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Destruction of Australia's National Icon - the Koala
On September 11, 2023, the Australian Government plans to strike at the very heart of our Nation – the rich koala habitat at the core of the proposed Great Koala National Park.
https://www.change.org/p/destruction-of-australia-s-national-icon-the-koala?source_location=search
#StopLogging #NativeForests #NSW #MidNorthCoast #BellingenLogging #biodiversity #GreatKoalaNationalPark #Koalas #petition #SaveTuckersNob

International botanists 'so shocked' after tour of the Great Koala National Park
The future Great Koala National Park has been toured by the world's leading botanists, and they are concerned.

The experts are in the region for an International vegetation conference, but ahead of the event they spent days walking through local state forests.

Professor Helge Bruelheide, Professor of Geobotany at the University of Halle in Germany said logging should 'stop immediately'.

Stop logging right now!

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/coffscoast-breakfast/international-botanist/102810426
#botany #Australia #Bruelheide #ReputationalDamage #ClearFelling #ClearCut #LoggingIndustry #DevelopingNation #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging #climate #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #RemnantVegetation #biodiversity #koalas #nature

Local forests are being destroyed by logging
Join the direct action training
Civil disobedience
Resist extinction makers
Resist climate vandals
Stop logging native forests
#CivilDisobedience #resistance #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #vandalism #biodiversity #climate

Monopolising and overusing residential roads for the purpose of industrial extraction.

For over half a year they made a highway out of the scenic Gleniffer Road so that the forest ' stuff' can be extracted and monetised before all that 'bush' is possibly declared a Koala National Park.

When Gleniffer Road was closed and traffic went along Roses Rd., the steep and bendy road was smashed into bits by overuse in the last seven month.

Almost on a daily basis various fossil fuel trucks and machinery patch the damage with small fossil fuel 'bandages' and widen the shoulders so that they can accommodate the machinery of (forest) destruction.

Stop logging native forests
Stop logging the homes of biodiversity

#GlenifferRoad #RosesRoad #BellingenLogging #forests #NativeForests #LoggingImpacts #roads #Bellingen #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #climate #FossilFuel

Killer logging fires might just shorten your life
Increased traffic, dust
Road building machinery powered by fossil fuel
Heavy logging machines spewing fossil fuel exhaust
Repeated forest slash and burn fires with lingering smoke for months and months.
A dryer forest more prone to catch fire and accelerate climate disruption.

"Respiratory experts have called on the EU to lower its regulatory limits for air pollution in line with the World Health Organization (WHO)."

"They added that the impact of the climate emergency and human health had become interlinked and was now “irreversible”. An increase in pollen and other allergens as well as wildfires, dust storms and fossil fuel-based traffic all worsen existing respiratory conditions or can create new ones, the authors wrote in the peer-reviewed paper."

"Air pollution is estimated to have killed 6.7 million people globally in 2019 and 373,000 in Europe, with greenhouse gases and air pollution sharing many of the same sources."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/04/climate-crisis-poses-greatest-risk-to-people-with-respiratory-illnesses-experts-warn
#air #pollution #fires #smoke #logging #NSW #forests #SaveTuckersNob #FossilFuel #traffic #machinery #ForestryCorporation #BellingenLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark

Logging koala habitat in Bellingen
#SaveTuckersNob #NSW #logging #NativeForests #BellingenLogging #biodiversity

The "smash-and-grab operations" in the Great Koala National Park

"One of the reasons the Victorian industry was eventually closed was because citizen scientists proved the state loggers were not properly protecting greater gliders. The failures cost VicForests millions of dollars in fines and access to forests it needed".

"As the legal challenges wind their way through the courts, the NCC is about to ramp up the pressure by announcing the creation of B r e a c h w a t c h , a network of volunteers trained and equipped to monitor, record and report evidence of Forestry Corp breaches".
https://www.watoday.com.au/environment/conservation/minds-were-blown-these-scientists-were-stunned-at-what-s-happening-on-the-nsw-north-coast-20230831-p5e11w.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other

Breach Watch website
https://www.breachwatch.org.au/
You can help identify threatened species and expose planned illegal logging

Identify a forest scheduled for logging
A citizen science project to protect forests, Nature Conservation Council
https://assets.nationbuilder.com/natureorg/pages/4186/attachments/original/1693443382/BREACH_WATCH_HANDBOOK-FINAL-2.pdf?1693443382

#StopLogging #NativeForests #NSW #FCNSW #BellingenLogging #SmashAndGrab #sousveillance #breachwatch #SaveTuckersNob #GreatKoalaNationalPark #GNKP #koalas #climate #biodiversity

‘Minds were blown’: These scientists were stunned at what’s happening on the NSW North Coast

“This means Forestry Corporation NSW plans to log three times more compartments of state forest within the proposed Great Koala National Park over the next year than they did over the last two years combined"

“It is spectacular. All the variants of this Gondwana rainforest – cool and warm, temperate rainforest and also the subtropical rainforest – is something that is so unique globally that you wouldn’t find it in this particular combination elsewhere... Professor Helge Bruelheide, professor of botany at the University of Helle in Germany, was stunned by what he has seen exploring the forests in and around the promised Great Koala National Park on the state’s North Coast this week."

“The tempo, the scale, the intensity of logging has all ramped up since labour was elected. It is a pillage. It’s a smash-and-grab operation by a loss-making Crown corporation. They are jamming boiled lollies in their mouth as they bolt down the street,” say Graham, who feels let down by Labor."

"One of the reasons the Victorian industry was eventually closed was because citizen scientists proved the state loggers were not properly protecting greater gliders. The failures cost VicForests millions of dollars in fines and access to forests it needed."

"As the legal challenges wind their way through the courts, the NCC is about to ramp up the pressure by announcing the creation of Breachwatch, a network of volunteers trained and equipped to monitor, record and report evidence of Forestry Corp breaches."
Must read in full>

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/minds-were-blown-these-scientists-were-stunned-at-what-s-happening-on-the-nsw-north-coast-20230831-p5e11w.html
#GreatKoalaNationalPark #GNKP #Gondwana #rainforest #botany #So50s #LoggingIndustry #NSW #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #pillage #Moonpar #Boambee #Orara #koalas #biodiversity #climate #StopLogging

The logging industry and The Great Koala National Park

"The days of hand tools have given way to heavy machinery that tears through the landscape in pursuit of trees. Vast hectares are now stripped down to bare soil. These 40-tonne machines compact the dry ground, hindering the forest's natural growth, healing and regeneration."

"There is also the unseen financial burden carried by Australians through taxes. According to the NSW Forestry Corporation's (2021-22) annual report, logging native forests not only threatens species on the brink of extinction but also costs taxpayers millions. The report reveals NSW taxpayers unknowingly fund the felling of forests the public wishes to protect, making this practice not only environmentally but also economically unsustainable.'

Excerpt>
https://mashable.com/article/for-the-trees-a-quest-to-protect-australias-forests
#tourism #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #FossilFuel #machinery #climate #biodiversity #extinction makers

The Great Koala National Park without any Koalas

"The proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP) on the NSW Mid North Coast between Kempsey, Grafton and Armidale is home to 1 in 5 of the wild Koalas in New South Wales".
An excellent overview by Mark Graham >

https://1earthmedia.com/the-great-koala-national-park-without-any-koalas/
#GKNP #logging #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #Kalang #NambuccaRiver #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #water #biodiversity #extinction makers

The forest ecology alliance has a forest embassy in Bellingen
forestecologyalliance@gmail.com
#NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #logging #SaveTheKalang #Bellingen

‘Back the chainsaws’: Albo slammed amid calls to end decades-long ‘damaging’ forest logging

“Over 90 per cent of native forest that is logged in NSW is pulped and sent overseas to be used in woodchips and cardboard.”

“The NSW government has been covering the losses of the native forest logging industry for nearly a decade. It is not a profitable industry; in the past two years alone, $29 million of taxpayer money was spent subsidising native forest logging".

"...The NSW government's audit office found FCNSW did not consistently monitor compliance of its contractors or assess risks."

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/back-the-chainsaws-albo-slammed-amid-calls-to-end-decadeslong-damaging-forest-logging/news-story/0add77f23b869ae6edfe91dba712581a
#FCNSW #StateForests #LoggingIndustry #subsidies #NSW #compliance #outsource #risks #WorthMoreStanding #BellingenLogging #NewryStateForest #NativeForests #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity #climate

Rivers in the Sky: How Deforestation Is Affecting Global Water Cycles

"The water that a single tree transpires daily has a cooling effect equivalent to two domestic air conditioners for a day."

"Forests moderate local climate by keeping their local environments cool. They do this partly by shading the land, but also by releasing moisture from their leaves. This process, called transpiration, requires energy, which is extracted from the surrounding air, thus cooling it. A single tree can transpire hundreds of liters of water in a day. Each hundred liters has a cooling effect equivalent to two domestic air conditioners for a day..."

https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-deforestation-affecting-global-water-cycles-climate-change
#Forests #deforestation #logging #Australia #NSW #BellingenLogging #GNKP #trees #biodiversity #climate #Droughts #bushfires #risks

Australia’s environment must be given legal priority over land-clearing and logging to survive, Ken Henry

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/25/dr-ken-henry-environment-land-clearing-logging
#logging #NativeForest #StopLogging #NSW #BellingenLogging #NewryStateForest #TuckersNobStateForest #biodiversity #climate

Half of species under threat in NSW are on course to become extinct in next 100 years

Stop Logging and land clearing!

The review "found n a t i v e f o r e s t l o g g i n g was damaging f o r e s t e c o s y s t e m s and the habitat of native species and was scathing of the state’s offset scheme."

"Laws meant to protect the environment in New South Wales are failing and unlikely to ever succeed unless substantially changed, according to a scathing review that warns half of the species under threat in the state are on course to become extinct within the next 100 years."

"The independent review of the Biodiversity Conservation Act, released on Thursday, makes 58 recommendations to overhaul nature protections in the state and commit the government to preserving the environment for future generations."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/24/nsw-environment-protection-laws-unlikely-to-succeed-without-major-overhaul-damning-review-finds
#Biodiversity #Conservation #NSW #law #koalas #GKNP #BellingenLogging #NativeForest #Logging #NewryStateForest #StopLogging #TuckersNobSF #SaveTuckersNob #climate

Koalas Need Trees - #SaveTuckersNob
Koalas are in serious decline suffering from the effects of habitat destruction, domestic dog attacks, bushfires and road crashes.

"Koalas are forecast to be e x t i n c t i n N S W b e f o r e 2 0 5 0 unless we act quickly.
Cutting down trees for urban development, logging and agriculture is destroying koala habitat and threatens their existence — yet the government is failing to protect koala habitat."

First koala growling heard this season in the Tuckers Nob state forest region. In a few days they are planning to destroy the endangered marsupials' habitat.

https://www.nature.org.au/koalas_need_trees
#Bellingen #GNKP #logging #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #GKNP #koalas #biodiversity #extinction makers

The extraction roads they are building around Bellingen (for the last year) could be sourcing the road making materials from the NSW Hunter region which is also a koala habitat. The forests there and here are covered in dust and residents relying on water caught off their roofs are forced to drink polluted water.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-25/hunter-region-quarry-proposals-spark-environmental-concerns/102730900
#koalas #logging #quarry #StopLogging #NativeForest #BellingenLogging #roads #traffic #dust #pollution #water #Bellingen #WaterTanks #RosesRd #GlenifferRoad #SaveTuckersNob

#NSWForestry hides the existence of original forest inside its plantations by obscuring it, or re-classification. The objective: log it, certify it, claim it's plantation. Why? Because you can clear-fell plantation and don't have any oversight from the EPA, and "it's just a plantation."
Dr. Tim Cadman, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgcaY8buG3Q
#SaveTuckersNob #NSWForestry #video #GKNP #biodiversity #habitat #GlenifferRoad #BellingenLogging #RemnantVegetation

Logging Tucker's Nob
Let's do what we can
to save what we can

#Bellingen #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #GlenifferRd #RosesRd #biodiversity#GKNP

Deforestation, climate disruption and bushfires

'Unprecedented' Canadian wildfires made worse by climate change, scientists find
"It's going to get worse."

Australia is also likely to see 'more frequent and more severe extreme weather events' due to global warming. Scientists warn severe weather will get worse. During the Black Summer fires, Australia saw roughly the same number of fire-induced thunderstorms, known as pyrocumulonimbus, as seen in the country over several decades".
"One of the worst impacts of fires like those in Canada and during the Black Summer in Australia was the widespread impact on air quality. It's hard to adapt to — if the air we breathe isn't safe to breathe."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-23/research-shows-warmer-climate-made-canada-fires-worse/102759834

Deforestation and climate change
https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/deforestation/

What is the scale of deforestation and its role in climate change?
"Land use change, principally deforestation, contributes 12–20% of global greenhouse gas emissions."
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/explainers/whats-redd-and-will-it-help-tackle-climate-change/

#smoke #pollution #deforestation #logging #bushfire #risks #FossilFuel #climate #pyrocumulonimbus #GreenhouseGas #emissions #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob