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  1. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    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"
    >>.
    echo.net.au/2023/11/despite-24

    "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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    miragenews.com/forestry-corp-l

    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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    assets.nationbuilder.com/natur
    #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #NFL #tax #NativeForests #StopLogging #degradation #biodiversity #ThreatenedSpecies #habitat #TheGreatKoalaGhetto #wildlife #koalas #ClimateEmergency #ExtinctionCrisis #conservation #SaveTuckersNob

    #nswlogging #loggingindustry #tax #nativeforests #stoplogging #degradation
  2. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    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.

    abc.net.au/news/2023-11-06/nar
    #StopLogging #NativeForests #biodiversity
    #koalas #wildlife #telemetry #habitat #fragmentation #NSW #technosphere #SoundEcology #TheGreatKoalaGhetto #SaveTuckersNob

    #stoplogging #nativeforests #biodiversity #koalas #wildlife #telemetry
  3. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    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."
    science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

    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.
    globalsafetynet.app/
    #biodiversity #wildlife #habitat #connectivity #ecology #ClimateEmergency #IndigenousKnowledge #nature #conservation #restoration #restore #ProtectingHeritage #StopLogging #NativeForests #TheGreatKoalaGhetto

    #biodiversity #wildlife #habitat #connectivity #ecology #climateemergency