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NSW Red Gums in jeopardy
February 20, 2014
7th December 2009 Last Thursday, in his last hours as NSW Premier, Nathan Rees made an historic announcement - after a year of controversy over illegal logging, the NSW government would protect the state's...
Read More Add your reaction ShareRed 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...
Read More Add your reaction ShareVictorian 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...
Read More Add your reaction ShareLast chance for NSW Red Gums - Submissions urgently needed by October 23rd
February 20, 2014
The NSW Natural Resources Commission (NRC) has delivered a flawed Preliminary Report into NSW red gum forests. It is now urgent that the community respond with submissions calling for Jointly Managed National Parks and...
Read More Add your reaction ShareBreakthrough for NSW Red Gum Forests
February 20, 2014
More than a year after the Victorian Government declared the beginning of a new era for our River Red Gum forests through the creation of new national parks the NSW Government is finally catching...
Read More Add your reaction ShareYorta Yorta walk-in stops logging in Millewa Forest
February 20, 2014
19th June 2009 Yorta Yorta people organised another protest against illegal logging in the Millewa Forest today. Exercising their inherent rights to Country, Yorta Yorta Traditional Owners led a "community walk-in" to the site...
Read More Add your reaction ShareMillewa Forest Protests - Update
February 20, 2014
11th June 2009 Yesterday police and forestry officers forced protesters out of the Millewa Forest where they had stopped an illegal logging operation for ten days. Despite the peaceful nature of the protest and...
Read More Add your reaction ShareProtest Stops Logging in Millewa Forest
February 20, 2014
This morning over twenty people from Yorta Yorta Nation, Red Gum Forest Action and Friends of the Earth peacefully stopped an illegal logging operation in the Millewa red gum wetlands on the Murray River...
Read More Add your reaction ShareHistoric Decision Protects Victorian Red Gum
February 20, 2014
30th December 2008 Today, Victorian Premier John Brumby made history by committing to protect 95,000ha of Murray River Red Gum forests, and create the state’s first co-managed National Parks. The Brumby government has taken...
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