Latest news on forests
'the places humanity must not destroy to avoid climate chaos'
December 09, 2021
Detailed new mapping has pinpointed the carbon-rich forests and peatlands that humanity cannot afford to destroy if climate catastrophe is to be avoided. The vast forests and peatlands of Russia, Canada and the US...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareClimate change and the rise of the mega fire
December 01, 2021
New research by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, shows that climate change has driven a ‘significant increase’ in Australia’s forest fire activity over the last three decades. A lengthening of the fire season towards...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareNew report exposes VicForests' failure to regrow forests.
November 30, 2021
A damning new report has revealed Victoria’s state-owned logging agency, VicForests, is failing to regrow native forests after logging. Watch the video, read the report & share with your local MP below.
Read More 1 Reaction ShareSnow Gums and Citizen Science
November 05, 2021
Snow Gums face a massive threat from the spread of dieback which is caused by a native beetle – and super charged by climate change, and localised collapse of snow gum woodlands due to...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareOur forests are under attack – join us for an urgent webinar
July 27, 2021
The Victorian environment minister’s office has refused to extend public consultation on alarming changes that would significantly deregulate logging in Victoria’s native forests and undermine community legal challenges to perceived illegal logging. Join us...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareAlberton West State Forest Targeted by VicForests
July 18, 2021
Local residents near the Yarram region in South Gippsland have recently been dismayed that their beloved local forest, Alberton West State Forest, has been earmarked by VicForests for logging. Local residents have protested the...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareIndigenous Elder Stresses Importance of Snobs Creek
April 29, 2021
At a recent meeting with Friends of the Earth, Taungurung Nira-Balluck Elder, Uncle Larry Walsh highlighted concerns over clearfelling of his traditional country by VicForests. Several coupes have already been cut in the Snobs...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareA logging road in the Alpine National Park?
April 06, 2021
The state government logging agency, VicForests, intends to log a total of 11 “coupes”, or sections, of mature forest, much of it dominated by Alpine Ash, in the headwaters of the Little Dargo River,...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareWhy save Snobs Creek and the Rubicon Forest?
March 19, 2021
Dr. Lea Jellinek: ‘Why we need to Save the Rubicon Forest?’ at the Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday St, Carlton for 7 - 9:30pm, Wed 14 April 2021. You are invited to come with Lea...
Read More 1 Reaction ShareCreating an extended Snobs Creek Wildlife Reserve for nature based tourism
February 15, 2021
The Central Highlands, to the east and north east of Melbourne are an incredible biodiversity hotspot, with varied landscapes, beautiful rivers, and heavily treed mountains with forests of Mountain Ash and remnants of cool...
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