I’m in a public state forest looking for endangered gliders at night time to protect these unique animals from getting their homes cut down and turned into woodchips, because our government-owned Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) is looking for their dens (hollow in tree = their home) at daytime.
In the past four years FCNSW has been fined over $1.5 million for environmental law breaches, with estimated legal costs exceeding $1.75 million. Between January 2020 and early 2024 the NSW Environment Protection Authority(EPA) issued 31 warnings, 13 penalty notices, 5 stop-work orders and initiated 8 prosecutions against FCNSW. As of August 2025 the EPA had filed 29 new charges against FCNSW. So who is actually paying these fines? It’s the taxpayer!
So it seems to me that FCNSW is a repeat offender who is not changing anything in their behaviour in OUR forests. Isn’t it time that we stop financing the destruction of our native forests and wildlife, got rid of FCNSW, and used the money saved to regenerate the forests after the destructive bushfires of 2019/20 … and the impact of FCNSW!
‘March for Forests’ is on 22 March nationwide and in Lismore!
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
