Latest news on forests

To mark National Threatened Species day, Friends of the Earth Melbourne has released a report documenting 27 unlawful native forest logging operations in protected threatened species habitat and rainforest.  These logging operations have occurred...

Join us on Threatened Species Day to call on the Victorian parliament to protect our threatened wildlife from logging. Thursday September 7, 5.30pm – 8.30pm. Parliament House, Melbourne.

The state owned logging agency VicForests has moved logging machinery out of the contentious Hermitage Creek forests where a significant population of threatened Greater Gliders has been found.

Logging in the controversial "Kings" coupe at Hermitage Creek in the Toolangi state forest has been stalled for now. The forest is home to a colony of threatened Greater Gliders. Friends of the Earth...

The Toolangi community and forest conservationists are celebrating the exit of logging machines from forest next to Tanglefoot picnic ground, and the removal of a logging coupe within the Valley of Giants from VicForests...

The Andrew’s government’s announcement that it will purchase the ailing ASH timber mill in the Gippsland town of Heyfield will come at a massive cost to tax payers and the environment, Friends of the...

Recent logging in the Acheron forests north of Warburton has severely impacted on a large population of protected greater gliders.  Greater gliders are Australia’s largest gliding marsupial and Victoria’s latest threatened species. Last month...

VicForests has just started logging in the ‘Floater’ coupe near Toolangi, to the north east of Melbourne in the Central Highlands. Earlier this week, volunteer surveyors from Wildlife of the Central Highlands (WOTCH) recorded...

Friends of the Earth’s River Country Campaign and local Friends of Nyah-Vinifera Forest group alongside Wadi Wadi Traditional Owners have collaborated and received a Threatened Species Grant from the Victorian Department of Environment, Land...

Environmental organisation Friends of the Earth has raised concerns regarding the logging and sale of plantation land in the Fernbank region of East Gippsland. The bluegum plantations were established between 2005 and 2009 by...