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.

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.

In April, six brave, passionate, committed souls climbed onto the roof of a several-storey building housing Forestry Corporation in Coffs Harbour.

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

Yesterday saw a new ruling that confirms the right of community and Indigenous groups to bring legal action against the FCNSW to enforce NSW logging laws.

When the Northern Rivers went from rural to radical in the 1970s, the scene was set for a stoush with loggers and government to save the region’s rare and valuable rainforest – the Big Scrub

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...

On Monday, forest campaigners who had been protecting the Clouds Creek Greater Glider Sanctuary at Billy’s Creek, west of the Blicks River on the Dorrigo Plateau, appeared at a hearing in the Coffs Harbour Local Court.

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

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.