Breaches
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Breaches
Alleged Breach 0502 Failure re Sustainability Charter Objective 2
Failure to ‘Maintain and improve the capacity of forest ecosystems to produce wood and non-wood products’ as required in Objective 2 of the Sustainability Charter 2006 (Vic) (“Charter”)
Our Reference: Alleged Breach #502
Current status - waiting response from VicForests
Alleged Breach 231 Yea Link Road
VicForests have commenced logging in Leadbeaters Habitat, Old growth forest, and endangered species habitat. This attachment is a detailed formal complaint to the DSE.
Secret export of sawlogs destroys native forests, betrays Victorian communities
It is not illegal to log Native Forests in Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, or Western Australia and since there is no demand here in Australia whole logs are being shipped to China.
Thousands of tonnes of high-quality sawlogs from Victoria’s bushfire-devastated Central Highlands forests (near Healesville) are being secretly shipped to China, against state government policy, The Wilderness Society has revealed.
“Whole sawlogs have never been exported from Victoria before, the practice has always been banned to protect Australian jobs in the local timber industry” said The Wilderness Society’s Victorian Campaigns Manager Richard Hughes. Read More
VicForests Alleged Breach #0229 logging of Leadbeaters habitat Zone1B in 2008
Blowhard Road Alleged breach logging of Leadbeaters Habitat in 2008 read more
#201 - Logging of Stream (Toolangi, Victoria)
Breach Description: Damage to stream with running water. It has been logged with excessive roads and there has been damage to tree ferns. Current status - under investigation by the DSE
Unlawful Stream Logging by VicForests Contractors in Toolangi
When laws ain't quite laws?
VicForests has avoided legal indictment again, this time for allowing its contractors to dump logs in streams. The incident was investigated by DSE in an audit of operations last year and found VicForests contractor was liable for work suspension under the Sustainable Forests (Timber Harvesting) Regulations 2006 . When VicForests were told by the DSE to award penalty points to their contractor, VicForest simply disagreed and claimed that “VicForests applies its penalties via contracts where it is warranted. We do not believe any deliberate conduct has occurred and do not believe it would be prudent to penalise the contractor in this instance.”.
VicForests alleged breach #0230 Logging of Leadbeaters Zone 1A habitat
Alleged Breach #0230 logging of ANU Leadbeaters Monitoring site read more
Royston Range Iron Pipe Coupe
VicForests log Leadbeaters possum habitat read more
Yea Link Road
Yea Link Road Proposed logging
VicForests Alleged Breach #0228 Logging of Leadbeaters Zone 1B habitat in2006
Allegations with scientific report as evidence that VicForests Logged Leadbeaters possum in 2006 Read More
Alleged Breach #501 VicForests Failure in their Sustainability Charter Objective 1
This is the major alleged breach in relation to the wide spread management failure by VicForests to protect biodiversity especially in relation to the Sates endangered faunal emblem the Leadbeaters Possum. Read More
Re Breach #508 Armstrong Water Catchment Logging Case Study
The report below finds the following minimum standards breached in the Armstrong:
Alleged Breach 508.1
Unlawful closed season catchment logging
Alleged Breach 508.2
Hygiene procedures ignored by VicForests including defecation in closed catchment
Alleged Breach 508.3 No audits on compliance with the Code of Forest Practices for 3 years. This will run over 5 ‘auditless’ years as the next audit will be run exclusively in East Gippsland.
Alleged Breach 508.4 (SKM) note that no scientific studies establishing the ‘safety’ of logging in water supply have been conducted. Will it be a case of innocent until proven guilty, that is, wait for an outbreak before we establish the safety of logging?
Alleged Breach 508.5 Scientific assessments (BAER Report) recommending the exclusion of logging in the Armstrong Creek catchment after the 2009 bushfires IGNORED
Alleged Breach 508.6
No application of the precautionary principle to prevent logging threats.
Alleged Breach 508.7
Logging slopes in excess of 25 degrees
Alleged Breach 207 Logging of Leadbeaters Zone 1A Habitat
This is the story of the Possum habitat to Paper supply chain. Government Ministers are ducking and weaving, Government Business Enterprises are denying any wrong doing, audit bodies are awarding AFS certification. MyEnvironment Inc believe that it is the responsibility of the industries that source this wood as raw material to conduct proper due diligence on their suppliers.
Current Status = Under Investigation by DSE
Breach #208 Landing operations and hauling in wet weather (Toolangi, Victoria)
Breach Description:
Log trucks loading and operating in wet weather 13th and 16th June 2010
Current status - Under investigation by the DSE
#206 Logging of Pre-1900 Tree #910 (Toolangi, Victoria)
Breach Description:
#206 Logging of a Pre-1900 tree #910
Current status - Under investigation by the DSE
#205 Inadequate Public Participation in Proposed TRP Amendments Process (Healesville, Victoria)
Breach Description:
#205 In relation to the recent proposed TRP amendments by VicForests, MyEnvironment Inc submitted a request for more information so that an adequate TRP submission could be made, however this information has not been provided which breaches the requirements of the AFS standard in terms of meaningful stakeholder engagement.
Current status - Questions not answered
#202- Proposed Logging of Old Growth Forest and # 203 Proposed Logging of Zone 1A Leadbeaters Habitat (Toolangi, Victoria)
Breach Description:
#202 – There is a significant stand of old growth forest that is proposed for logging on the current timber release plan (TRP)
#203 – These forests are Zone 1a Leadbeaters Habitat but they are scheduled for logging. This is also evidenced by that fact that the coupe is only approximately 1.6 km from an ANU Leadbeaters monitoring site further indicating that this is its likely range
Current status - one coupe logged and the other scheduled and planned to be logged following current prescriptions
Alleged Breach 0502 Failure re Sustainability Charter Objective 2
Failure to ‘Maintain and improve the capacity of forest ecosystems to produce wood and non-wood products’ as required in Objective 2 of the Sustainability Charter 2006 (Vic) (“Charter”)
Our Reference: Alleged Breach #502
Current status - waiting response from VicForests
Alleged Breach 231 Yea Link Road
VicForests have commenced logging in Leadbeaters Habitat, Old growth forest, and endangered species habitat. This attachment is a detailed formal complaint to the DSE.
Secret export of sawlogs destroys native forests, betrays Victorian communities
It is not illegal to log Native Forests in Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, or Western Australia and since there is no demand here in Australia whole logs are being shipped to China.
Thousands of tonnes of high-quality sawlogs from Victoria’s bushfire-devastated Central Highlands forests (near Healesville) are being secretly shipped to China, against state government policy, The Wilderness Society has revealed.
“Whole sawlogs have never been exported from Victoria before, the practice has always been banned to protect Australian jobs in the local timber industry” said The Wilderness Society’s Victorian Campaigns Manager Richard Hughes. Read More
VicForests Alleged Breach #0229 logging of Leadbeaters habitat Zone1B in 2008
Blowhard Road Alleged breach logging of Leadbeaters Habitat in 2008 read more
#201 - Logging of Stream (Toolangi, Victoria)
Breach Description: Damage to stream with running water. It has been logged with excessive roads and there has been damage to tree ferns. Current status - under investigation by the DSE
Unlawful Stream Logging by VicForests Contractors in Toolangi
When laws ain't quite laws?
VicForests has avoided legal indictment again, this time for allowing its contractors to dump logs in streams. The incident was investigated by DSE in an audit of operations last year and found VicForests contractor was liable for work suspension under the Sustainable Forests (Timber Harvesting) Regulations 2006 . When VicForests were told by the DSE to award penalty points to their contractor, VicForest simply disagreed and claimed that “VicForests applies its penalties via contracts where it is warranted. We do not believe any deliberate conduct has occurred and do not believe it would be prudent to penalise the contractor in this instance.”.
VicForests alleged breach #0230 Logging of Leadbeaters Zone 1A habitat
Alleged Breach #0230 logging of ANU Leadbeaters Monitoring site read more
Royston Range Iron Pipe Coupe
VicForests log Leadbeaters possum habitat read more
Yea Link Road
Yea Link Road Proposed logging
VicForests Alleged Breach #0228 Logging of Leadbeaters Zone 1B habitat in2006
Allegations with scientific report as evidence that VicForests Logged Leadbeaters possum in 2006 Read More