The new NSW Coastal IFOA is a plan to legalise wholesale destruction of forest biodiversity for a huge experiment in “regeneration forestry” that will remove all vegetation, expose the soil, incinerate anything and everything remaining after clear fell harvest, retaining only seed trees of the preferred eucalyptus species for the next crop of trees that, while growing will result in depletion of the available water in our catchments and increase catastrophic bushfire hazards across the landscape.

Make no mistake … this is not ecologically sustainable forest management. The new Coastal IFOA is a grab for every stick of available timber at the expense of our natural heritage. The intention is clearly to eradicate wildlife entirely to make public forests the property of corporate interests. The cumulative negative impacts of the current native forestry regime (auspiced by the RFA’s) have been swept under the mat to avoid any public scrutiny.


Our native forest habitats must not be sacrificed for short term industry complacency.

Gregory Hall