Native forest logging is again in the spotlight in NSW, following Monday night’s Four Corners investigation into Forestry Corporation NSW’s failure to protect nationally endangered species.

Environmental activists say they’ve temporarily stopped logging in Cherry Tree state forest near Casino today by locking onto machinery.

The Forestry Corporation’s loss of $32 million from its hardwood logging operations last year, coupled with their ongoing failure to honour wood supply agreements, shows that logging public native forests is an economic basket-case and not a viable business, according to NEFA spokesperson Dailan Pugh.

The Forest Alliance NSW has strongly criticised the Minns’ government budget for failing to allocate the money needed to deliver its promised Great Koala National Park and future forest industry reform.

The North East Forest Alliance is concerned that the NSW government’s recently announced Independent Forestry Panel is not actually independent. NEFA is calling for the appointment of a forest ecologist to provide some balance.

Pugh’s Frog (Philoria pughi) has recently been uplisted to nationally Endangered, with logging identified as a threat, leading the North East Forest Alliance to call upon the NSW and federal environment ministers to immediately change the logging rules to protect its habitat from logging.

Logging access was blocked to Clouds Creek State Forest on Monday by local community members who were supported by Greens MP Sue Higginson as they sought to prevent logging road operations and protect endangered species in the forest.

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Over 20,000 people have signed a petition asking the NSW government to debate the proposal to place a moratorium on logging in public native forests, transition to 100 per cent sustainable plantations by 2024 for the native forestry industry, and ban the use of native forest materials as ‘biomass fuel’.

Today north coast conservationists say they are shocked and alarmed at footage of the devastation being wrought in Ellis State Forest south of Grafton.