Forest Issues
CAR Reserve - Comprehensive, Adequate and Representative Reserve System for Forests in Australia Requires Immediate Review
The CAR reserve system is an area of landscape representing no less than 15% of all the ecological vegetation classes in forested estates. Outside of the CAR Reserve, the landscape is open to logging. The Regional Forest Agreements are agreements across the forests that permit logging on the proviso that a CAR Reserve is in place, however, since successive Victorian bushfire's, the CAR Reserve is longer representative nor adequate and requires immediate review. At least 10% of the reserve system in the Central Highlands is damaged and/or transformed.
Have your say - Call for submissions on Logging in the Central Highlands
Despite the review of the Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) being three years overdue, the state government is committed to allocating extra native forest for wood chipping rather than protecting endangered species' habitat.
Logging Impacts Lake Mountain's Tourism Value
Despite an Alpine 2020 strategy and a section of the code of forest practice that states that “Harvesting operations in native forests should take account of landscape values". A large coupe was proposed, objected to by Myenvironment Inc and then continued by Vicforests. Despite making a net loss of 5 million dollars in 2009,Vicforests is still prepared to sacrifice tourism potential for the area.
Proposed Logging of Rainforest in the Royston Range
Environmentalists who were keeping a close eye on Vicforest operations in the Royston range found that the coupe boundary had been marked to include a rain forest. An independent assessment found that the rain forest was of significance and the coupe boundary was moved.
Regional Forest Agreement - Review 2010
The Review of the Regional Forest Agreement is 3 years overdue which has had a major impact on the sustainability of Victorias native forest.
Two submissions by Myenvironment Inc on the 2010 of the Victorian Regional Forest Agreement
Failings of the Audit of Native Forests on Public Land
The current forest Audit program is being extended following a review of the forest Audit program by SKM. One of the key recommendations of the review was that the forest Audit program focus more heavily on planning element of the process.
Victorian Code of Forest Practice
In the face of an environmental catastrophe fuelled by industry self regulation that would have destroyed Australia’s “clean green image” and Australia’s reputation on the international timber market, in 1989 almost 200 years after the first tree fell by the saw the Victorian Parliament ratified the first code of forest practices for timber production in Native forests. Unfortunately the best intentions of the Parliament in 1989 have been manipulated to condemn our endangered species over wood chipping and are fast destroying Australia’s International environmental reputation.
Baw Baw Report
This report, commissioned by MyEnvironment Inc, outlines the discovery of an extraordinary and deplorable abuse of bureaucratic power to serve the interests of the Victorian logging industry, a pulp mill and the jobs of the state bureaucrats whose existence is predicated on the continued logging and wood chipping of the state’s native forests.
This report shows that the Regional Forest Agreements (RFA's) and the mechanism in place to enforce them are failing to protect endangered species. It offers a compelling reason why the Regional Forest Agreements should no longer be exempted by Section 38 of the EPBC Act. Read more
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