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

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

Koalas crushed, starving as Kangaroo Island's blue gum plantations come down

"As the plantations come, down dislocated koalas are hurting recovering native vegetation."

"Wildlife workers and researchers say Kangaroo Island koalas displaced by the removal of controversial Tasmanian blue gum plantations are starving — and an urgent solution is required...We're seeing koalas starving and being displaced in large numbers and this is just not good enough. Mrs Welz said since November last year, her group had cared for numerous animals with crush injuries."

"What we … would love to see is a sacrificial plantation where healthy koalas can be put in to live out their natural lives," she said."

"Koalas are not indigenous to Kangaroo Island and were introduced in the 1920s...the island's vegetation had not fully recovered from the Black Summer bushfires, and as koalas displaced by the plantation shutdown moved into farmland and areas of roadside vegetation, over-browsing was occurring."

"The spokesperson said the department was aware of the potential impacts on remnant native vegetation as koalas were forced to move, but that it was not considering acquiring or leasing part of the remaining unburnt plantation as a refuge."

"The animals are being displaced as the island's timber plantations come down."

""Locals say a koala management plan is needed as displaced animals are destroying native plants."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-30/calls-for-koala-management-kangaroo-island-plantations-removed/102754180
#wildlife #habitat #koalas #crush #injuries #plantations #RemnantVegetation #logging #BlackSummer #bushfires #CarbonOffsets #KangarooIsland #translocation

#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