Tag NEFA
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Call for Minister Kean to keep his word and protect koala habitat
A local ecologist is calling for the Environment Minister Matt Kean to protect important koala habitat and ensure that the EPA prosecute the Forestry Corporation for breaking the new logging rules.
10 days ago | Echonetdaily | 5 -
40 day Stop Work Order for Forestry Corporation
The EPA has imposed a 40 day Stop Work Order on Forestry Corporation logging in parts of Wild Cattle Creek State Forest, inland from Coffs Harbour, after their finding of two giant trees cut down.
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 4 -
Start taking action on World Environment Day
Today, 5 June, is World Environment Day and the theme is ‘Time for Nature’. It is a theme that asks you to consider the fact that the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the climate of the earth are what allows us to exist and inhabit this small blue dot in the ever expanding universe.
June 5, 2020 | Aslan Shand | 4 -
Great Koala National Park a step in the right direction
Koalas are doing it tough. Between logging and fires, koalas are struggling as a species, but some good news has come their way with new areas of habitat being protected.
June 2, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Koala hospitals full as rescuers start bushfire training
Koala hospitals in Port Macquarie, Currumbin and the Australia Zoo are reportedly full as wildlife rescuers do their best to save the endangered species from fire-affected areas.
November 11, 2019 | Mia Armitage | 1 -
Koala inquiry chief calls for urgent koala rescues
The head of a state koala inquiry has written to the premier asking for urgent rescues of wildlife from bushfire-affected areas in northern NSW.
October 22, 2019 | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Nearly 25 years after calling for council koala plans, NSW govt has approved 6 – sort of
When was the last time you saw a koala ‘in the wild’? Alive? A NSW state inquiry on koala populations is underway, with a public hearing happening this Friday from 9.30am at the Ballina RSL. The government committee overseeing the... Read More →
October 15, 2019 | Mia Armitage | 6 -
Who will rescue endangered animals at risk of dying from bushfires?
While RFS volunteers were busy assessing property damage and Cr Mustow was calling for people to register themselves on a survival list run by Red Cross late last week, Mr Pugh said nobody was allowed into the fire-impacted area south of Casino to check on wildlife.
October 14, 2019 | Mia Armitage | 6 -
Calls for action to save koalas as Forestry Corporation prepares to log Braemar
With logging due to start in the Braemar State Forest next Friday, the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) are calling on the community to voice their opposition to logging of core Koala habitat.
September 6, 2019 | Paul Bibby | 5 -
Is Queensland reverting to the Bjelke era?
‘It is essential that society has a relief valve for people to be able to peacefully, and strongly, act on their beliefs.'
August 22, 2019 | Aslan Shand | 5 -
Opinion: A life and death election
This federal election will decide the quality of life for future generations, and irrespective of who wins it is looking pretty bleak.
May 3, 2019 | Echonetdaily | 10 -
More logging, more water, more scare campaigns
Forests, rivers – we need to turn our thinking on its head and look at how we create healthy systems before we even think about what we can take from them.
March 22, 2019 | Aslan Shand | 0 -
Forestry logging ‘highest priority’ koala habitat
A North East Forest Alliance study has identified that the Forestry Corporation has logged 2,500 hectares of 'highest priority' koala habitat over the last four years.
March 15, 2019 | Aslan Shand | 2 -
NEFA offers to break deadlock over illegal logging
Forest protectors stopped logging of koala habitat for a second day in Gibberagee State Forest on Tuesday before leaving the forest.
March 6, 2019 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Forestry Corp reneges on promised NEFA inspection
Long-time North Coast forest protector Dailan Pugh said he is ‘at my wits end’ after the NSW Forestry Corporation yesterday failed to honour an agreement that saw an end to activists occupying Gibberagee state forest last week.
February 21, 2019 | Chris Dobney | 4 -
RFAs a go ahead for species extinction
Environmental groups, including The Wilderness Society, are claiming that the new NSW Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) will drive more native species to extinction and ensure the collapse of NSW forests.
January 18, 2019 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Govt policy an expensive recipe for koala extinction: NPA
The National Parks Association of NSW Inc is renewing calls for the government to create new protected areas for koalas, including the Great Koala National Park, following the release of a critique of the NSW government’s Koala Strategy it co-authored with WWF and NEFA.
December 20, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Labor examines party’s history on environment
How can community movements work with progressive governments to achieve real outcomes for the environment? That’s the question that will debate in an event this Friday (November 16).
November 12, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
State govt’s logging shortfall claims fraudulent: NEFA
The North East Forest Alliance has accused the NSW Government of ‘fraudulently claiming a shortfall in high quality logs available from State Forests in north-east NSW’ .
August 27, 2018 | Chris Dobney | 4 -
Govt’s waterways funding ignores cause of problem: NEFA
The North East Forest Alliance has described as ‘misdirection’ the claim by the National Party that their spending of $45.7 million under the NSW Marine Estate Management Strategy will result in improvement in water quality of North Coast rivers.
August 21, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
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.
July 20, 2018 | 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.
July 19, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 8 -
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.
June 28, 2018 | 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
