With the shut-down of paper mills it feels like there is a real chance of ending native forest logging in Victoria.

I've just called the Premier's office and left a message asking for a halt to native forest logging and a just transition for workers. You can call on 03 9651 5000.

#NativeForestLogging #VicForests #DanielAndrews #VictorianForests #VictorianForestAlliance #VFA

On @InThoseDays podcast we discussed the gliders court case with Felicity Law. This case was a big win for small community environment groups Kinglake Friends of the Forest, Gippsland Environment Group and Environment East Gippsland @KinglakeForest

VicForests is now required to properly survey forest before logging and protect glider habitat if they are found.

It could mean the end of native forest logging in Victoria and someone could make a movie about it, I reckon.

You can read more here: https://eastgippsland.net.au/eeg-media-releases/gliders-receive-court-protection-vicforests-found-to-have-broken-the-law/

And listen to Felicity here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5luP9loWl0MMcCIoNzl3q3

#GreaterGliders #VicForests #NativeForestLogging

On @InThoseDays we spoke to my cousin Felicity Law who has been involved in forest activism and the very successful greater glider court case in Victoria.

We looked back into the newspaper archives to see that threats to greater gliders from habitat loss was understood decades ago.

We no longer call them flying squirrels but VicForests is still cutting down their habitat.

https://podcasts.apple.com/sa/podcast/giving-a-flying-phalanger/id1558781853?i=1000593629883

#VicForests #GreaterGliders #NativeForestLogging #NewspaperArchives #Trove

We've all been waiting for VicForests' Annual Report and, Happy Christmas, it's finally here.

I thought it would be a bad result for them, but it is much worse than I anticipated.

"VicForests returned a net loss from continuing operations after tax of $54.2 million (2021: $4.7 million)."

This is AFTER receiving $25 million from the Victorian Government.

It makes no economic sense to continue this industry any longer.

https://www.vicforests.com.au/static/uploads/files/vf-annual-report-2022-final-201222-wfjdjhwlojpk.pdf

#VicForests #NativeLogging #StopNativeLogging #JustTransition

RT @FriendsBats@twitter.com

Plans by #VicForests to cut down the forests around Mount Stirling in the state's NE are on hold thanks to the Gliders case win! The judgment applies everywhere! "...VicForests is not currently conducting (logging) operations in all Forest Management areas across Victoria."

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FriendsBats/status/1600372113856086016

@Coho There will be similarly harsh sentences for people protesting native forest logging in Victoria next year. I am pretty motivated to stand up to it.

#NativeForestLogging #VicForests

RT @eastgippyforest@twitter.com

Incredible news yesterday! Justice Ginnane granted interlocutory orders for Gippsland RFA as per EEG & KFF (11th Nov) case. This means that #VicForests must survey for and protect Greater Gliders and Yellow-bellied Gliders!! Well done @GEG_2022@twitter.com!! Awesome outcome.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/eastgippyforest/status/1598275827040673794

RT @GEG_2022@twitter.com

BREAKING NEWS! Greater Gliders & Yellow-bellied Gliders now protected in Gippsland RFAs as per KFF/EEG 11 Nov. Interlocutory orders granted by J Ginnane today. #VicForests must survey & protect GG & YBG. Thanks legal team!
pix Lisa Roberts, GGs Mt Alfred #GunaiKurnaiCountry 07/22

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GEG_2022/status/1597821195499761664

RT @GEG_2022@twitter.com

Why did @DELWP_Vic@twitter.com delay releasing the report till Oct 22? So much majestic glider forest was (illegally) clearfelled with #DELWP knowledge... and taxpayers paid #Vicforests to do this!! ... putting rare endangered species at further risk, for what? For who? Who's making th $$?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GEG_2022/status/1595920245377552386

RT @GEG_2022@twitter.com

https://www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/glider_zones_logged_before_being_protected
The fact #VicForests logged new greater glider protection areas before they were gazetted shows @DELWP_Vic@twitter.com's appalling ineptitude & mismanagement
& #VicForests utter disregard for forest biodiversity.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GEG_2022/status/1595920238415003649

RT @FriendsBats@twitter.com

#GunnaiKurnaiCountry Glider protection areas set aside by the Gov have already been logged by #VicForests in Swifts Creek, Nunniong and the Colquhoun forest in East Gippsland, as well as areas in Mansfield and Baw Baw in the Central Highlands #VoteClimateVoteForests

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FriendsBats/status/1595956678654300160

I've just called the Victorian Premier's office about native forest logging. I used the info provided by Environmental Justice Australia.

After VicForest's recent court losses the government needs to choose whether to weaken environmental protections further, or end native forest logging and start the just transition for workers.

The Premier's office said they'd had "a number" of calls, so let's try to make the number as high as possible.

#NativeForestLogging #VicPol #JustTransition #VicForests

https://envirojustice.org.au/blog/onlineaction/call-premier-andrews-for-native-forests/

Another report released about why native forest logging doesn't make sense. This time it's from a right-leaning think-tank Blueprint Institute.

This AFR article about the report contains some of the best anti-native logging quotes I've ever read!

This might be my favourite: "The native logging industry is propped up by government to protect an ever-decreasing number of jobs and placate misguided pressure from vested interests."

#NativeForestLogging #VicForests #NativeForest #VictorianForests

https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/logging-native-forests-in-victoria-costs-more-money-than-it-makes-20221114-p5by4s

I'm impressed with this ABC article on old growth forest logging in Victoria by Michael Slezak.

The maps and graphics distill what can be an abstract and complicated discussion into a very clear picture of destruction.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-13/our-vanishing-old-growth-forests/101641964

#NativeForestLogging #VicForests #OldGrowth #Journalism

Apparently The Weekly Times has reported that #VicForests will issue a stand-down for all #NativeForest logging in Victoria this morning. Confused about whether this is great news or just an election tactic (or both). Am awaiting more info from the brilliant @mikiperkins!

#Introduction. I write books for young people - published by University of Queensland Press.

I've just finished a qualification in Information Management and would like to work in a public library. I love the National Library of Australia's digital archive Trove and have a podcast called In Those Days discussing newspaper articles that have a personal connection to a guest.

I try to mention the climate crisis a fair bit on social media. I'm particularly interested in the extent of fossil fuel sponsorships in Australia and how these extend social license.

I support campaigns to end native forest logging in Victoria.

I often analyse people through the prism of what netball position they play, or which BSC member they are most like. If I'm honest, I am a WD and a Mallory.

#ClimateAction #MiddleGrade #KidLit #AusLit #FossilAdBan #FossilFuelSponsorship #NativeForestLogging #VicForests #VictorianForests #Trove #GreaterGliders #NationalLibraryofAustralia #NLA #BSC #Netball