VicForests in middle of battle over possums and timber
James Campbell. Sunday Herald Sun. February 23, 2014 12:00AM
http://m.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/vicforests-in-middle-of-battle-over-possums-and-timber/story-fni0fh8t-1226834677129
A leadbeater's possum at Healesville Sanctuary. Source: News Limited
IN the next few weeks the State Government will make a decision which is likely to seal the fates of leadbeater’s possums and Victoria’s native forest timber industry.
The possum, a cute critter and since 1968 Victoria’s faunal emblem, is in a bad way. No one is sure how many of them managed to ...
Forests more valuable for carbon: former Treasury official?
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A former senior Treasury officer has waded into the heated debate about the future of Australia's native forests.
Dr. Frances Perkins worked as an economist in Canberra for 30 years for Treasury, the Department of Foreign Affairs and at the ANU.
Dr. Perkins has launched a stinging critique of the economics of native forest logging, saying that the forests are more ...
Royal Society favours park to protect possums
Tom Arup. Environment editor, The Age.
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/royal-society-favours-park-to-protect-possums-20140215-32svk.html
The state's pre-eminent scientific organisation, the Royal Society of Victoria, has thrown its support behind the push for a new national park on Melbourne's doorstep to protect Leadbeater's possums and other threatened mountain ash forest species.
Scientific concern for the possums' survival has soared since the 2009 Black Saturday fires destroyed 45 per cent of their best habitat. Conservationists also blame logging in ...
VicForests logs on
Posted on 16 December 2013.
MyEnvironment members and supporters are calling for a review of logging laws after their failed appeal. 112190_01. Picture: KATH GANNAWAY.
By KATH GANNAWAY
http://mountainviews.starcommunity.com.au/mail/2013-12-16/vicforests-logs-on/
ENVIRONMENT group MyEnvironment has lost its appeal against a 2012 Supreme Court decision that found in favour of State Government logging arm VicForests.
The decision paves the way for logging to resume in three Toolangi coupes that have been subject to an injunction for the past two years.
It took just ...
Vested interests’ are harming efforts to save the Leadbeater’s possum
Panel created to save Victoria's faunal emblem favours the logging industry, says Wilderness Society.
Oliver Milman. theguardian.com
Thursday 28 November 2013 14.24 AEST.
The Leadbeater's possum is Victoria's faunal emblem. Photograph: guardian.co.uk
A government-formed panel tasked with saving the Leadbeater’s possum is hopelessly conflicted and has already discarded proposals to change logging practices that are driving the animal to extinction, conservationists have claimed.
Documents seen by Guardian Australia show the Leadbeater’s Possum Advisory Group ...
National park push goes on
By JESSE GRAHAM. 19th November 2013.
http://mountainviews.starcommunity.com.au/mail/2013-11-19/national-park-push-goes-on/
MOMENTUM continued to build for a new national park in Toolangi last week, following a speech to environmental and anti-logging groups in Healesville.
Wilderness Society Victorian campaigns manager Amelia Young spoke to members of Healesville Environment Watch Incorporated (HEWI), the Knitting Nannas of Toolangi (KNOT), My Environment, Mt Toolbewong Landcare Group, Friends of the Leadbeater’s Possum and other groups on Thursday 14 November.
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Tree change for possum protest
By JESSE GRAHAM. Posted on 19 November 2013.
http://mountainviews.starcommunity.com.au/mail/2013-11-19/tree-change-for-possum-protest/
ANTI-LOGGING is the centre of a young conservationist’s protest in Toolangi, which has seen her take to the treetops until the end of the year.
Hannah Patchett began her vigil in a red tree house about 25 metres from the ground on Sunday 10 November in the forest, and plans to stay there until Christmas.
The 20-year-old’s stay in the tree house, which borders a scheduled logging coupe, is to protest against clear-fell logging in areas ...
Animals going extinct while millions in funding go squandered Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/animals-going-extinct-while-millions-in-funding-go-squandered-20131125-2y65s.html#ixzz2s1ma8r1X
November 26, 2013. Peter Hannam -Environment Editor, The Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/animals/animals-going-extinct-while-millions-in-funding-go-squandered-20131125-2y65s.html
Not all hope lost: Efforts to save the yellow-footed rock wallaby have had some success. Photo: Natalie Grono
Animals are going extinct and millions of dollars in Australian endangered species funding are being squandered because of poor planning and monitoring, leading environmental scientists say.
If data on the welfare of an endangered species is ...
Australia under fire for failing to protect threatened animals
Ecologist says Australia has a 'dreadful' track record in planning, monitoring and responding to threats to endangered species
Oliver Milman. theguardian.com.
Tuesday 26 November 2013 15.02 AEST
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/26/australia-under-fire-for-failing-to-protect-threatened-animals
A quokka munches on a leaf on Rottnest island in WA, home of the world's only sizeable quokka population. Photograph: Adam Gartrell/AAPIMAGE
Australia is failing to protect its endangered species due a “dreadful” track record in planning, ...
Protester occupies forest treehouse to protect Leadbeater’s possum Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/protester-occupies-forest-treehouse-to-protect-leadbeaters-possum-20131110-2xa5p.html#ixzz2s1kK30dk
November 11, 2013. Thomas O'Byrne.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/protester-occupies-forest-treehouse-to-protect-leadbeaters-possum-20131110-2xa5p.html
Staying put: protester Hannah Patchett. Photo: Simon Schluter
Perched 25 metres off the ground upon a mountain ash tree, Hannah Patchett's new home lacks the luxuries enjoyed by most 20-year-olds.
But the bright red treehouse, high in the Toolangi State Forest 80 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, was designed for a purpose - to highlight the plight of Victoria's faunal emblem.
The ...