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"Victoria’s native forest logging industry ended on January 1 this year. The
news was met with jubilation from conservationists.
But did logging really end? Last week, an endangered southern greater glider
was found dead next to an area logged to create fuel breaks along the Yarra
Ranges National Park. The news triggered outrage.
By itself, the death of one glider would be sad. But its death speaks to a
larger problem. Three kinds of logging are continuing in Victoria’s forests,
for fuel breaks, salvage logging after windstorms, and logging on private land.
The first two are linked to the government’s Forestry Transition Program, which
states:
Harvest and haulage workers will be offered alternative work in forest and
land management, enabling them to continue to work in the forests they know
so well and contribute to bushfire risk reduction.
These types of logging are likely to continue for years to come – and with less
oversight than under the old regime, when logging was done by the state
government agency VicForests."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
