Tomorrow is National Threatened Species Day and as the climate warms, floods, droughts, fires and melting ice sheets become the norm there is no escaping the scientific fact that human-induced climate change is having a massive impact not only on humans but on a multitude of other species. 

Gumbaynggirr Elders brought a successful application to the Land and Environment Court that halted logging at the Newry State Forest on 22 August but are still waiting fopr NSW Forestry to comply.

Four forest protectors ranging in age from 18 to 50 faced court today in Coffs Harbour after locking themselves onto logging machinery.

NSW Forestry Corporation has been forced to give an undertaking to stop logging in Newry State Forest after a successful application to the Land and Environment Court brought today by Gumbaynggirr Elder Uncle Micklo.

Preceding a weekend of forest actions, the conflict in Newry State Forest on the Mid-North Coast further escalated late last week as NSW Police violently arrested and locked up Gumbaynggirr Elder, Bumajin, after he attempted to perform ceremony in the forest.

Local man Brendan Scotts locked on to a harvester yesterday morning in Newry State Forest, stopping logging at the site. In the meantime the NSW Forestry Corporation’s plans to start logging the head of the Kalang River have led to a Bellingen town meeting to be held tonight at 6pm at the Bellingen Showgrounds.

Last night saw the Greens call on the NSW Labor government to stop logging koala hubs that have been identified to become part of...

Wilkarr Kurikuta, a Ngemba, Wangan and Jangalingou man, is currently locked-on to industrial logging machinery in Newry State Forest at the front line of the communities fight to preserve NSW forests from logging. 

Two young women have halted logging operations in Newry State Forest this morning, according to the The Bellingen Activist Network (BAN).