Our Disappearing Forests Survey Results
Thank you to the 98 attendees that completed survey (approximately 30% of attendees) making these results highly representative.
Results from the online survey:
63% have reconsidered their state and/or federal vote
76% Support a boycott campaign against brands that use native forest wood supply
90.8% support the immediate transition to plantations and 72.4% want an end to all native forests logging
91.8% want the Central Highlands forest estate to be managed for Biodiversity, 90.8% wildlife refugia
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Over 300 concerned residents from Healesville, Kinglake, Toolangi, Marysville and surrounds packed the Healesville Memorial Hall to capacity last Thursday night. Attendees heard presentations from local community groups about logging and its impact on our native forests and regional economies
Media Following the Event
VicForest charge
A PRELIMINARY hearing into claims VicForests has illegally logged Leadbeater’s possum habitat in Toolangi will be heard at Ringwood Magistrates’ Court in August.
Research group The Fauna and Flora Research Collective has brought criminal charges against the State Government’s forestry arm in what the collective and local environment groups are hailing as a “landmark legal case”.
VicForests accused of felling old-growth mountain ash
THE Victorian government's forestry arm will face a legal challenge over claims it illegally logged old-growth forest and increased the risk to a threatened species.
Environmental groups accuse VicForests of felling dozens of pre-1900 ash eucalypts, breaching the Central Highlands Forest Management Plan.
The Age June 29, 2010 Adam Morton
Call for the chop
A CALL for VicForests to be disbanded was given overwhelming support at a public meeting in Healesville last week.
So too were calls for logging to cease on Mt St Leonard, for the Department of Sustainability and Environment to be made more accountable for logging audits and breaches of the logging code and for a community rally as a show of strength within the broader community for major reforms to the logging of native forests.
Council calls for stop to native logging in Yarra Ranges
YARRA Ranges Council is putting its weight behind a community push to stop native forest logging within the shire.
At a packed meeting on June 23, residents from Toolangi and Healesville heard from council representatives and environmental lobby and conservation groups.
Presenters (Presentations coming soon)
Steve Meacher (MC & Healesville Environment Watch)
Cr. Jeanette McRae (Ryrie Ward, Yarra Ranges Council)
Cr. Samantha Dunn (Lyster Ward, Yarra Ranges Council)
Click here for details of the economic figures presented
Bernard Mace (Save Mt St Leonard)
Luke Chamberlain (The Wilderness Society)
Adam Menary (MyEnvironment Inc)
Jill Sanguinetti (Local resident)
Action: In your own handwriting, write letters to the following members of parliament asking for an immediate end to native forest logging
Gavin Jennings Victorian ALP Minister for Environment and Climate Change
- Minister for Environment and Climate Change
- Minister for Innovation
- Deputy Leader of the Government (Council)
John Brumby Victorian ALP Premier
Current Portfolios
- Premier
- Minister for Veterans' Affairs
- Minister for Multicultural Affairs
Ted Baillieu Victorian LP Leader of the Opposition
Current Portfolios
- Leader of the Liberal Party
- Leader of the Opposition
- Shadow Minister for the Arts
John Lenders Victorian ALP Treasurer Minister for Financial Services and Information and Communication Technology
Current Portfolios
- Treasurer
- Minister for Information and Communication Technology
- Minister for Financial Services
- Leader of the Government, Legislative Council
Action: email the following people asking for an immediate end to native forest logging
Benedict Hardman Victorian ALP Member for Seymour, Parliamentary Secretary for Community Development and Bushfire Reconstruction
Parliamentary Secretary, Community Development and Bushfire Reconstruction
Steve Meacher GRN Federal Candidate for McEwen
Federal Candidate for McEwen
Phone 03 5962 9008
PO Box 250
Healesville Vic 3777
email McEwen@greens.org.au
Michael Crutchfield Victorian ALP Parliamentary Secretary, Environment, Water and Climate Change
Victorian Parliamentary Secretary, Environment, Water and Climate Change
Joe Helper Victorian ALP Minister for Agriculture and Small Business
Victorian Minister for Agriculture and Small Business. He represents the electorate of Ripon in Legislative Assembly
Rob Mitchell ALP Federal Candidate McEwen
ALP Federal Candidate for McEwen
PO Box 426Diamond Creek, Australia, 3089
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