From The Age 24/11/17 - "The Federal Court on Friday issued orders stating that VicForests will not harvest timber from 34 sites, known as coupes, in the Victorian central highlands. VicForests agreed to suspend logging operations until a hearing in mid-December that will consider whether its logging activity is compliant with the regional forest agreement and exempt from federal laws."
Ref: http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/logging-halted-in-34-areas-as-environmentalists-challenge-contentious-forest-deal-20171123-gzrch4.html
We need more people up in arms and writing to ministers, we need the wider community to know. This is our water catchment. This is the home of rare protected and wonderful animals. See http://www.tcha.org.au for more info and to find out about donating or getting involved. I will try and post links to ways to write to letters to ministers or support the Victorian central highlands campaign.
At the start of November we also saw a victory for old growth forests. See this Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/01/conservationists-win-court-battle-to-stop-clearing-of-old-growth-victorian-forest
Also see http://www.eastgippsland.net.au/ and http://www.geco.org.au/
And who wouldn't want to protect this:
Photo taken from http://www.geco.org.au/kuark_forest
The campaign is not over, funds are needed to help keep legal actions going, donate here https://chuffed.org/project/save-the-kuark-forest
You can also email the premier Daniel Andrews by visiting http://www.geco.org.au/no_more_lawless_logging or sign a petition over here: http://www.geco.org.au/sign_a_petition_to_the_premier
There are so many reasons to support protecting our forests, please go and do something now.
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