We have all personally experienced the harrowing bushfire season, and witnessed the devastation to our native forests. 21 per cent of Australia's forests have been burned, with a loss of over one billion animals, some driven to the brink of extinction.
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So how does Forest Corporation NSW respond?
As soon as the threat of immediate fire danger passed, it was business-as-usual, with FCNSW back in logging harder than ever. For the last two months, log trucks have thundered down the Lorne Road from Comboyne State Forest with logs of up to 1.6 metres in diameter - in other words, prime habitat trees.
Isn't it obvious that with so much forest destroyed, it's critical to preserve unburned habitat for surviving species?
Why isn't there a moratorium on logging for time to assess the damage?
Why are we still foregoing urgent forest preservation to feed untenable logging quotas, for a state-owned corporation that makes an average loss of $11 million per annum?
The State Government needs to direct FCNSW to stop logging immediately.
We have to preserve our remaining forests for habitat, soil and water health, and the critical function of carbon sequestration.
Past Forest Commission foresters who valued forest health would be appalled to see the damage wrought on remaining forests by FCNSW in its shameless bid for the dollar.
Jane McIntyre
Lorne
