Analysis of Vegetation Management Regulatory Frameworks in Australia

"EDO’s Analysis of Vegetation Management Regulatory Frameworks in Australia examines land clearing laws across all Australia jurisdictions, highlighting key issues and areas for improvement."

"In 2021, over 100 countries, including Australia, pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030 through the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use (Glasgow Declaration). The Glasgow Declaration includes six key commitments, including to conserve forests and accelerate their restoration; and to reverse forest loss and degradation while ensuring robust policies and systems are in place to accelerate the transition to an economy that is resilient and advances forest, sustainable land use, biodiversity and climate goals."

"WWF-Australia commissioned EDO to undertake an analysis of legal frameworks across Australia that regulate land clearing, to see how they match up against the Glasgow Declaration."

"The scorecard shows New South Wales and Queensland sit at the bottom of the leaderboard, with South Australia placing first."

https://www.edo.org.au/2023/08/29/vegetation-management-regulatory-frameworks-analysis/
#EDO #Australia #NSW #NSWlogging #ForestryCorporation #NativeForests #BellingLogging #ClearFelling #degradation #RemnantVegetation #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity #koalas #GlasgowDeclaration #biodiversity #climate

Peaceful protesters should never be criminalised or imprisoned. 

"Rise of draconian anti-protest laws in Australia is highlighted by UN Special Rapporteur"

"A UN Special Rapporteur has raised concerns about increasingly draconian laws that restrict citizens’ rights to peaceful protest around Australia."

“Over the past 18 months, maximum fines for certain types of peaceful protest in some states increased 10-fold and prison terms trebled."

https://www.edo.org.au/2023/09/08/rise-of-draconian-anti-protest-laws-in-australia-is-highlighted-by-un-special-rapporteur/

Australia: Deep divide between Government and community narratives on toxics fuels anger and distrust, says UN expert, Media release, UN- Special Rapporteur, 8-9-23.
“Draconian restrictions on the right to peaceful protest in several states aggravate the distance between State and society."
https://www.edo.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/press_release_8_september_2023_.pdf

#state vs #society
#protests #criminalisation #rights #freeSpeech #activism #democracy #HumanRights #UN #EDO #Australia #AntiProtestLaws #authoritarianism #incarceration #environment #conservation #NSWlogging #biodiversity #climate

Air pollution kills 3,200 Australians a year.
"Air pollution is the world’s single greatest environmental cause of preventable disease and premature death. In Australia, it’s linked to more than 3,200 deaths a year at an estimated cost of A$6.2 billion."

"Decarbonising transport will improve air quality as well as reducing emissions."

End
Killer mobility (Bushmaster like combustion tanks: SUVs)
Treating the Earth's air/atmosphere as a tip
Slash and burn 'plantation' forestry
Burning everything down before it might burn culture

https://theconversation.com/3-200-deaths-a-year-1-of-many-reasons-air-pollution-in-australia-demands-urgent-national-action-212973
#FossilFuel #transportation #cars #trucks #traffic #HeavyMachinery #roads #bushfires #smoke #NativeForests #NSWlogging #BellingLogging #burning #smoke #pollution #air ##climate OneHealth

Environmentalists condemn Australia’s ‘woeful record’ after 48 plants and animals added to threatened species list

“This many species being added to the list in one go is a sign of widespread ecological collapse,” Tim Beshara of the Wilderness Society.

“Australia has a woeful track record when it comes to protecting our unique animals and plants. We are a world leader in sending mammals to extinction – and it is mostly because we keep allowing their homes to be bulldozed, logged and overrun,” Nature campaigner Jess Abrahams

“We need stronger laws to protect these species and significantly more funding to do it with."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/07/environmentalists-condemn-australias-woeful-record-after-48-plants-and-animals-added-to-threatened-species-list
#Australia #EnvironmentalManagement #sprawl #roads #cats #dogs #deforestation #logging #NSWLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies #wildlife #koalas #conservation #care #extinction makers

Stop logging native forests in a climate and biodiversity emergency Pt 2

It is not ok to do industrial logging in a biodiversity crisis.
It is not ok to kill our atmosphere
It is not ok to kill the diversity of life on the planet.

Electrifying heavy-duty vehicles could reduce environmental inequalities
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-09-electrifying-heavy-duty-vehicles-environmental-inequalities.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01219-0
Camilleri, S.F., et al, Air quality, health and equity implications of electrifying heavy-duty vehicles, Nature Sustainability (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41893-023-01219-0.

https://www.dcceew.gov.au/climate-change/international-commitments
Australia is party to the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement came into force in 2016. It was a major step forward in international efforts to address climate chang

Climate Change Detection and Attribution?
https://archive.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch9s9-1-2.html

#FossiFuel #machinery #HDVs #trucks #pollution #exposure AirQuality #externalities #OneHealth #NSWLogging #logging #BellingLogging #Bellingen #RosesRoad #GlenifferRoad #Climate #GHG #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

Logging The Proposed Great Koala National Park
Logging has accelerated since labor was elected

NSW Government Under Fire For Logging Proposed Great Koala National Park
The NSW government is under fire for logging in the rainforest area that was promised to be turned into the Great Koala National Park, as the iconic Aussie animal is being threatened with extinction by 2050.
8 min video>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fhFY52oKGE
#StopLogging #NativeForests #NewryStateForest #SaveTuckersNob #NSWLogging #CulturalHeritage #koalas #biodiversity #extinction makers

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

Home of endangered marsupial hit by state-sanctioned logging in NSW, environmentalists say

"Conservationists say Forestry Corporation of NSW logging operation is ‘knocking to pieces’ a forest home to the greater glider..The greater glider is Australia’s largest gliding marsupial. It was listed as endangered in 2022 after losing significant parts of its habitat to bushfire, drought, land-clearing and logging."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/28/home-of-endangered-marsupial-threatened-by-state-sanctioned-logging-in-nsw-environmentalists-say
#NSW #endangered #habitats #species #StopLogging #NativeForest #TallagandaSF #ForestryCorporation #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #ThreatenedSpecies #marsupials #biodiversity

Calls for nationwide end to native logging
Landline | ABC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MQWQd0nKTg
#NativeForest #logging #StopLogging #NewryStateForest #NSWLogging #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity #climate #extinction #fightback #protests

Logging suspension in Newry State Forest extended in Land and Environment Court

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-25/newry-state-forest-logging-suspension-extended/102774784
#NSW #NSWLogging #GumbaynggirrLand #NewryStateForest

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

Clear & Present Threat to Juugawarri Nature Reserve from Forestry Roads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL8WFaDgZJ8
#Juugawarri #NatureReserve #roads #vehicle #traffic #pollution #NSWLogging

Legal action to protect Aboriginal cultural sites leads to temporary logging halt in Newry State Forest

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-23/newry-state-forest-logging-temporarily-halted-legal-action/102759520
#NewryStateForest #IndigenousKnowledge #NSWLogging

Nothing to see here in the public forest

The Forest Bridge proposal seeks to retain koala connectivity from Bongil Bongil to Bingarri NP's.
The Forest Bridge Pine Creek & Tuckers Nob State Forest logged, John Pile
A wasteland, no habitat for wildlife, no forest for future generations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBpGTyLeQyk
#NPs #NativeForest #EcologicalCorridor #wildlife #connectivity #wasteland #NSWLogging #biodiversity #climate #extinction makers

The Great Koala Park
Penny Sharpe
office@sharpe.minister.nsw.gov.au
Call 02 72256020
#Bellingen #logging #NSWLogging #TuckersNobSF #SaveTuckersNob #Biodiversity #climate #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark

Scenic Bellingen, NSW
Then and now?
#NSW #Bellingen #GKNP #NSWLogging #logging #SaveTuckersKnob #NativeForest #deforestation #extractivism

Bellingen's Friends of Tucker’s Nob organise via that FB/ Meta thing:

Friends of Tucker’s Nob
https://www.facebook.com/groups/250189120465227/
#NSW #Bellingen #GKNP #NSWLogging #logging #SaveTuckersKnob #NativeForest #deforestation