NSW police have confirmed they arrested and charged six of the eight people protesting against native forest logging in Coffs Harbour yesterday. 

Nationwide marches are taking place this Sunday, including at Byron Bay, as the call to stand up and protect native forests and stop logging them goes out. 

This morning climbers deployed a banner reading ‘Protecting Forests is Climate Action’ at Protestor Falls near Nimbin.

In 2019 and 2020, NSW Forestry Corporation illegally clear-felled 14,440 square metres of mature native hardwood forest. Following a secret deal this illegal destruction kept secret from the public for five years...

The NSW Forestry Corporation has retrospectively slashed timber yields by 28 per cent according to the NEFA calling into question the viability of NSW’s native logging forestry industry

Greens federal candidate Mandy Nolan says the push to end native forest logging is back on the agenda in federal parliament, after emails released last week under freedom of information laws show Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek described a deal late last year to set up a federal Environment Protection Agency (EPA) as ‘critical’ before being overturned by PM Anthony Albanese.

Protesters last week demanded an end to logging in the native forests around Coffs Harbour, to protect the precious habitat of koalas, now classified as endangered and threatened with extinction in NSW.

On Sunday, thousands of people at rallies across Australia called on the country’s politicians to protect native forests and immediately end native forest logging. 

It was pouring rain, and dark, as my 14-year- old son Omar, Frankie our faithful Jack Russell, and I made our way four hours south to the traditional logging town of Taylors Arm, west of Macksville. Taylors Arm was made famous in Slim Dusty’s song, The Pub With No Beer. 

Byron Bay and Mullumbimby locals Emma Briggs and Bassi Brown locked onto machinery at Ewingar State Forest, in the Upper Clarence area, yesterday as they called for an end to native forest logging.