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.

Spirits and voices were nearly as high as Sunday’s rain clouds over Lismore when people took to the streets calling for greater forest protection.

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

Twenty forest defenders protested at the Smithton Ta Ann mill yesterday, while more than 100 forest defenders are involved in frontline actions across three sites as part of Bob Brown Foundation’s Forest Resistance Tour.

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.

Murray Watt's lifeline to loggers won’t save native forests, says Bob Brown Foundation, as forest protests continue in Lutruwita/Tasmania.

Bob Brown Foundation has recorded critically endangered swift parrots across their Tasmanian breeding territory, in multiple forests on the logging schedule, including two nesting pairs of the critically endangered parrots in a forest behind Dover.

This morning, veteran forest defender Ali Alishah has attached himself to the only access gate leading into a sub-alpine forest in the Central Highlands that Forestry Tasmania refers to as BD052A. This forest, near Brady Lake, contains large numbers of Eucalyptus dalrympleana and the critically endangered swift parrot has been documented here.

Boundaries of the long-awaited Great Koala National Park on the NSW mid-north coast have finally been announced alongside an immediate temporary ban on timber harvesting in impacted state forest.

Forest defenders with Bob Brown Foundation yesterday occupied a third logging area in Waykaywirinu/Tasmania’s Central Highlands, where Forestry Tasmania’s logging machines are tearing through an ancient, sub-alpine forest.