Last Wednesday NEFA agreed to call off an action in Gibberagee State Forest (near Whiporie) in return for the Forestry Corporation's promise that within a week a joint inspection with NEFA, and the EPA if they agreed, would be undertaken to inspect the breaches NEFA had documented, now the Forestry Corporation have reneged and refuse to grant access for NEFA to the closed area at Gibberagee to show either the EPA or themselves the breaches.

"The Forestry Corporation cannot be trusted to honour their word. This breach of trust will not be forgotten", said NEFA spokesperson Dailan Pugh.

"NEFA considers it outrageous that we are once again denied the chance to show these Government bodies the numerous breaches of the Threatened Species Licence we have found.

"What concerns us most is that based on past experience the illegal logging will continue unabated while the EPA waits for years before verifying our complaints and at best giving the Forestry Corporation meaningless warning letters and cautions.

"Our intervention this time was aimed at trying to highlight the problems to bring this ongoing illegal logging to an end, while ensuring that the Koalas and 8 threatened hollow-dependent animals in the area get the minimal protection they are legally entitled to.

"This attempt has obviously failed", Mr. Pugh said.

Dailan Pugh reaches an understanding with Forestry Corp... that they have now reneged on!

Forest protector and forest friend. Animls like the Yellow-bellied Glider need old forests with tree hollows to nest in.

October 2022 Opportunity!

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Submissions Guide Round 2 for the Redbank Power Station

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Writing On the Wall For Wood-fired Power Stations.

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

Forest Values

• Natural Values
• Carbon Storage
• Water Yields
• Community Interest
• Recreational Use
• Reserves

Forest Issues

• Logging Dieback
• Climate Change
• Koalas
• Cable Logging
• Logging Prescriptions
• Forest Slaughter
• Old Trees
• Logging Industry
• World Heritage
• Impacts of Grazing
• Fire

Chaelundi 30 years on

• Recollections of legal and political efforts here
• Academic Papers here
• Chaelundi in the Commons Library "Blockades That Changed Australia"
• Great Album of Photos here

Forest Surveys

• Post-Logging Audit Guide