Victoria has banned native logging on Crown land from next year.
The Greens, environment groups, and sections of the federal Labor Party all want a nationwide end to native logging.
A motion to end logging across Australia was defeated at the Labor Party’s national conference in Brisbane this week, after strong lobbying from senior Labor figures.
“The decent thing here is that Tasmania should be following Victoria and Western Australia, and ending native logging and destruction and extinction of our species,” former Greens Senator Bob Brown recently told the ABC. Environment groups are thrilled about the impending end of Victoria’s native timber industry.
Victorian Agriculture Minister Gayle Tierney conceded the decision was hastened by costly legal action taken by environment groups that halted logging in the state’s Central Highlands and East Gippsland regions.
If the dickheads actually managed it and followed the rules proactively instead of bending and ignoring them. Reforest like they are supposed to it would be better to harvest sustainability locally rather than from rainforest overseas.
It is because they can’t do their own job properly and with vision that the backlash has intensified.
I cant see why any body would push to continue logging of old growth. Who would want it continuing if they aren’t getting something out of it?
…Kickbacks?
The true madness is that it’s government subsidised, it not profitable otherwise.