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Hands off the Tasmanian World Heritage Area
February 24, 2015
FoE Info night. The Tasmanian Liberal Government are planning to allow logging, private accommodation and up to 16 aircraft landing sites in the iconic Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. The natural and cultural values of this...
Read More Add your reaction ShareForestry Council Chair must reject national park logging
December 11, 2014
Friends of the Earth has urged Federal Forest Industry Advisory Council Chair Rob de Fegely to reject calls for logging in national parks, as he tours red gum forests in the NSW Riverina this...
Read More Add your reaction ShareGreat Forest National Park - A playground for Melbourne
November 14, 2014
Friends of the Earth has joined more than 30 environment, conservation, recreation, scientific and citizen science groups to call on all political parties and candidates in the lead-up to the November 2014 Victorian election...
Read More Add your reaction ShareVictoria pulls out of national park logging trial – NSW should follow
October 23, 2014
Media Release, 23rd October, 2014 Friends of the Earth can announce today that the Victorian Government has withdrawn from a controversial logging trial planned for the Barmah National Park, part of the world’s largest...
Read More Add your reaction ShareNational Park logging call is risky, unproven and unpopular
October 02, 2014
Environment group Friends of the Earth has condemned a call by NSW logging interests to open iconic River Red Gum national parks for commercial timber harvesting. The NSW Forest Industries Taskforce and a local...
Read More Add your reaction ShareNational Parks need funding, not logging
August 01, 2014
National Parks should be safe from logging right? Well, not if Coalition governments in NSW and Victoria have their way. The Barmah - Millewa Red Gum national park is under threat from a 'scientific...
Read More Add your reaction ShareNational Park logging canned - now to stop 'ecological thinning'
February 20, 2014
The New South Wales Government has rejected the recommendations of an Upper House enquiry that called for logging in National Parks. However, their response leaves the door open for 'scientific' trials that could still see commercial...
Read More Add your reaction ShareLittle Red Toolangi Treehouse shines light on plight of Leadbeater’s Possum
February 20, 2014
Tomorrow at 12 noon Hannah Patchett will formally launch her time dwelling in Toolangi’s treetops. The Little Red Toolangi Treehouse has been built 50 metres up into the canopy of an area of forest...
Read More Add your reaction ShareThe Extinction crisis – and the environment policy no-show
February 20, 2014
Just two days out from the federal election, and with no sign of a comprehensive biodiversity or environment policy from either Prime Minister Rudd or Tony Abbott, threatened species habitat continues to fall to...
Read More Add your reaction Sharebio-fuels: the new threat to native forests
February 20, 2014
It’s the next wave of destruction for our native forests. The forestry and energy industries are now poised to unleash their plans to feed our forests into furnaces to produce electricity, convert them into...
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