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Forest Stewardship Council Fails to Protect Strzelecki Rainforest
February 20, 2014
August 13 2013 PRESS RELEASE Environmental organisations Friends of the Earth and Friends of Gippsland Bush today released a detailed case study investigating the impacts of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification on the rainforests...
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Red Gum protestors vindicated - NSW logging is illegal
February 20, 2014
Five months ago Friends of the Earth joined the Yorta Yorta people and Red Gum Forest Action in a protest that stopped logging in the Millewa State Forest for ten days. We took this...
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Victorian red gum national parks legislation passed
February 20, 2014
Legislation passed by the Victorian Parliament last night created almost 100,000 hectares of new River Red Gum National Parks from Lake Hume to the South Australian border. And in a state first, the legislation...
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