KOALAS STILL UNPROTECTED, STILL THREATENED. This announcement disregards the coastal koalas of SE NSW which habitat logging compartments in State Forests.

NATURAL FORESTS PHOTOGRAPH EXHIBITION

This exhibition features fine art photographers Rob Blakers, Judith Deland, Richard Green, Gordon Undy, Heide Smith, John Reid and Wesley Stacey.

CATALOGUE

ONLY REMOVING EXEMPTION OF RFA AREAS FROM THE EPBC ACT CAN SAVE KOALAS.

REPORT: Koala protected under national environment law

YOUTUBE: Help Save the Koala.

"forests with high carbon storage capacities are in relatively cool, moist climates that have fast growth with low decomposition rates, and older, complex, multi-aged and layered forests with minimal human disturbance .. eliminating harvesting of old growth forests is perhaps the most important policy measure .. to reduce emissions from land ecosystems" Will Steffen 05.2011

PETITION TO SAVE KOALAS

The Government is not adequately protecting koalas. Please download this PETITION (90k .pdf) to Minister Tony Burke. Just print it, distribute it locally for signatures, collect it and post it back to SERCA's address on the file. There are so few of the ancestral koalas left in coastal SE NSW.

NATIVE FOREST LOGGING AND FIRES

Logging native forests did not reduce the chance of house loss, the researchers from the US and Australia said. “We found no significant relationship between house loss and the amount of logging in the landscape” said Professor Ross Bradstock Summit County 19.01.2012.

AUSTRALIA'S FIRST WOOD
PELLET PLANT
using native forest wood

Bega Valley Shire Council approved a wood pellet plant at Eden. More destruction for the SE forests of NSW and their habitat. Respond to council@begavalley.nsw.gov.au. MEDIA RELEASE
SIGN THE PETITION

"With NSW’s forests running out of supplies of contracted timber, logging is now coming close to towns and villages such as Bermagui, Tanja and Tathra. This logging is putting residents at risk from wildfires".

Jamie Shaw. Forest Forum 09.12.2011

NIPPON PAPER GROUP

90% of timber logged from Australian native forests is turned into woodchips and sold overseas.

SIGN THE PETITION:

Nippon Paper Group, please stop using native forests for woodchips