Victoria has banned native logging on Crown land from next year.
The Greens, environment groups, and sections of the federal Labor Party all want a nationwide end to native logging.
A motion to end logging across Australia was defeated at the Labor Party’s national conference in Brisbane this week, after strong lobbying from senior Labor figures.
“The decent thing here is that Tasmania should be following Victoria and Western Australia, and ending native logging and destruction and extinction of our species,” former Greens Senator Bob Brown recently told the ABC. Environment groups are thrilled about the impending end of Victoria’s native timber industry.
Victorian Agriculture Minister Gayle Tierney conceded the decision was hastened by costly legal action taken by environment groups that halted logging in the state’s Central Highlands and East Gippsland regions.
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“The decent thing here is that Tasmania should be following Victoria and Western Australia, and ending native logging and destruction and extinction of our species,” former Greens Senator Bob Brown recently told the ABC.
Wilderness Society national campaigns director Amelia Young said vast areas of forest in Victoria had been “badly mismanaged” for too long.
But some experts fear the loss of local timber will have devastating consequences for many developing nations, hasten the destruction of whole ecosystems and accelerate the extinction of perilously threatened species.
Forestry Australia president Michelle Freeman said the end of local timber production, had seen a recent escalation in imports from countries like the United States, China, Brazil, and Indonesia.
Victorian Agriculture Minister Gayle Tierney conceded the decision was hastened by costly legal action taken by environment groups that halted logging in the state’s Central Highlands and East Gippsland regions.
Wellington Shire Mayor Ian Bye said recently, via a Freedom of Information request, the council received numerous heavily redacted cabinet documents.
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