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An Australian state promised to turn native forest into a national koala park. It’s still being logged

The koala was officially declared endangered in the Australian state of New South Wales in February 2022. A year later, the ...
The Conversation

More than half of NSW’s forests and woodlands are gone as ongoing logging increases extinction risks, study shows

Michelle Ward has received funding from The Australian Research Council and the Commonwealth National Environmental Science Program. She was Science and Research Lead at WWF-Australia and is currently ...
Jurist

Australia court dismisses environmentalist challenge to native logging operations

The Federal Court of Australia dismissed Wednesday a challenge seeking to extend an intergovernmental forestry agreement. As a result, logging operations in native forests are set to continue along ...
The Conversation

What should happen to native forests when logging ends? Ask Victoria’s First Peoples

Jack Pascoe is affiliated with the Biodiversity Council, Back to Country and the Conservation Ecology Centre. Matthew Shanks works for Taungurung Land and Waters Council and receives funding from the ...
Mongabay

What does land mean to Australia’s Indigenous groups fighting logging?

Many Indigenous Gumbaynggirr people in Australia feel an intimate connection to their ancestral lands, which holds the trees, animals, ancestral spirits and creation stories that form a core part of ...
The Australian

Murray Watt’s ‘fix’ leaves logging industry and greenies stumped

The timber trade is accustomed to being a political football, famously playing a key role in deciding the fate of Mark Latham v John Howard in the 2004 federal election. Native forest policy continues ...
Mena FN

Australia Has New Laws To Protect Nature. Do They Signal An End To Native Forest Logging?

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Reforms to Australia's nature laws have passed federal parliament. A longstanding exemption that meant federal environment laws did not apply to native logging has finally ...
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An Australian state promised to turn native forest into a national koala park. It’s still being logged

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Labor Party of Australia’s New South Wales state made a 2023 campaign promise to establish a Great Koala National Park to protect the iconic ...