Mix logging, high rainfall puddles from giant machinery,
get potentially life-threatening mosquito-borne diseases.
(Murray Valley encephalitis , Ross River viruses and Japanese encephalitis) >>
https://theconversation.com/mozzies-may-be-carrying-japanese-encephalitis-this-summer-heres-what-to-know-if-youre-spending-time-outdoors-246781

Malaria moves in behind the loggers >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/30/environment.climatechange
#NSW #mosquitoes #encephalitis #deforestation #LoggingImpacts #roads #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging #FCNSW #harm #pathogens #encephalitis #OneHealth #LandUseChanges

Logging in forest earmarked for koala national park increasing under NSW Labor, analysis finds
“Far from protecting the great koala national park, they are accelerating its degradation."

"Logging of native forest in the proposed great koala national park (GKNP) in northern New South Wales has intensified since the Minns government took office, according to new analysis by conservation advocates."

The report, which the state’s forestry corporation disputes, found 7,185 hectares (17,700 acres) were logged within the promised park in the 21 months since the March 2023 state election. Dailan Pugh, the president of the North East Forest Alliance, said this was about 8.4% of the area identified for potential logging and included habitat for endangered koalas and another 37 threatened species....They’re still logging areas they’ve identified as high density for koalas,” Pugh said."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/13/logging-in-forest-earmarked-for-koala-national-park-increasing-under-nsw-labor-analysis-finds
#TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #degradation #NSWLogging #FCNSW #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #koalas #gliders #biodiversity #governance #StopLoggingKoalaHabitat

One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction

"Prevalent threats include pollution, dams and water extraction, agriculture and invasive species, with overharvesting also driving extinctions."
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Sayer, C.A., Fernando, E., Jimenez, R.R. et al. One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08375-z
#water #extractivism #pollution #extinction #wetland #rivers #governance #GBF #conservation #Biodiversity #wildlife #dragonflies #odonata #insects #LoggingImpacts #agriculture #aquaculture #degradation #herbicides #pesticides #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging

How a mayor beat the loggers to turn the place green again
Could Bellingen become a “green municipality”?

"A region battered by predatory logging and ranching...With its forest-gobbling ranchers, bootleg loggers and dodgy sawmill operators, this sprawling township the size of Israel was a big red flag."

“For decades, Paragominas was one of the Amazon’s epicentres of deforestation and timber extraction. That changed in 2008, with the municipal environmental pact, which reduced deforestation by 80%,” says Beto Veríssimo, co-founder of Imazon, a rainforest-based thinktank. ..Controlling deforestation turned the township into a magnet for investment and economic growth.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/07/brazil-amazon-paragominas-deforestation-landgrabs-shootouts-logging-slash-burn-farming-green-sustainability
#deforestation #LoggingImpacts #BellingenLogging #Gleniffer #Amazon #biodiversity #NativeForests #FrontierCommunity #logging #slashandburn #NSWLogging #FarrRight #governance

Drone locates 20 koalas in forest due to be logged next year

"A thermal drone imaging survey has been conducted over a plantation within the Great Koala National Park footprint. 20 koalas were detected over two nights at Tuckers Nob State Forest, which is due to be logged in the New Year."

The so called 'plantations' are more like native forests. Tuckers Nob forest must be included in the great koala national park. Video>>
https://www.nbnnews.com.au/2024/12/18/drone-locates-20-koalas-in-forest-due-to-be-logged-next-year/
#LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #koalas #SaveTuckersNob #Bellingen #Gleniffer #plantations #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #conservation #drones #RadioTelemetry #FCNSW #destruction

As they are logging and clear-cutting the koala forests around Bellingen

"While local perspectives can be misleading, from a global perspective, clear-cutting and clear-cutting-like interventions are endangering the climate and biodiversity. Allowing trees to age, preserving deadwood, and allowing natural regeneration with adapted game populations would have a positive effect on the climate and help mitigate forest damage. This would be active climate and biodiversity protection and should be promoted politically."

"Politicians have a duty to achieve the climate targets and to impose clear obligations on enterprises."

"Businesses, including the forestry and timber industry, are well-informed about the climate and biodiversity crises and must be held accountable for faulty conduct."

"The containment of environmental crime immediately needs clear laws with effective enforcement. Short-sighted economic activities at the expense of future generations and beyond planetary capacities should be made illegal and punished."

"No more delaying, no more wait-and see, no more blame-shifting, no more beating around the bush—we need ambitious action in the right direction. Compliance with the Paris Climate Agreement is the narrow pathway into a future that might resemble the present. Will and efforts to preserve the climate and biodiversity roughly as we know them must be significantly strengthened. Reliable goals and ways of achieving climate neutrality as quickly as possible are the political order of the day. Forests should be no longer the third largest carbon emitter, but part of the solution that would reduce our current emission by around 15%."

Open Access Book >
Stop Rainforest Deforestation
The Most Urgent Way of Combining Climate and Species Protection
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-58144-1_6
#deforestation #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #extinction #biodiversity #destruction #pesticides #soil #water #laws #crime #NativeForests #plantations #RemnantVegetation #climate #extractivism

NSW's native forest logging industry ruled not 'economically viable'.

"The recommendation was made by the NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) in its triennial analysis of the government-owned logging company Forestry Corporation of NSW."

"It found Forestry Corporation's native timber operation had been steadily losing money over the past decade, in part due to delivering timber to sawmills for less than the cost of providing it."

"It also noted concerns about logging making bushfires worse and damaging threatened species' habitat."

"The revelation comes the same week that Forestry Corporation released its annual report, which shows it suffered a $29 million loss in its native logging division in the 2022-2023 financial year. Studies have suggested shutting the industry could bring net economic benefits to the economy"
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/nsw-native-forest-logging-not-economically-viable-report-finds/104721248
#NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #degradation #biodiversity #harm #ClimateBreakdown #wildlife #koalas #plantations #StopLoggingKoalaHabitat #bushfires #risks #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #destruction

Koala deaths though road and highway crashes

“There were five koala deaths on this section of the Bruxner Highway in August alone and any protection measure we can take to reduce that toll is worth taking. A section of the highway between Lismore and Casino will have the speed reduced from 100km to 80km in a bid to reduce koala deaths...Members of the public regularly call us about koalas in roadside trees, which causes sleepless nights wondering if they will be the next ones hit that we have to pick up.”

There seems to be a lack of impact data on the 'dispersed' koalas of the 'upgraded' Gleniffer 'Highway' through the industrially logged forests of Bellingen/Gleniffer. The 50s mobility design has achieved its goal, more traffic is speeding now. Meanwhile, photos proliferate of 'koalas in roadside trees'.
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https://indynr.com/speed-zone-change-on-bruxner-highway-will-reduce-koala-deaths/
#koalas #wildlife #MobilityDesign #roads #cars #roadkill #DeathHotspots #speed #GlenifferRoad #speeding #BellingenLogging #Bellingen #Gleniffer #conservation #MembersOfThePublic

Koala Zone paint on the roads and hope everyone will slow down on the roads

Five Koalas have been hit on Broken Head Road this year, and many more in other Koala hot spots across the Byron Shire.

The Koala Zone "signs were funded by a grant from the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy and Environment, under the NSW Koala Strategy. Koala road strikes and driver speed will be monitored at the sites over the next four years to help us to understand the impacts of vehicle-activated signs on driver speeds and koalas."

Is Bellingen Shire 'asleep on the wheel' while industrial logging is driving koalas out of their habitat?
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https://www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Council/News/Media-releases/New-Koala-Zones-to-help-our-furry-friends
#koalas #roads #roadkill #BellingenShire #BellingenLogging #GlenifferRoad #cars #speed #extinction makers #BiodiversityCrisis #NSW

End the destruction of native forests by logging now

"Pressure is mounting on the NSW government to end its logging of the proposed Great Koala National Park immediately. Logging by the government-owned Forestry Corporation inside its proposed boundaries has intensified...Native state forests are public assets belonging to everyone in our state..."
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https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/this-activity-is-a-real-threat-mps-piling-on-pressure-over-state-s-koala-park-promise-20241113-p5kqad.html ($ wall)
#LoggingImpacts #loggingIndustry #NSW #NSWLogging #BiodiversityCrisis #FCNSW #MidNorthCoast #BellingenLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #koalas #governance #ResourceFrontiers #SacrificeZone

Where there’s logging, there’s fire
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/as-logging-intensifies-forest-fires-wetsuweten-fight-to-protect-old-growth/
#bushfires #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging #risks #harm #SaveTuckersNob

Can ending native forest logging help the climate?
Ending native forest logging would help Australia’s climate goals much more than planting trees

"Logging bans are important – but no substitute for ending oil and gas.
Net zero: deep, rapid, sustained cuts needed.
Carbon accounting needs more clarity."

"Deforestation and degradation by humans is likely to send global warming past 1.5°C, even if we achieve net-zero fossil fuel emissions. Protecting native forests is a critical way to prevent emissions, which must be achieved in parallel with a rapid transition to clean energy."

"Australia is still logging native forests. Extensive land clearing continues for agriculture and urban development, as well as native forest harvesting on private land. In New South Wales, the government is looking into proposals for a Great Koala National Park, which would bring together state forests from the Clarence Valley to south of Coffs Harbour. But with no decision yet made, logging continues along both the north and south coasts, which were also hard hit by the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20."

"If we compare forests protected for conservation with those harvested for commodity production in the Victorian Central Highlands, research shows conservation delivers the greatest climate benefits through continued forest growth and accumulating carbon stocks."

Carbon accounting >>
https://theconversation.com/ending-native-forest-logging-would-help-australias-climate-goals-much-more-than-planting-trees-229487
#deforestation #FossilFuels #DeforestationHotspot #NSW #extractivism #degradation #extinction #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #loggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #OldGrowthForests #biodiversity #koalas #conservation #ClimateEmergency #bushfires #ExtremeHeat

Politicians turning Australia into wildlife graveyard

"At a time when the natural world is under siege, the lack of any substantive action, given the current status of Australian biodiversity with ongoing losses caused by native forest logging, is bordering on criminal."

Politicians ignore intergenerational equity and the precautionary principle — otherwise, there would be immediate action in response to the tsunami of threats facing the Australian environment. Federal legislation is a farce, with the forestry industries given a free pass on protecting forest fauna and flora.

"NSW, Labor’s promised Great Koala National Park is being logged to the ground. The Minns Government is dedicated to ignoring scientific warnings, public protest and the loss of ecosystems catastrophic biodiversity losses."

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/politicians-turning-australia-into-wildlife-graveyard,18888
#biodiversity #extinction #wildlife #loggingIndustry #FCNSW #BellingenLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SettlerSociety #ecocide #Australia

"Between 2000 and 2022, NSW logged approximately 435,000 ha of native forest and woodland, all of which overlapped with the distributions of at least one threatened forest-dependent taxon."

"While logging in NSW has degraded 435,000 ha of native forest across 143 threatened taxa distributions, logging is still legal under current legislation."
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https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.13185
#biodiversity #ShiftingBaselines #ThreatenedSpecies #NSWLogging #FCNSW #LoggingIndustry #deforestation #degradation #harm #fires #roads #SettlerSociety #BellingenLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #ExtinctionCrisis #EPBCAct #EUDR