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No agreement on paper
Ben Butler
August 3, 2011
THE owner of Australia's best-known brand of paper, Reflex, has fought off environmental groups to gain a one-month extension to its international green certification.
But the price of the one-month extension granted to Reflex's manufacturer, Australian Paper, has been to open deep divisions within the certification system, with international governing body the Forest Stewardship Council attacking Australian Paper's auditor, SmartWood, over the decision.
Man arrested as anti-logging protesters target Toolangi
1 Aug 11 by Alex Munro
The Lilydale and Yarra Valley Leader
UPDATE 3.05pm: A GREENS candidate who ran for the seat of McEwen last year was arrested at an anti-logging protest today.
Healesville environmentalist Steve Meacher was supporting a treetop protester in a logging exclusion zone at Sylvia Creek, Toolangi, when he was arrested by Department of Sustainability and Environment officers at 8am.
Protesters have targeted a logging coupe in Sylvia Creek for the past three weeks, saying it is one of the few old forests to survive Black Saturday and contains the endangered Leadbeater’s Possum.
A press release from The Wilderness Society said a man was also arrested on Friday “after staying high in the canopy and preventing any work from proceeding”.
A tree sitter was removed from the same site earlier this afternoon and the contractor is preparing to resume work late today or tomorrow.
The Department of Sustainability has confirmed that 10 protesters were escorted peacefully from the site, three were arrested and removed after refusing to leave and two were charged under the safety on public land act.
The possum's best mates - article text
Article by Kath Gannaway published in the Mountain Views Mail (page 5) 2nd August, 2011
The possum's best mates
Article by Kath Gannaway published in the Mountain Views Mail (page 5) 2nd August, 2011
Ecological consultant Jacques Cop and a team member prepare to do a documented survey at Sylvia Creek.
Logging arrests
Kath Gannaway
Mountain Views Mail 2nd August 2011
ARRESTS have been made at Toolangi as a campaign to stop logging at the Gun Barrel and Freddo coupes on Sylvia Creek Road enters its third week.
Toolangi resident and chair of Healesville Environment Watch Inc (HEWI) Steve Meacher was arrested at the coupe on Monday morning along with another protester.
Tree hugger on top
Article by Kath Gannaway published in the Mountain Views Mail Newspaper 26th July 2011
Strzelecki koalas suffering from logging: inquiry
AAP
August 01, 2011
A Victorian population of koalas is being threatened by logging, a Senate inquiry has heard.
Friends of the Earth is calling for the Strzelecki Koala to be recognised as a threatened species because its natural food source is being eroded.
Land use researcher Anthony Amis from Friends of the Earth says mountain ash trees felled in the Strzelecki Ranges in South Gippsland are being replaced by shining gums in plantation areas after harvest.
"Mountain ash is a koala feed source, shining gum is not," Mr Amis told the hearing today.
Repeated logging breaches go unpenalised, says report
Ben Cubby
July 28, 2011
THE rules governing logging in the state's forests are being systematically broken, a new report produced by the Environmental Defender's Office of NSW says.
It identifies dozens of breaches of environmental laws in native forests on the north and south coasts but notes that relatively few fines are being handed (to) contractors employed by Forests NSW, a state government agency.
Desperate Measures
Desperate measures were taken this week by protesters trying to prevent further logging within the Toolangi State Forest, in particular the Sylvia Creek Coupe.
About 40 protestors gathered on Monday giving additional support to a tree protester suspended high in a mountain ash tree on site. Protests were also held on Sunday July 17, 2011, with 110 people in attendance.
Scanned from the front page of the Yea Chronicle published July 27, 2011.
Logging Causes Distress
Scanned article published in the Yea Chronicle July 27, 2011