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Putting koalas first: Towards zero deforestation
The NSW Nature Conservation Council are calling for community action to protect old-growth forests and are coordinating a series of free workshops, the Towards Zero Deforestation Roadshow, across the north coast and NSW.
4 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Are you prepared to stand up to protect old-growth forests?
Are the states forests, protected for the last 20 years, still worth protecting? This is the question that the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) is asking.
5 days ago | Echonetdaily | 7 -
Community no longer support logging native forests
The North East Forest Alliance maintains that submissions to the NSW Regional Forest Agreements show that the logging of public native forests has lost its social licence and that the community do not support the NSW and Commonwealth government’s proposals to extend the RFAs for 20 more years.
26 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Last chance to have your say on state govt’s 20-year logging plans
A meeting tonight at Lismore Workers Club will give locals a final chance to express their concerns about the state and federal governments’ plans for logging of public lands over the next 20 years, which have been widely criticised by environment groups.
June 19, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Forest destruction coming your way: Lismore public meeting
Proposed changes to the NSW logging rules will remove protections for most threatened species, open up protected old-growth forest for logging, allow intensified logging, establish a clear-felling zone, and reduce buffers on headwater streams.
June 15, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 5 -
Public meetings to consider government’s new logging rules
Two local environment groups have set up their own public meetings to inform NorthCoast residents of impending dramatic changes to logging agreements in state forests they say would 'cut environmental protections to the bone'.
June 4, 2018 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Govt bureaucrats abandon forest field trip in favour of ‘sham’ consultation
A North Coast environment group has been left reeling after NSW Government bureaucrats unilaterally cancelled an inspection tour of degraded local forests just days before it was due to take place.
May 28, 2018 | Chris Dobney | 1 -
Lest we forget: are the forest wars coming again?
Community action called for as state government looks at weakening logging regulations that environmentalists say 'will directly result in the deaths of many of NSW’s most threatened animal species'.
May 17, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Regional Forest Agreements have failed: review needed
NSW environment groups are calling on federal Labor to support NSW colleagues and oppose Coalition’s sham Regional Forest Agreement process
March 29, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Review of forest agreements is a ‘smokescreen’
A NSW Government review of Regional Forest Agreements has been described as a smokescreen by long-time forest campaigner Dailan Pugh of the North East Foresty Alliance.
January 25, 2018 | The Echo | 3 -
Private landowners encouraged to ‘make up logging shortfall’
The North East Forest Alliance has hit out at calls from the Department of Primary Industries for up to 18,000 North Coast farmers to consider logging their properties, saying it is ‘targeting the best koala habitat left on private land for intensified logging'.
January 17, 2018 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Protect koalas and world heritage site this Thursday
A demonstration has been sparked for this Thursday by the destruction of high value forest and koala habitat through illegal logging and road building in Environment Protection Zones (EPZ) near Limpinwood, between Chillingham and Tyalgum.
September 21, 2017 | Aslan Shand | 4 -
EPA stops logging at Limpinwood for inspection
Tweed Shire Council has found unauthorised clearing in the Environmental Protection Zone in Limpinwood by landowner, Hewittville Holdings.
September 14, 2017 | Aslan Shand | 2 -
Logging in headwaters risks endangered fish: NEFA
The North East Forest Alliance has accused the NSW Forestry Corporation of deliberately logging in areas that could impact on the future survival of an endangered native freshwater fish.
May 8, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 2 -
A clearing and logging moratorium called for to save koalas
Koala song monitoring is helping track and map koala populations and the North East Forest Alliance are calling on Premier Gladys Berejiklian to place a clearing and logging moratorium on the high quality habitat identified.
May 5, 2017 | The Echo | 0 -
Forestry Corporation threatens environmentalist
The Forestry Corporation picked the International Day of Forests to write to North East Forest Alliance auditor Dailan Pugh threatening him with a $2,200 fine if he returns to meet with the Environment Protection Authority or audit Gibberagee State Forest.
March 23, 2017 | The Echo | 5 -
Anti-forestry group ejected from audit of endangered trees
A representative of the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) was ejected from a meeting that he called with the Environment Protection Authority at Gibberagee State Forest after it was ‘gatecrashed by the Forestry Corporation’.
March 13, 2017 | Chris Dobney | 5 -
EPA’s ‘official cautions’ confirm its ‘pathetic’ status: NEFA
A north coast environment group has lashed the EPA, which has issued NSW Forestry Corporation with not one cent in fines despite proof the corporation flouted its compliance obligations at Cherry Tree State Forest, near Casino.
December 22, 2016 | Chris Dobney | 4 -
Baird’s ‘koala extermination program’ condemned
‘Stand up for koalas or they won't survive in the wild’ is the warning call from the North East Forest Alliance, which has accused the state government of carrying out a koala extermination program.
November 21, 2016 | Chris Dobney | 7 -
Timber inquiry call as ‘secret’ contract extension revealed
North coast conservationists are supporting a call for an inquiry into Wood Supply Agreements for public lands in North East NSW following revelations a key contract has been secretly extended.
April 19, 2016 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Logging plans could ‘wreck’ Richmond, Clarence rivers
One of the region’s key environmental groups has warned that the precious habitat in the Richmond and Clarence river valleys could be ruined and endangered species lost if EPA plans to loosen logging rules are allowed to proceed.
January 29, 2016 | Chris Dobney | 1 -
‘Deliberate vandalism’ by forestry agency ‘ignored’ at Whian Whian
State environmental groups are outraged over the failure by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to prosecute the state 's forestry agency for illegally bulldozing and destroying threatened wildlife habitat at Whian Whian north of Lismore in 2013.
January 4, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 4 -
NSW Forestry ‘stacked’ expert panel
A freedom of information request by a north coast environment group has revealed that an ‘independent’ panel of the EPA advising on threatened species is dominated by serving and former NSW Forestry staff.
November 23, 2015 | Chris Dobney | 3 -
NSW government must investigate Whian Whian debacle
Caroline Joseph, Belingen. North East Communities demand an independent investigation into the substantive evidence offered by NEFA about multiple breaches by FC NSW at Whian Whian which still remain unanswered by the EPA. Why did the EPA approve the actions of FC NSW and issue inadequate fines with no requirement for restoration, two years later?
September 25, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Forest Corp’s fine for Whian Whian destruction ‘pathetic’
The EPA has fined Forest Corporation of NSW $11,000 for private native forestry breaches that took place during a controversial forestry operation in Whian Whian in September and October 2013. But NEFA says the EPA is itself partly to blame for the breaches.
September 17, 2015 | Chris Dobney | 1
