonsensical
#EndNativeForestLogging

"New logging rules in NSW put the greater glider closer to extinction."

"The NSW Environment Protection Authority this month announced changes to rules in logging operations."

"...Ecologists were shocked by a recent announcement by New South Wales environment authorities that we believe loosens protections for southern greater gliders in logging areas."

"But sadly, extensive glider habitat has been burnt, logged or both. Climate change poses a further risk."

"Since the southern greater glider was listed as vulnerable in 2016, its habitat continued to be destroyed. This is poor management for many reasons:

gliders often die on site when their habitat is disturbed

young forests recovering after disturbances tend to be hotter and drier, which is bad for gliders because they are heat-sensitive

removing hollow-bearing trees not only destroys a key part of glider habitat immediately, but it can take decades (if not centuries) for forest to become suitable again

logging makes forests more flammable and gliders are particularly sensitive to fire

logging can change the composition of tree species in a forest, reducing the availability of quality food for gliders."

"Logging those refuges is nonsensical given the large body of scientific work demonstrating its negative effects. And tinkering around the edge of logging rules will have limited benefits."
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https://theconversation.com/new-logging-rules-in-nsw-put-the-greater-glider-closer-to-extinction-when-will-we-start-protecting-these-amazing-animals-223182

Australia leads the world in native mammal extinctions – roughly 10% have become extinct since British invasion.
Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: Decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1417301112

#NSWForestry #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #koalas #gliders #EndangeredSpecies #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #biodiversity #StopLogging #NativeForests #extinction makers

How to fast-track extinction
NSW changes are designed to make logging easier
Logging glider and koala habitat is nonsensical
#EndNativeForestLogging

"New logging rules in NSW put the greater glider closer to extinction."

"The NSW Environment Protection Authority this month announced changes to rules in logging operations."

"...Ecologists were shocked by a recent announcement by New South Wales environment authorities that we believe loosens protections for southern greater gliders in logging areas."

"But sadly, extensive glider habitat has been burnt, logged or both. Climate change poses a further risk."

"Since the southern greater glider was listed as vulnerable in 2016, its habitat continued to be destroyed. This is poor management for many reasons:

gliders often die on site when their habitat is disturbed

young forests recovering after disturbances tend to be hotter and drier, which is bad for gliders because they are heat-sensitive

removing hollow-bearing trees not only destroys a key part of glider habitat immediately, but it can take decades (if not centuries) for forest to become suitable again

logging makes forests more flammable and gliders are particularly sensitive to fire

logging can change the composition of tree species in a forest, reducing the availability of quality food for gliders."

"Logging those refuges is nonsensical given the large body of scientific work demonstrating its negative effects. And tinkering around the edge of logging rules will have limited benefits."
>>
https://theconversation.com/new-logging-rules-in-nsw-put-the-greater-glider-closer-to-extinction-when-will-we-start-protecting-these-amazing-animals-223182

Australia leads the world in native mammal extinctions – roughly 10% have become extinct since British invasion.
Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: Decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1417301112

#NSWForestry #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #koalas #gliders #EndangeredSpecies #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #biodiversity #StopLogging #NativeForests #extinction makers

The forests pledge
ITS TIME TO END LOGGING IN NATIVE FORESTS ACROSS AUSTRALIA
Half of Australia’s forests have been lost.
https://theforestpledge.com.au/

Letter sample
https://assets.nationbuilder.com/imack/pages/755/attachments/original/1699592628/Native_Forest_Logging_Letter_Template.pdf
#StopLogging #NSWLogging #NativeForests #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency

The forests pledge
ITS TIME TO END LOGGING IN NATIVE FORESTS ACROSS AUSTRALIA
Half of Australia’s forests have been lost.
https://theforestpledge.com.au/

Letter sample
https://assets.nationbuilder.com/imack/pages/755/attachments/original/1699592628/Native_Forest_Logging_Letter_Template.pdf
#StopLogging #NSWLogging #NativeForests #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Outrage as endangered species living in forest goes unnoticed by loggers chopping it down. 'Nothing to see here': Greater gliders, yellow-bellied gliders, koalas and powerful owls.

“Forestry Corporation admitted that they don’t do surveys for the nocturnal greater gliders at night! No wonder they aren’t finding any — they don’t want to find them, as it would seriously restrict their operations,” CEO Jacqui Mumford

"Endangered marsupials have been discovered inside a forest that was being chopped down by the NSW government, prompting calls for its operations to be suspended across dozens of sites across the state."

"After the Environmental Protection Agency was asked to intervene this week, NSW Forestry Corporation voluntarily asked its contractors to cease operations at the Styx River State Forest which borders the Cathedral Rock National Park, west of Coffs Harbour. It’s the second time since August the state-owned agency has been forced to down chainsaws because of the discovery of greater gliders."

https://au.news.yahoo.com/outrage-as-endangered-species-living-in-forest-goes-unnoticed-by-loggers-chopping-it-down-063558748.html
#MoonparSF #CoffsHarbour #NativeForests #NSWForestry #NSWLogging #gliders #Koalas #wildlife #biodiversity #surveys #ExtinctionCrisis #StopLogging

Outrage as endangered species living in forest goes unnoticed by loggers chopping it down. 'Nothing to see here': Greater gliders, yellow-bellied gliders, koalas and powerful owls.

“Forestry Corporation admitted that they don’t do surveys for the nocturnal greater gliders at night! No wonder they aren’t finding any — they don’t want to find them, as it would seriously restrict their operations,” CEO Jacqui Mumford

"Endangered marsupials have been discovered inside a forest that was being chopped down by the NSW government, prompting calls for its operations to be suspended across dozens of sites across the state."

"After the Environmental Protection Agency was asked to intervene this week, NSW Forestry Corporation voluntarily asked its contractors to cease operations at the Styx River State Forest which borders the Cathedral Rock National Park, west of Coffs Harbour. It’s the second time since August the state-owned agency has been forced to down chainsaws because of the discovery of greater gliders."

https://au.news.yahoo.com/outrage-as-endangered-species-living-in-forest-goes-unnoticed-by-loggers-chopping-it-down-063558748.html
#MoonparSF #CoffsHarbour #NativeForests #NSWForestry #NSWLogging #gliders #Koalas #wildlife #biodiversity #surveys #ExtinctionCrisis #StopLogging

The impacts of extreme heat events on wildlife
How koalas are trying to cope

Temperatures are predicted to swelter above 40 degrees today in NSW. People are retreating into their coal-fired AC houses and AC combustion boxes. Dogs are offered drinking bowls at almost every door in Bellingen, but Australian animals are out there in a degraded landscape having to deal with the extreme heat we generate.

Koalas are "using a tree species they don't feed on ... [hugging] the main trunks of trees and lower to the ground. We came up with the idea they were losing heat to the tree trunks. I found a colleague with a fancy thermal camera and went out in hot weather and it's exactly what they were doing. By pressing their body into the coolest tree they could find, the koalas halved their need to drink water in heatwaves. Hugging trees may not be enough for koalas to maintain their already dwindling distribution with rising average temperatures."

Stop fossil fuels consumption
Put out fresh water for wildlife
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-12-09/australian-animals-summer-heat-kangaroos-emus-termites-echidna/103120678
#ExtremeHeatwaves #FossilFuels #wildlife #Koalas #Bellingen #StopLogging #NativeForests

The impacts of extreme heat events on wildlife
How koalas are trying to cope

Temperatures are predicted to swelter above 40 degrees today in NSW. People are retreating into their coal-fired AC houses and AC combustion boxes. Dogs are offered drinking bowls at almost every door in Bellingen, but Australian animals are out there in a degraded landscape having to deal with the extreme heat we generate.

Koalas are "using a tree species they don't feed on ... [hugging] the main trunks of trees and lower to the ground. We came up with the idea they were losing heat to the tree trunks. I found a colleague with a fancy thermal camera and went out in hot weather and it's exactly what they were doing. By pressing their body into the coolest tree they could find, the koalas halved their need to drink water in heatwaves. Hugging trees may not be enough for koalas to maintain their already dwindling distribution with rising average temperatures."

Stop fossil fuels consumption
Put out fresh water for wildlife
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-12-09/australian-animals-summer-heat-kangaroos-emus-termites-echidna/103120678
#ExtremeHeatwaves #FossilFuels #wildlife #Koalas #Bellingen #StopLogging #NativeForests

Displaced koala found adjacent to a clearfell logging operation in the proposed Great Koala National Park

"The National Parks Association NSW (NPA) has obtained video of a likely displaced koala barely 40m from the edge of a clearfelled logging coupe in Pine Creek State Forest within the proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP).
Koala Hubs contain critical multi generational koala populations and their habitat. Logging of Koala Hubs within the proposed GKNP was suspended by the NSW Government last September, but unfortunately Koala Hubs in plantations were not included in the decision and continue to be logged."
>>
https://npansw.org.au/2023/12/07/displaced-koala-found-adjacent-to-a-clearfell-logging-operation-in-the-proposed-great-koala-national-park/
#Koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #Biodiversity #PineCreek #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #StopLogging

Displaced koala found adjacent to a clearfell logging operation in the proposed Great Koala National Park

"The National Parks Association NSW (NPA) has obtained video of a likely displaced koala barely 40m from the edge of a clearfelled logging coupe in Pine Creek State Forest within the proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP).
Koala Hubs contain critical multi generational koala populations and their habitat. Logging of Koala Hubs within the proposed GKNP was suspended by the NSW Government last September, but unfortunately Koala Hubs in plantations were not included in the decision and continue to be logged."
>>
https://npansw.org.au/2023/12/07/displaced-koala-found-adjacent-to-a-clearfell-logging-operation-in-the-proposed-great-koala-national-park/
#Koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #Biodiversity #PineCreek #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #StopLogging

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!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-04/biodiversity-monitoring-services-ai-track-male-koala-mating-call/103183972

Run audio similarity search on the Australian Acoustic Observatory media archive
https://search.acousticobservatory.org/
#SoundEcology #soundscape #AI #Wildlife #Sound #Koalas #Biodiversity #monitoring #StopLogging #NativeForests #wildlife #SaveTuckersNob

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!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-04/biodiversity-monitoring-services-ai-track-male-koala-mating-call/103183972

Run audio similarity search on the Australian Acoustic Observatory media archive
https://search.acousticobservatory.org/
#SoundEcology #soundscape #AI #Wildlife #Sound #Koalas #Biodiversity #monitoring #StopLogging #NativeForests #wildlife #SaveTuckersNob

NSW Forestry Corporation reports $15 million loss, taxpayers to foot the bill
>>
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

NSW Forestry Corporation reports $15 million loss, taxpayers to foot the bill
>>
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

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
>>
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

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
>>
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

Converting public forests into national parks...

We need "to stave off the extinction crisis and stop the biodiversity freefall. To do that means protecting adequate samples of all of Australia’s unique species and ecosystems....We’ve committed to protect 30% of Australia’s land by 2030. Here’s how we could actually do it."

"In the 1990s and 2000s, Australia’s Regional Forest Agreements were dogged by controversy. But in retrospect, these logging-conservation deals led to significant gains in converting public forests into national parks."

"As Victoria and Western Australia announce an end to native forest logging, we should explore the areas previously set aside for logging with an eye to protection based on ecosystem, carbon and water values. First Nations communities have rightly asked to be involved in what happens next."
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https://theconversation.com/weve-committed-to-protect-30-of-australias-land-by-2030-heres-how-we-could-actually-do-it-217795
#biodiversityCrisis #30x30 #conservation #restore #IndigenousPeoples #biodiversity #StopLogging #NativeForests

Converting public forests into national parks...

We need "to stave off the extinction crisis and stop the biodiversity freefall. To do that means protecting adequate samples of all of Australia’s unique species and ecosystems....We’ve committed to protect 30% of Australia’s land by 2030. Here’s how we could actually do it."

"In the 1990s and 2000s, Australia’s Regional Forest Agreements were dogged by controversy. But in retrospect, these logging-conservation deals led to significant gains in converting public forests into national parks."

"As Victoria and Western Australia announce an end to native forest logging, we should explore the areas previously set aside for logging with an eye to protection based on ecosystem, carbon and water values. First Nations communities have rightly asked to be involved in what happens next."
>>
https://theconversation.com/weve-committed-to-protect-30-of-australias-land-by-2030-heres-how-we-could-actually-do-it-217795
#biodiversityCrisis #30x30 #conservation #restore #IndigenousPeoples #biodiversity #StopLogging #NativeForests

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-y

Logging makes forests more flammable:
Nonlinear Effects of Stand Age on Fire Severity
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12122

Forests that have been subject to thinning also are at risk of high-severity wildfire.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aec.13096

Logging 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

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-y

Logging makes forests more flammable:
Nonlinear Effects of Stand Age on Fire Severity
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12122

Forests that have been subject to thinning also are at risk of high-severity wildfire.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aec.13096

Logging 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

Animals to be recognised as sentient beings under proposed Victorian cruelty laws
"The government has also committed to reform of the Wildlife Act 1975 after the killing of hundreds of wedge-tailed eagles in East Gippsland and koala deaths in a timber plantation at Cape Bridgewater."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/14/animals-sentient-beings-victorian-cruelty-laws

#animal #cruelty #sentience #law #WildlifeAct #TradeAgreement #eagles #octopus #NativeForests #StopLogging #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #wildlife #koalas

Animals to be recognised as sentient beings under proposed Victorian cruelty laws
"The government has also committed to reform of the Wildlife Act 1975 after the killing of hundreds of wedge-tailed eagles in East Gippsland and koala deaths in a timber plantation at Cape Bridgewater."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/14/animals-sentient-beings-victorian-cruelty-laws

#animal #cruelty #sentience #law #WildlifeAct #TradeAgreement #eagles #octopus #NativeForests #StopLogging #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #wildlife #koalas

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

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"
>>.
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
>>
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."
>>
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

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"
>>.
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
>>
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."
>>
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
#NativeForests #StopLogging #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #SaveTuckersNob #conservation #koalas #ClimateExtremes #biodiversity

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
#NativeForests #StopLogging #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #SaveTuckersNob #conservation #koalas #ClimateExtremes #biodiversity

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

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

Save swift parrots
End native forest logging
https://saveswifties.org/

Forest protest reclaims Swift Parrot habitat from loggers.
https://bobbrown.org.au/forest-protest-reclaims-swift-parrot-habitat-from-loggers/

#Australia #destruction #LoggingIndustry #CriminalisationProtest #StopLogging #NativeForests #birds #BiodiversityCrisis

Save swift parrots
End native forest logging
https://saveswifties.org/

Forest protest reclaims Swift Parrot habitat from loggers.
https://bobbrown.org.au/forest-protest-reclaims-swift-parrot-habitat-from-loggers/

#Australia #destruction #LoggingIndustry #CriminalisationProtest #StopLogging #NativeForests #birds #BiodiversityCrisis

Eric Dinerstein et al argue for "A “Global Safety Net” to reverse biodiversity loss and stabilize Earth’s climate."

"Global strategies to halt the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change are often formulated separately, even though they are interdependent and risk failure if pursued in isolation. The Global Safety Net maps how expanded nature conservation addresses both overarching threats."
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abb2824

In a nutshell:
Provide connectivity: wildlife and climate corridors.
Stop deforestation.
Involve and respect Indigenous knowledge.

The Global Safety Net
The first global-scale analysis of land areas requiring protection to solve the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change, upholding and strengthening Indigenous land rights.The Global Safety Net is the first comprehensive global-scale analysis of terrestrial areas essential for biodiversity and climate resilience, totaling 50.4% of the Earth's land.
https://www.globalsafetynet.app/
#biodiversity #wildlife #habitat #connectivity #ecology #ClimateEmergency #IndigenousKnowledge #nature #conservation #restoration #restore #ProtectingHeritage #StopLogging #NativeForests #TheGreatKoalaGhetto

Eric Dinerstein et al argue for "A “Global Safety Net” to reverse biodiversity loss and stabilize Earth’s climate."

"Global strategies to halt the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change are often formulated separately, even though they are interdependent and risk failure if pursued in isolation. The Global Safety Net maps how expanded nature conservation addresses both overarching threats."
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abb2824

In a nutshell:
Provide connectivity: wildlife and climate corridors.
Stop deforestation.
Involve and respect Indigenous knowledge.

The Global Safety Net
The first global-scale analysis of land areas requiring protection to solve the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change, upholding and strengthening Indigenous land rights.The Global Safety Net is the first comprehensive global-scale analysis of terrestrial areas essential for biodiversity and climate resilience, totaling 50.4% of the Earth's land.
https://www.globalsafetynet.app/
#biodiversity #wildlife #habitat #connectivity #ecology #ClimateEmergency #IndigenousKnowledge #nature #conservation #restoration #restore #ProtectingHeritage #StopLogging #NativeForests #TheGreatKoalaGhetto

Koalas in a sustainable timber industry habitat - gov update

"The establishment of the advisory panels is another important step towards the NSW Government’s commitment to save koalas in the wild. This will be done while balancing the need to have a sustainable timber industry. $80 million has been committed to the Great Koala National Park in the 2023–24 NSW Budget."

"Timber harvesting operations have stopped in 106 koala hubs within the areas being assessed for inclusion in the park. Koala hubs are areas where there is strong evidence of multi-generational, high-density populations of the iconic animal. These areas account for 42% of recorded koala sightings in s t a t e f o r e s t s in the assessment area since 2000."

"The industry, community and Aboriginal advisory panels will ensure we consult with all stakeholders, to create a park that will both protect our native animals and create job, tourism and other economic opportunities on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales."

All well and good!?
#SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity
>>
https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/news/update-on-the-creation-of-the-great-koala-national-park
#LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #consultation #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #StopLogging #StateForests #koalas #BiodiversityCrisis

Koalas in a sustainable timber industry habitat - gov update

"The establishment of the advisory panels is another important step towards the NSW Government’s commitment to save koalas in the wild. This will be done while balancing the need to have a sustainable timber industry. $80 million has been committed to the Great Koala National Park in the 2023–24 NSW Budget."

"Timber harvesting operations have stopped in 106 koala hubs within the areas being assessed for inclusion in the park. Koala hubs are areas where there is strong evidence of multi-generational, high-density populations of the iconic animal. These areas account for 42% of recorded koala sightings in s t a t e f o r e s t s in the assessment area since 2000."

"The industry, community and Aboriginal advisory panels will ensure we consult with all stakeholders, to create a park that will both protect our native animals and create job, tourism and other economic opportunities on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales."

All well and good!?
#SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity
>>
https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/news/update-on-the-creation-of-the-great-koala-national-park
#LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #consultation #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #StopLogging #StateForests #koalas #BiodiversityCrisis

The history of forests
We are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle, Jean-Baptiste Vidalou
Translated by Stephen Muecke

"Governments try to deny it since their interests are placed in other places. They talk about sustainability, ecological transition, and zero carbon economy, but it’s all just a show. Behind the scenes rules the same extracting logic. The various mechanisms for reducing gas emissions due to deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) are only an illusion when they are directly linked to carbon credits and compensation mechanisms. Timber companies continue to fiercely exploit the forests and, at the same time, pride themselves as “acting for the climate”. The cynicism goes even further when these companies, with the support of governments, drive out local populations in the name of global forest management. According to these companies, the native peasants do not have the knowledge required to exploit these territories. They do not fully “own” the land since they do not capitalize it. A paternalist colonial approach indeed!"

"All of today’s modernized forestry, with its super-powered harvesters and heavy loaders, is geared towards this one purpose: planned harvesting and rapid product exploitation."
>>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=we-are-forests-inhabiting-territories-in-struggle--9781509556519
#book #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #FossilFuels #WarOfTheDemoiselles #StopLogging #NSWForestry #extractivism #EnvironmentalJustice #governance #ClearFelling #sacrifice #roads #biodiversity #ClimateEmergency

The history of forests
We are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle, Jean-Baptiste Vidalou
Translated by Stephen Muecke

"Governments try to deny it since their interests are placed in other places. They talk about sustainability, ecological transition, and zero carbon economy, but it’s all just a show. Behind the scenes rules the same extracting logic. The various mechanisms for reducing gas emissions due to deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) are only an illusion when they are directly linked to carbon credits and compensation mechanisms. Timber companies continue to fiercely exploit the forests and, at the same time, pride themselves as “acting for the climate”. The cynicism goes even further when these companies, with the support of governments, drive out local populations in the name of global forest management. According to these companies, the native peasants do not have the knowledge required to exploit these territories. They do not fully “own” the land since they do not capitalize it. A paternalist colonial approach indeed!"

"All of today’s modernized forestry, with its super-powered harvesters and heavy loaders, is geared towards this one purpose: planned harvesting and rapid product exploitation."
>>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=we-are-forests-inhabiting-territories-in-struggle--9781509556519
#book #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #FossilFuels #WarOfTheDemoiselles #StopLogging #NSWForestry #extractivism #EnvironmentalJustice #governance #ClearFelling #sacrifice #roads #biodiversity #ClimateEmergency

Deforestation has big impact on regional temperatures

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

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

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

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

Deforestation has big impact on regional temperatures

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

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

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

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

Forest wars and the angel of history
Nothing shall stand in the way of making money

"Forestry Tasmania lodged legal action seeking $6,200 damages from Ms Beltran over her disruptions to native forest logging. Her angel protest had been blocking a road, and police also wanted compensation.Tasmanian government authorities taking legal action against an angel. It was an amazing story."

"Native forest logging continues in most regions, and the Tasmanian government has introduced harsher penalties for protest activity that disrupts public roads and stops businesses from making money."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-31/weld-angel-photo-brings-world-attention-to-tasmanian-forests/103040832

"A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."
Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History," 1940

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus_Novus#cite_note-2
#LoggingIndustry #Australia #WeldAngel #photography #AngelusNovus #protests #action #logging #NativeForests #StopLogging #progress #destruction #climate #catastrophe

Forest wars and the angel of history
Nothing shall stand in the way of making money

"Forestry Tasmania lodged legal action seeking $6,200 damages from Ms Beltran over her disruptions to native forest logging. Her angel protest had been blocking a road, and police also wanted compensation.Tasmanian government authorities taking legal action against an angel. It was an amazing story."

"Native forest logging continues in most regions, and the Tasmanian government has introduced harsher penalties for protest activity that disrupts public roads and stops businesses from making money."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-31/weld-angel-photo-brings-world-attention-to-tasmanian-forests/103040832

"A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."
Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History," 1940

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus_Novus#cite_note-2
#LoggingIndustry #Australia #WeldAngel #photography #AngelusNovus #protests #action #logging #NativeForests #StopLogging #progress #destruction #climate #catastrophe

In Bellingen it appears normal that native trees are driven through the centre of town. The koala breeding season does not stop the logging industry from clear-felling its habitat.

In Tasmania they are logging public forests in the critically endangered swift parrot nesting season and traipsing centuries-old trees through Hobart.

"The end of native logging in Victoria has increased the pressure on Tasmania's industry, with companies crossing the border in search of forestry work."
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-28/photo-hundreds-years-old-trees-on-trucks-angers-bob-brown-group/103027476
#Bellingen #BellingenLogging #Tasmania #LoggingIndustry #EndNativeForstLogging #birds #koala #StopLogging #SaveTuckersNob #BiodiversityCrisis

In Bellingen it appears normal that native trees are driven through the centre of town. The koala breeding season does not stop the logging industry from clear-felling its habitat.

In Tasmania they are logging public forests in the critically endangered swift parrot nesting season and traipsing centuries-old trees through Hobart.

"The end of native logging in Victoria has increased the pressure on Tasmania's industry, with companies crossing the border in search of forestry work."
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-28/photo-hundreds-years-old-trees-on-trucks-angers-bob-brown-group/103027476
#Bellingen #BellingenLogging #Tasmania #LoggingIndustry #EndNativeForstLogging #birds #koala #StopLogging #SaveTuckersNob #BiodiversityCrisis

NSW destroying native forests and Greater Gliders
Tallaganda Forest destruction and the public outrage> Stop Work Order EPA

"The Tallaganda is one of the few strongholds in NSW of the Greater Glider, a nationally listed endangered species. Greater Gliders are dependent on old growth trees for their nesting hollows and the Tallaganda Forest provides these.
Had it not been for the speedy action of Wilderness Australia, WWF and many concerned citizens the logging would have continued apace."
https://johnmenadue.com/environment-andrew-forrests-climate-message-to-biden-modi-and-xi/

"A month ago, I reported the plans of the Forestry Corporation of NSW to log the Tallaganda State Forest and the forty-day Stop Work Order issued by the NSW Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) in response to public outrage."
https://johnmenadue.com/environment-on-track-for-2-degrees-of-warming-within-20-years/
#ForestryCorporation #NSWLogging #TallagandaSF #PublicOutrage #AuWrongDirection #WildernessAustralia #WWF #SouthEastForestRescue #EPA #StopWorkOrder #NativeForests #Biodiversity #StopLogging #SaveTuckersNob

NSW destroying native forests and Greater Gliders
Tallaganda Forest destruction and the public outrage> Stop Work Order EPA

"The Tallaganda is one of the few strongholds in NSW of the Greater Glider, a nationally listed endangered species. Greater Gliders are dependent on old growth trees for their nesting hollows and the Tallaganda Forest provides these.
Had it not been for the speedy action of Wilderness Australia, WWF and many concerned citizens the logging would have continued apace."
https://johnmenadue.com/environment-andrew-forrests-climate-message-to-biden-modi-and-xi/

"A month ago, I reported the plans of the Forestry Corporation of NSW to log the Tallaganda State Forest and the forty-day Stop Work Order issued by the NSW Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) in response to public outrage."
https://johnmenadue.com/environment-on-track-for-2-degrees-of-warming-within-20-years/
#ForestryCorporation #NSWLogging #TallagandaSF #PublicOutrage #AuWrongDirection #WildernessAustralia #WWF #SouthEastForestRescue #EPA #StopWorkOrder #NativeForests #Biodiversity #StopLogging #SaveTuckersNob

"We are stumbling into the abyss" John Woinarski
The Ecological Society of Australia
Speakers: Professor John Woinarski (Charles Darwin University) and Professor Anne Poelina (Chair, Martuwarra Council).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JDJ9RdIkP4&t=1125s
(22 min: Why they had to stop logging in Victoria)
(Pity they can't afford a proper microphone at uni)

#Australia #cats #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #VictoriaLogging #StopLogging #Bellingen #SnappyTurtle #conflict #Nature #care #IntergenerationalJustice #ecology #rights #restore #biodiversity #extinction makers