When they came and took the forest away... there was a civil uprising.
Pt.2
Cherán. 5 years of self-government in an indigenous community in Mexico
"Ordinary people decided to confront the criminal organizations that came down from the hill with several vans loaded with wood. That was the beginning. Its experience has inspired indigenous communities throughout Mexico, who seek respect for their rights, territory, institutions and culture."
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/cher-n-5-years-of-self-government-in-indi/

Images: Confronting the cartel: Ritual Inhabitual depict a community’s fightback against corruption in Mexico
https://www.1854.photography/2023/07/ritual-inhabitual-ones-to-watch/

Can satellite imagery fight illegal logging in Mexico?
Between 2006 and 2012, researchers estimate that about 70 percent of Cheran’s forests were ravaged by organised criminals as locals staged protests to denounce police inaction.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/26/can-satellite-imagery-fight-illegal-logging-in-mexico

#Forests #biodiversity #trees #water #Cherán #IndigenousPeoples #uprising
#Logging #violence #trucks #cartels #corruption #IndigenousSelfRule #SelfDetermination #DecisionMaking #SocialMedia #protests #democracy #activism #resistance #PoliticalParticipation #fightback
#NewryStateForest #NSWLogging #Gumbaynggirr

Many now flock to natural places for the best selfie background.

"Trampling plants, damaging rock art, risking your life: taking selfies in nature has a cost."

"Someone goes swimming, puts it on social media and suddenly there’s 100 people a day coming to go wild swimming where the platypus and the glow-worms live. And in a wet year, suddenly all the vegetation around the rock pool is trampled, it turns into a muddy mess."

https://theconversation.com/trampling-plants-damaging-rock-art-risking-your-life-taking-selfies-in-nature-has-a-cost-211901
#Gumbaynggirr #Bellingen #PromisedLand #NeverNeverRiver #tourism #locals #selfie #nature #NoGeotags #travel

New research shows: "Alarmingly, climate change is making bushfires more frequent."
Logging and 'thinning' Bellingen does too.

"We excluded deliberate burns such as hazard reduction (or prescribed) burns lit by fire authorities. We also excluded places that had been logged, because they’re known to be at a high risk of severe fire – and so including them would have skewed the results."

"Clearly, we must seek to limit the number of wildfires. An obvious response is to take more strident steps to tackle climate change. But even if humanity meets this huge global challenge, it will be a long time before we see demonstrable changes in climate conditions."

"More immediate options include managing vegetation to reduce flammability. For example, activities such as logging and thinning can make forests more flammable, so such practices should be halted in these vulnerable ecosystems."

"Greater efforts are needed to conserve biodiversity that is sensitive to fire, and to conserve ecosystems at risk of collapse. We must also embrace new technologies to detect wildfires as soon as they ignite, and suppress them as quickly as possible."

https://theconversation.com/yes-climate-change-is-bringing-bushfires-more-often-but-some-ecosystems-in-australia-are-suffering-the-most-211683

Logging elevated the probability of high-severity fire in the 2019–20 Australian forest fires
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01717-y

What environmental and climatic factors influence multidecadal fire frequency?
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4610

#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #fire #risks #water #Bellingen #Gleniffer #Gumbaynggirr #MidNorthCoast #logging #BellingenLogging #TuckersNobSF #GKNP #ClearFelling #koala #SaveTuckersNob #bushfires #biodiversity #conservation

Bellingen - Tuckers Nob proposed logging/ clear felling Information Meeting

To the community of Tuckers Nob State Forest and any residents concerned by proposed Industrial Logging of Compartments 26/27 you are invited to a meeting by Friends of Tuckers Nob at

Gleniffer Hall
Thursday 17 of August at 6 pm

#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #fire #risks #water #Bellingen #catchment #RosesRd #GlenifferRd #trucks #traffic #noise #dust #Gleniffer #meeting #Gumbaynggirr #MidNorthCoast #logging #BellingenLogging #TuckersNobSF #woodchips #GKNP #ClearFelling #koala

Newry State forest - Anti-logging protest enters second week
Anti-logging protesters near Coffs Harbour, on the New South Wales north coast, say an area being logged in the Newry State forest contains sacred sites and endangered species.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/video/anti-logging-protest-enters-second-week/g6o6mcn7l

'It's killing our songlines' - traditional owners protest against logging
Podcast & transcipt
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/its-killing-our-songlines-traditional-owners-protest-against-logging/4p2pwob17
#Logging #biodiversity #Gumbaynggirr #FirstNationspeople #CoffsHarbour #NewryStateForest #SacredSites #EndangeredSpecies #koalas

NSW Labor accused of ‘fundamental breach of trust’ over logging in promised koala national park

"Tensions are escalating in state forests near Bellingen, where a protesters’ camp is locked in a standoff with a heavy police presence. The government made one single promise – it was going to create the great koala national park – and now it’s gutting it. All communities around are considering it a fundamental breach of trust and reneging on a promise.”

Bellingen is turning into a 'blank spot' on the map, all that has the potential to 'put it on the map' is extracted, eradicated and ruined.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/12/nsw-labor-accused-of-fundamental-breach-of-trust-over-logging-in-promised-koala-national-park
#NSW #MidNorthCoast #Bellingen #Gumbaynggirr #Logging #landClearing #EndangeredHabitats #NewryStateForest #GNKP #koalas #biodiversity #Promises #Legitimacy #Trust #Climate

The New South Wales Government has ranked last out of every state and federal government in combating deforestation.

"Approved plans for forestry operations at Newry State Forest were made active last week. Newry State Forest holds cultural importance to the Gumbaynggirr people."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-03/wwf-ranks-nsw-government-last-australia-combating-deforestation/102683524
#climate #logging #NSW #CoffsHarbour #NewryStateForest #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #Gumbaynggirr #climate #biodiversity

Forestry Corp taking a wrecking ball to Gumbaynggirr culture and the Great Koala National Park

"The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the states leading environmental advocacy organisation, has today condemned targeted and intensive logging of forests within the proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP) by Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW)."

"Newry State Forest on the Mid-North Coast (10km west of Urunga) is the most recent target of these operations inside the proposed GKNP...31,000 hectares of forest are currently slated for logging within the boundaries of the proposed GKNP over the next 12 months. This represents nearly 18 per cent of the entire area proposed for gazettal to form the GKNP.”

https://www.nature.org.au/forestry_corp_taking_wrecking_ball_to_gumbaynggirr_culture_gknp
#GKNP #Gumbaynggirr #SacredSites #NewryStateForest #logging #climate #biodiversity #conservation

Gumbaynggirr Elders physically removed from Sacred Land in Newry State Forest

"These industrial logging operations destroy our water security, make our globally significant forest fauna extinct, destroy important public assets and carbon stores and endanger lives and properties by causing much more intense and frequent bushfires."
"Our land is being destroyed at this time by logging. The Newry State Forest holds our Nunguu Miirlarl, our sacred mens place and is home to many endangered animals, particularly our Koalas and our possum glider. We need to protect our totems. We need to protect Gumbaynggirr Culture. The NSW government promised a Great Koala National Park yet they (NSW Forestry Corporation) continue to log huge areas of Koala Habitat. We need take a strong stand and say no. This Logging must stop."

https://nit.com.au/31-07-2023/7001/elders-physically-removed-from-sacred-land
#Gumbaynggirr #Country #NewryStateForest #logging #GKNP #biodiversity

A message from Gumbaynggirr country
#Gumbaynggirr #Bellingen #NSW #respect #ecosystem #tourism SchoolHolidays #waterways #pollution #GeoTags

#Gumbaynggirr is on the Gambay - #FirstLanguages map. #Gambay showcases over 780 languages.

https://gambay.com.au/languages/Gumbaynggirr
https://www.firstlanguages.org.au/

#FLA #IndigenousLanguages #Coffs #Bellingen #Nambucca

'Whitefella Way' by photographer and writer Jon Rhodes is out. https://whitefellaway.com/ #book #artifacts #iconoclasm #Indigenous #culture #petroglyphs #Gumbaynggirr #Country #care