Australian Forests and Climate Alliance
@AFCA_Forests
AFCA: Australian Forests and Climate Alliance is a national network for forest and climate campaigners around the country
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http://www.forestsandclimate.org.au 05-04-2018 02:38:00
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The Wilderness Society has filed a landmark appeal in the Supreme Court of Tasmania over its right to criminally charge Forestry Tasmania for alleged illegal logging in the Styx Valley of the Giants, home to some of the world’s tallest trees. More here: wilderness.org.au/landmark_appea…
The EPA has been a bit slow to issue a Stop Work Order in Shea's Nob so Greg The Glider & Local Community did it themselves.
#SaveOurGliders
#SaveSheasNob
#SaveCloudsCreek
#dorrigoplateau #clarencevalley #NSWpol
FCNSW in nocturnal greater glider surveys at Sheas Nob state forest fudged the timing. Found 1 GG and no den trees.
Logging is decimating beautiful GG & Koala habitats on steep country in Clarence Valley catchments.
#CitizenScience found 6 GGs
CEPA calls for #stopworkorder NOW!
WA's enviro 'regulator opposed Alcoa’s mining mgt program “in its entirety” because it lacked “clarity & coherence”'
But Roger Cook OVERRODE all that to APPROVE bauxite mining in a jarrah forest that also posed a high risk to Perth's water supply🤯
watoday.com.au/national/weste…
To date, the 4 IEAs of the Snowy 2.0 project have shown serious shortfalls.
More than a dozen warnings, enforceable undertakings, cautions & fines issued to Snowy Hydro & its contractors by the DPHI & EPA over the past 2yrs were particularly concerning.
aboutregional.com.au/national-parks…
Oh look, @Tanya_Plibersek's approved destruction of Lee Point has brought international attention and condemnation to Australia, including from Dr Jane Goodall!
au.news.yahoo.com/aussie-housing… - By Michael Dahlstrom
LABOR KICKS KOALAS IN THE TEETH.
Despite pre-election promises to conserve koala habitat..the NSW government seems intent on consigning them to history. What are you thinking Chris Minns ? Penny Sharpe Tara Moriarty Sue Higginson Bellingen Activist Network Bob Brown Foundation #NSWPOL
Join Victorian Forest Alliance for a webinar series on the emerging threats to Victoria's native forests: unscientific prescribed burning, inadequate environmental protection laws & logged areas left as wastelands.
6:30-7:30pm Thursday May 9 | FREE
Register here: tinyurl.com/3mtvyye4
Bunch of soggy Knitting Nannas converge on Kirribilli House to tell Anthony Albanese that we are the RisingTideAustralia for our kids and grandkids.
We deserve a safe home and environment but #fossil fuel companies fan the flames of #ClimateBoiling and #Floods
Time 2 MoveBeyondCoal
Prof David Lindenmayer has just written a myth busting tour de force of a book called, “The Forest Wars - The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests”
He talked Sean O'Shannessy through a few of those myths for 💧Environmental as Anything💧 in this #podcast
environmentalasanything.podbean.com/e/prof-david-l…
Forestry Corp faces fresh glider negligence claims
illawarramercury.com.au/story/8615143/…
The NSW Forestry Corporation has been accused of breaching rules designed to protect endangered greater gliders - 188 times in eight weeks.
#saveourgliders #stoploggingTShabitats
#savecloudscreek