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VicForests denies illegal logging claims

Posted July 1, 2010 20:00:00
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/01/2942598.htm?site=melbourne&section=news
Victorian timber arm VicForests has denied it is illegally cutting down old trees and threatening endangered species in logging operations north-east of Melbourne.
The environmental body Flora and Fauna Research Collective has today launched court action against VicForests.
It is accusing the state-owned timber entity of breaching the Sustainable Forests Timber Act, through [...]

July 7, 2010 · admin · No Comments
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VicForest charge

By Kath Gannaway

6th July 2010 02:00:32 AM
http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/story/91185
MyEnvironment member Adam Menary says current forestry
 
A PRELIMINARY hearing into claims VicForests has illegally logged Leadbeater’s possum habitat in Toolangi will be heard at Ringwood Magistrates’ Court in August.
Research group The Fauna and Flora Research Collective has brought criminal charges against the State Government’s forestry arm in what [...]

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Council calls for stop to native logging in Yarra Ranges

28 Jun 10 @ 07:19am by Emily Webb
 http://lilydale-yarra-valley-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/council-calls-for-stop-to-native-logging-in-yarra-ranges/
YARRA Ranges Council is putting its weight behind a community push to stop native forest logging within the shire.
At a packed meeting on June 23, residents from Toolangi and Healesville heard from council representatives and environmental lobby and conservation groups.
Lyster ward councillor Samantha Dunn told the audience of [...]

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VicForests accused of felling old-growth mountain ash

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/vicforests-accused-of-felling-oldgrowth-mountain-ash-20100628-zf5o.html
ADAM MORTON
June 29, 2010

THE Victorian government’s forestry arm will face a legal challenge over claims it illegally logged old-growth forest and increased the risk to a threatened species.
Environmental groups accuse VicForests of felling dozens of pre-1900 ash eucalypts, breaching the Central Highlands Forest Management Plan.
An impending legal case will also claim the timber agency failed [...]

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