#vicforests — Public Fediverse posts

After the closure of VicForests, The Healthy Forests Foundation is reborn - the new face of logging in Victoria

"VicForests' June 30 closure followed allegations of widespread and illegal logging, referrals to corruption watchdogs and revelations the organisation had spied on conservationists."

The Healthy Forests Foundation
""The aim is just to work out ways to keep cutting the forest. It's a front — it's just a way of keeping the [logging] industry going. It's kind of like the 'healthy smoking foundation'..Professor Lindenmayer, who spent decades studying the impacts of logging on forests, described the Healthy Forests Foundation as "greenwashing on steroids".

"The Healthy Forests Foundation says its purpose is to promote First Nations forest management, which proponents admit will also supply timber. One Indigenous leader said the Healthy Forests Foundation looked like "black cladding" — a way for largely non-Indigenous industries to gain access to resources by taking advantage of Indigenous peoples' access...It is not self-determination. It is tokenism."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-08/vicforests-closure-healthy-forests-foundation-logging/104194836
#LoggingIndustry #VicForests #ImpressionManagement #GeenWashing #BlackCladding #extractivism #EndNativeForestLogging #FirstNationsPeoples #NativeForests #conservation #biodiversity #ClimateCrisis

With the shut-down of paper mills it feels like there is a real chance of ending native forest logging in Victoria.

I've just called the Premier's office and left a message asking for a halt to native forest logging and a just transition for workers. You can call on 03 9651 5000.

#NativeForestLogging #VicForests #DanielAndrews #VictorianForests #VictorianForestAlliance #VFA

On @InThoseDays podcast we discussed the gliders court case with Felicity Law. This case was a big win for small community environment groups Kinglake Friends of the Forest, Gippsland Environment Group and Environment East Gippsland @KinglakeForest

VicForests is now required to properly survey forest before logging and protect glider habitat if they are found.

It could mean the end of native forest logging in Victoria and someone could make a movie about it, I reckon.

You can read more here: https://eastgippsland.net.au/eeg-media-releases/gliders-receive-court-protection-vicforests-found-to-have-broken-the-law/

And listen to Felicity here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5luP9loWl0MMcCIoNzl3q3

#GreaterGliders #VicForests #NativeForestLogging

On @InThoseDays we spoke to my cousin Felicity Law who has been involved in forest activism and the very successful greater glider court case in Victoria.

We looked back into the newspaper archives to see that threats to greater gliders from habitat loss was understood decades ago.

We no longer call them flying squirrels but VicForests is still cutting down their habitat.

https://podcasts.apple.com/sa/podcast/giving-a-flying-phalanger/id1558781853?i=1000593629883

#VicForests #GreaterGliders #NativeForestLogging #NewspaperArchives #Trove

Another report released about why native forest logging doesn't make sense. This time it's from a right-leaning think-tank Blueprint Institute.

This AFR article about the report contains some of the best anti-native logging quotes I've ever read!

This might be my favourite: "The native logging industry is propped up by government to protect an ever-decreasing number of jobs and placate misguided pressure from vested interests."

#NativeForestLogging #VicForests #NativeForest #VictorianForests

https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/logging-native-forests-in-victoria-costs-more-money-than-it-makes-20221114-p5by4s

#Introduction. I write books for young people - published by University of Queensland Press.

I've just finished a qualification in Information Management and would like to work in a public library. I love the National Library of Australia's digital archive Trove and have a podcast called In Those Days discussing newspaper articles that have a personal connection to a guest.

I try to mention the climate crisis a fair bit on social media. I'm particularly interested in the extent of fossil fuel sponsorships in Australia and how these extend social license.

I support campaigns to end native forest logging in Victoria.

I often analyse people through the prism of what netball position they play, or which BSC member they are most like. If I'm honest, I am a WD and a Mallory.

#ClimateAction #MiddleGrade #KidLit #AusLit #FossilAdBan #FossilFuelSponsorship #NativeForestLogging #VicForests #VictorianForests #Trove #GreaterGliders #NationalLibraryofAustralia #NLA #BSC #Netball