E-bulletin Archive

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2017

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27th February 2017 – Forests future at the crossroads – HELP!

  • Great Forest National Park

15th February 2017 – Online poll – your vote needed

  • Broilers enter the brawl

9th February 2017 – Magic Pudding – no more

  • Help needed – to lob a TRUTH bomb
  • RFA – No way!
  • Heyfield mill
  • Collapse one collapse all
  • Why the secrecy?
  • VicForests employs a biodiversity PR man from the US
  • EPA gets $45 million
  • This is a shocker!
  • Not before time!
  • The global logging Mafia exposed!
  • The Baw Baw frog lives!
  • Survey Techniques for Citizen Scientists
  • Like a giant tree or two?
  • Caught on camera!
  • Cats now cover over 99% of Australia
  • Forests Forever 2017

7th February 2017 – Kuark case settled, no court 8th Feb

  • VicForests costs argument settled

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2016

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23rd December 2016 – Legal Update Kuark

  • Kuark legal update

8th December 2016 – Trial update, unions, frogs and more

  • Kuark trial date adjourned & crowdfunding
  • Laptop needed – Windows 7 pref.
  • VEAC ‘mini-enquiry’ into forest values
  • Bunnings Slaughterhouse campaign a winner
  • Forest Chrissy cards
  • Review of state enviro laws
  • Frogs and Flying foxes
  • Frogs halt logging
  • Unions take pay cut to keep paper mill open!
  • Loggers, make way for tourism

16th October 2016 – News in a Nutshell

  • VicForests CEO jumps ship
  • Forest markets campaign targets Bunnings
  • For plant and bird geeks
  • Burning Forests for Global Energy?
  • Council candidates – help!
  • Beautiful images of the Kuark forests

23rd September 2016 – Bigger than Brown Mountain

  • Bigger than Brown Mountain
  • Taskforce’s first industry/logger agreement
  • Fire consultation – a flaming waste of time
  • New head of Parks Victoria sacked
  • Pine pulp transformed into hardwood
  • Forestry Tasmania booted off the dole
  • The revolving door
  • Tassie chip exports rise 75% – from plantations
  • NZ declares a forest has rights
  • Fracking finished
  • Citizen Science Camp – Grand Final Weekend
  • Parks Vic wants your feedback
  • Plan for how to improve Vic’s enviro laws
  • The Hidden Life of Trees extracts
  • EEG AGM

20th August 2016 – High drama becomes high five!

  • A high five for Gliders
  • Forest Taskforce progress
  • Our two legal actions – Kuark and the Owls
  • Update on storm-trashed woodchip jetty
  • VicForests to employ field ecologist in EG
  • Fed election outcome
  • Extinct White-footed Rabbit Rat bones discovered
  • Film on Victoria’s logging – crowd funding
  • Science and Reports
  • Other news

1st July 2016 – $5M for 1 logging job – vote forests!

  • Vote Forests
  • $5 million for one logging job?!
  • Mills bite the dust
  • Victorian Forest taskforce
  • Other news
  • Science and Reports

25th June 2016 Legal updates on forests – and more …

  • Owl protection after the fires
  • Threatened species and rainforest in the Kuark forests
  • Climate change whacks a worthy target – the CHIPMILL
  • Other news
  • Science and Reports

22nd February 2016 – Gaining ground for Gliders

  • Gaining ground for Gliders – EEG is again suing VicForests in the Supreme Court.

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2015

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5th November 2015 – Hug This

  • Hug This
  • This is a winner – literally!
  • Forests Forever 2016
  • EEG AGM

11th October 2015 – ‘Controlled’ Burns

  • Online Petition
  • Marlo Wildlife Reduction Burn
  • Unforgivable – Another DELWP escaped burn
  • 2015 Environmentalist of the Year

17th July 2015 Legal win – 2000 ha set aside for owls

  • Over 2000 ha set aside for Owls
  • Threatened species summit
  • How citizens win and what it means for Australians – free seminar
  • Have your say on the new risk-based target bushfire response plan

29th June 2015 Owls in court, burns canned, forests now furnace fuel? and more…

  • 90 logging coupes in legal case still on hold.
  • FFGA, landclearing laws and the Biodiversity Strategy to be reviewed.
  • Logging in East Gippsland costing us $5.5 million a year.
  • Throwing native forests into electricity furnaces given the nod (and money).
  • Those who documented illegal rainforest logging prosecuted (the same people were shortlisted for a UN enviro award).
  • Green certification for logging abandoned by VicForests.
  • Burning the bush fails the effectiveness test.

27th May 2015 Owls in waiting  Forests in the crosshairs

  • Preparing to go to court for the Owls
  • Bill tabled to burn forests as ‘renewable energy’.

Woodchipping to go ballistic – 16 May 2015

  • Burning forests as ‘renewable energy’ is madness. Please help!

News in a Nutshell – 28th April 2015

  • VicForests busted illegally logging rainforests – again
  • Will Abbott define forest powered electricity as renewable? Please help NOW.
  • Bushfire mitigation solution – log more forests – $1.5M
  • Aussie birds more advanced
  • Frackman the movie
  • Stephen Mayne – planet-friendly investment choices
  • No burning forests to power your TV
  • ‘Love’ us on facebook!
  • Three petitions for the forests

 

News in a Nutshell 27th March 2015

  • Owls Legal Case
  • Meeting the minister
  • Kuark Forest petition
  • Autumn burns
  • Lyrebirds – forests gardeners
  • Rare East Gippy koala found
  • VicForests begs Nippon
  • World woodchipping
  • Gas rise to hurt mill
  • $300M given to victims of Black Saturday Murrundindi fire
  • Forest carbon worth more in Emissions reduction scheme
  • Dog baiting and mammal decline in eucalyptus forests
  • Forests Forever Easter Camp

 

News in a Nutshell – 27th February 2015

  • Legal News
    • Battling for Owls
    • Battling for the Mallee Birds
  • Fires and Burning
    • Review of 5% burn target
    • The damage by Gammage – exposed
  • Forests Forever Easter Ecology Camp 2015

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2014

[collapse collapsed]Xmas Forest Update – 19th December 2014

  • Eden chipmill truck count no log trucks coming from Victoria.
  • VicForests has agreed to extend their moratorium on not logging 81 areas of potential critical owl habitat
  • Christmas Sale in the EEG online shop
  • Auction of a Rare Bags bag
     

Forest News #48 – 7th November 2014

  • Paid pyromania?
  • East Gippy owls in the international spotlight
  • Will the price of gas kill off the Maryvale pulp mill?
  • Stockman Mine – pollie blunders   
  • The preferential voting system explained
  • A 20 year licence in East Gippsland – for biomass burning?
  • Montana Mill – FSC
  • WA logging gains shonky eco-label
  • Abbott’s Climate Plan encourages forest furnaces
  • Redgum Parks now WON’T be logged
  • Leaf litter – it’s not scary
  • New East Gippsland Orchid book
  • Pocket guide to foothill plants in East Gippsland

Suing for Owls – 23rd September 2014

  • Environment East Gippsland is suing the State government for the Owls

Forest Update #47 – 15th August 2014

  • VicForests celebrated 10 years of looting, lying, pillaging and bludging.
  • VicForests in decline but Vic still the top Ozzie logging state
  • Iron-ore mine denied use of chipmill port – a good sign!
  • 60ha glasshouses – to use ‘waste’ wood – from where?
  • Logging increases forests flammability – new research.
  • Blitz burn regime of 5% questioned by Neil Comrie.
  • The wildlife cost of DEPI burns
  • Goongerah-Deddick fire fighting failures – report.
  • CSIRO dumping 33 logging scientists
  • SA blue gum is 2,000 years old
  • Maremma dogs as active conservationists for Bandicoots!
  • Kick the Yellow pages
  • Pizza fundraiser at famous East Gippsland low energy house and gardens
  • Change your power supplier
  • Buy a plant ID booklet – for you and friends
  • Help Wanted

Forest Update #46 – 26th June 2014

  • VicForests fails to gain board position
  • International spotlight on Abbott’s env atrocities
  • Move to greener electricity and save forests
  • Legal news
  • Govt arsonists – inquiry needed
  • Judicial enquiry essential!
  • Most fires are started by humans
  • DEPI leaked report
  • ABBOTT to BURN forests to keep us safe
  • ‘Renewable energy’ – the new woodchip industry?
  • HRL backs off biomass
  • Mother nature worth $145 trillion to us
  • Feral cat eradication – Greg Hunt
  • Antechinus – our wee marsupial ‘mice’ – active now!
  • Squandered environment funds while wildlife goes extinct
  • Endangered Quoll recovery plan – 12 yrs bilateral dithering
  • Approval of deadly 1080 poison dumped from the air
  • Cockroaches – they turn leaf litter into soil!
  • Grey-headed Flying Foxes
  • Auditor General finally investigates VicForests
  • State budget – cut, slash, burn and pillage
  • The Age attacks VicForests
  • Approval for cattle grazing in Alpine National Park.
  • Killing the Lakes with salt – for the offshore oil and gas industry.
  • Tree Hugging Scientifically Proven to Improve Your Health
  • World Heritage Cttee rejects Abbott’s claim.
  • NOWA NOWA – the new Pilbara of the South?
  • VicForests put EG tenders on long term hold 
  • Donate and/or Join EEG
  • Plant ID pocket guide
  • Boycott Greenhouse tomatoes

Forest Update #45 – 13th May 2014

  • The end of the woodchipping era is near.

Forest Update #44 – 10th April 2014

  • Minister Walsh apologises to EEG.
  • Protesters get good behavior bonds.
  • Whales today – forests tomorrow?
  • Herald-Sun breakthrough!
  • New research shows logging regrowth increases fire intensity.
  • Overview of the Goongerah fires.
  • Coastal incineration plan.
  • Also see new research on fire below
  • Why was our summer so hot and dry?
  • Old trees store more carbon.
  • State of the Environment Report for Victoria – not good
  • How forests carry out their own fire suppression management.
  • The many talents of fungi – including as essential forest composters.
  • Dingo poisoning should be stopped to protect native mammals.
  • Forest protesters get off lightly
  • Protester laws toughened by Napthine
  • Court appeal proves that Victoria’s laws don’t protect endangered wildlife.
  • State logging code rewritten to wipe out accountability (and wildlife)
  • Feds plan to rewrite conservation laws to allow Fed env minister to ignore environmental advice.
  • Environmental boycott campaigns could be made illegal.
  • Never fear – EEG is still working on two more legal cases which we have been gathering evidence for. We look forward to announcing them when the papers are served.

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2013

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Forest Update #43 – 1st August 2013

  • One stop chop
  • Trees as carbon credit generators
  • Log trucks cut by half
  • News on the biggest threat to forests – BIOMASS
  • Hopeful news on biomass
  • Rudds new trading scheme – wildlife to suffer
  • Clean Energy Council hijacked.
  • Incidentally
  • Take Action
  • Aust-Indonesia carbon project abandoned
  • Plantations burnt
  • Koalas shredded
  • Quit Coal rally
  • AGM

Forest Update #42 – 8th July 2013

  • Court date set
  • Rudd talks with Business Council on environment laws
  • Stable Population Party
  • Logging and CO2
  • 170,000 ha of Tassie forests as World Heritage
  • Napthine gives private developers our National Parks
  • Napthine passes the free-reign logging law BUT
  • VicForests as the Black Knight
  • Boral woodchips bite the dust
  • VicForests operates despite being insolvent
  • Facebook’s dirty tricks
  • East Gippy giant in the Guardian
  • ‘green label’ AFS envelopes a con
  • Boycott Arnotts

Forest Update #41 – 2nd June(PDF)

  • We’re suing the government again!
  • Eden woodchippers post a $2.6M loss
  • VicForests back in Court –appeal on Leadbeaters Possum
  • Greens candidate for Gippsland
  • Add your name to harangue state pollies on logging law changes
  • World Env Day – Wednesday in Melbourne! Come along
  • Forests as electricity – cyber letter to power retailers.
  • Tassie’s Peace/Fleece Deal – are you confused?
  • Govt out-burns bushfires.
  • $7M more to help destroy trees
  • 45 years of overkill logging – govt slow to respond

Forest Update #40 – 17th March 2013

  • Forests Forever Ecology Camp
  • EEG’s mobile Solar Powered trailer for sale
  • The green seminars that come to you
  • Half-baked plan on environmental powers falls over
  • EEG forced VicForests to pull out of National Rainforest Sites.
  • EEG forced DSE to unlock gated logging areas.
  • Biomass plans for Eden chipmill – withdrawn.
  • Toilet sign tickles the public.
  • New E Gipp plant ID booklet
  • EEG FOIs legal costs to Victorians on grazing ban appeal.
  • Auditor General report – DSE and DPI are ‘ineffective’.
  • Fed. government investigates State government for breach of law.
  • Logging is not sustainable – Professor Lindenmayer
  • New research – forests used to bring rain inland.
  • Global decline of big old trees
  • Logging – a waste of forests.
  • Fire fighters demand action on climate change
  • Coal emissions = 50 times that of bushfires.
  • The Harrietville fire
  • Fanning the flames of hysteria over national parks
  • Recent handouts to logging.
  • Logging towns get new kids footy jerseys but no dividends to us
  • Logging looks to welfare bailouts to ward off undertakers
  • Mt Jersey Giants – not giant enough
  • Prospectors free to dig in Victoria’s national parks
  • Gina brings the Coal Seam Gas threat to Gippsland.
  • Mr Napthine – and Victoria’s enviro record.
  • Rare flying fox colony in Bairnsdale set to be cut down.
  • Bastion Point mega-boat ramp approved.
  • Drop that recycled paper campaign or you get it in the neck!
  • Forests of Western Victoria to be logged.
  • Government hikes VCAT fees 300%.
  • Qld govt. goes troppo
  • Doubts over paper giant’s rainforest pledge
  • GM tree plantations – a menace or a miracle?
  • Nano fibres and lignin technology look to world’s trees and forests.

Forest Update #39 – 12th February 2013

  • News and views
  • Help needed
  • Forests Forever
  • Proof readers or writers needed
  • Stories we’d like to expand on for our members

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2012

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Forest Update #38 – 19th October 2012

  • Simple things you can do.
  • Gunns bites the dust.
  • Eden’s woodchip cargo cult coming undone.
  • UK Greens support and Bolivia writes a law for Mother Earth.
  • Recycled paper plans for Maryvale pulp factory.
  • Wood conference struggling for attendees.
  • Ballieu on the nose – environment.
  • $80 billion to save species – a bargain.
  • Cutting ‘Green tape’ – Gillard bows to Business Council.
  • Business Council of Aust claims on cost of env laws exposed.
  • East Gippy Council elections.
  • Baillieu to weaken land clearing laws.
  • Deadly mercury levels in the Gippsland lakes.
  • Tassie – still run by loggers.
  • Asian countries want our wood pellets.
  • Eighth year – VicForests makes another loss.
  • VicForests wipes out more rare wildlife.
  • VicForests fib about ‘science’.

Forest Update #37 – 21st August 2012

  • VicForests excused for illegal logging
  • VicForests’ ‘safety zones’ – iron curtain
  • VicForests’ new scientific discovery
  • 197,000ha of fried forests
  • Rethink burn targets – Comrie
  • Burn plans – have your say by 29th Aug
  • Planet Ark shenanigans
  • New sugar cane paper
  • Thugs attack environmentalists
  • Logging road bend – $250,000
  • Wood waste energy plans thwarted
  • Logging stuffs irrigators
  • Councils pay $2500 to logging lobbyists
  • Gillard plans to weaken federal environment laws
  • Benambra-Baillieu mine link
  • Westpac finances rainforest logging
  • Baillieu hides bull on the cows
  • Duck rescuer trumped up charges dismissed
  • Libs proudly pro-plastic bag
  • Environment East Gippsland AGM 22nd Sept
  • Concert for Toolangi
  • Must see TV

Forest Update #36 – 20th July 2012

  • Planet Ark turns Dark
  • FSC timber certification – murky
  • Leadbeaters – back to court
  • CSIRO declines off to join EEG
  • VicForests plays hide and seek with FOI docs
  • Spin doctors outnumber journos
  • EG logger fined for malicious damage in NSW
  • Eden chipmill in decline
  • Harvey Norman’s hardwood floors – hard on wildlife
  • Cats compete with Eastern quolls
  • WA Labor and forest protection
  • Fed Libs plan to lock-up protesters
  • Poison baits avoided by dogs
  • $800 from kids talents
  • Plastic choking the oceans
  • Warming waters makes them toxic

Forest Update #35 – 27th June 2012

  • VicForests caught out burning sawlogs!
  • EEG pursues VicForests through Freedom of Information.
  • Rio+20 outcome.
  • Online shop.
  • Correction to Quoll article.

Forest Update #34 – 05th May 2012

  • Eden export chipmill makes a loss!
  • Gunns trading halt.
  • Vic Budget axes environment by $130M.
  • Vic Koalas left in the lurch.
  • Govt sluggish on recording species finds.
  • FOI for survey results.
  • Burnt quoll found after prescribed burn.
  • Govt still spoon feeds logging lobby groups – over quarter of a million.
  • Logging accountability – off the rails in Victoria.
  • Govt not playing by FOI laws.
  • EDO – Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act
  • Auto monthly donations – tax deductible
  • Leave a legacy in your will

Forest Update #33 – 25th April 2012

  • Rare Potoroos – search and destroy
  • VicForests pays some of our legal costs
  • Supreme Court decision to be appealed
  • Gunns jilted
  • Aerial baiting plans stopped
  • Gillard plans to gut Federal Environment laws
  • NSW Coalition plans to log National Parks
  • Baillieu reviews green laws
  • Illegal logging – Australia walks away
  • Government Eco-cidal burns continue
  • Cow poo is bad for our drinking water
  • The global GE gum tree campaign
  • The true cost of corporate profit
  • The Climate Challenge ABC this Thursday 8:30pm
  • Legal seminar: Victoria’s flora and fauna – what Guarantee?
  • Play Tag in Harvey Norman stores

Forest Update #32 – 17th March 2012

  • Forest Furnaces still in limbo – Still Urgent.
  • Leadbeaters Possum court case – not a straight loss.
  • Ninety additional coupes for East Gippsland.
  • Forests Forever 2012.

Forest Update #31 – 17th February 2012

  • Sylvia Creek Supreme Court case – and other legal news
  • Green Turtles to Sue Government For Climate Change – this Saturday
  • Gunns finds a partner for their pulpmill
  • AUSTRALIAN native forest is being woodchipped to be burned in Japan.
  • US navy inspects Qld biofuel plant
  • Gippsland’s Gunns mill stops log deliveries
  • Eden woodchip mill biofuel pellet plant approved by Shire
  • Forests forever Ecology Camp
  • Burning forests back on the agenda?
  • MyEnvironment’s plea for help

Forest Update #30 – 2nd February 2012

  • Baillieu regime – destroying the law to destroy the environment
  • Cobb Hill – Rainforest Site of National Significance – our next legal stoush!
  • VicForests still refusing to pay EEG’s legal costs
  • Please help us – http://www.givenow.com.au/environmenteastgippsland
  • Eden woodchip mill’s incinerator pellet factory loses legal challenge
  • Gillard’s carbon trickery
  • Alps grazing lobbyists put on VicForests’ board
  • Juggling Acts – and who administers them
  • Central Highland’s summer of action – Toolangi
  • Tasmania forest deal turning to rubble
  • Baillieu’s new top advisor sees red on greens
  • Pulp and paper industry to fall in 2012
  • Job on offer at The Wilderness Society
  • Fraudulent squandering of loggers’ exit packages uncovered
  • Prescribed burns – add to climate problems
  • Plans to stop illegal timber imports – effective?
  • UK company boycotts Tassie wood
  • Env. Minister Ryan Smith’s CV
  • Media bias (nnnho!) on climate stories
  • Aussies – environment half as important as economy
  • Time Magazine’s person of the year for 2011 -‘The protester’
  • Book into this year’s Forests Forever Ecology Camp at Easter
  • Click and submit a letter against the pellet factory
  • Learn about climate solutions – zero emissions – Melb Uni 6th Feb
  • Nominate your favourite species – Federal Govt wants new listings
  • Upcoming EDO events

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2011

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Forest Update #29 – 6th December 2011

  • please tell the govt what you think about changes to planned burning of our forests.
  • the Durban round of climate talks – don’t let forests be left out again.
  • VicForests – ongoing illegal rainforest logging!
  • new laws on illegally logged timber – overseas!
  • legal opinion on proposed changes to the logging Code for threatened wildlife.
  • “Lean thinking”??
  • Logged forests – Fail to regrow
  • A plea to help the WA bushfire victims – rare cockatoos.

Forest Update #28 – 10th November 2011

  • Govt twists Code to approve endangered wildlife destruction.
  • Logging now being shifted to agriculture minister.
  • Forestry Tasmania derails the Tassie agreement.
  • Forest carbon, cash and crime – sell the carbon and log it too.
  • Blitz burning – out of control
  • Keeping it in the family
  • Logging lobbyists letter.
  • Nippon woodchip company in slow-down mode.
  • DSE creates an old growth walk.
  • Tell Baillieu we want rare wildlife protected.
  • Send in your comments to the formal public consultation.
  • Join in the ‘Backwards March’ this Sunday.
  • Help keep pressure on Harvey Norman.
  • Facebookers – help the cause against woodchipping.
  • Climate Change Adaptation – have your say.
  • Five tips for lobbying your local pollie.

Forest Update #27 – 7th October 2011

  • Harvey Norman actions across the country – this Saturday.
  • Leadbeaters possum to have its day in court – Feb 6th.
  • Central Highlands has only 1% old growth remaining.
  • Nippon’s share price tumbles.
  • VicForests’ commissions a counter report – then trips on its own lies.
  • Reflex paper finally stripped of dodgy eco-label.
  • Logging unions shuns
  • East Gippy biomass spruiker exposed
  • Alps grazing ‘trails’ – Baillieu keeps digging downwards.
  • Logging machinery destroyed in mysterious fire in central Gippsland.
  • Local councils jack-up over road damage by trucks.
  • Another year – another dead loss for VicForests.
  • New dolphin species discovered in the Gippsland Lakes.
  • World Banks Forest Advisor – forests more valuable than as logs.
  • Quolls get a reprieve – Feds step in on poison bait plans.
  • Kmart caught selling rainforest destruction
  • Blitz burn fire management gets a rewrite – have your say
  • Forest photography exhibition – SE Australia’s best.
  • World logging takes new direction – from paper to power supply.

Forest Update #26 – 5th September 2011

  • Important announcement regarding Forests and the Law workshop
  • Nat Threatened species day – endangered Quolls to be poisoned
  • Local environment group issues writ for injunction on logging
  • Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act planned for emasculation
  • In the next Potoroo Review

Forest Update #25 – 15th July 2011

  • Biomass burning knocked out by new carbon price scheme
  • Biodiversity gets $1 billion – yes Billion
  • CSIRO – Forests are key carbon soaks
  • Gunns Triabunna mill in Tassie sold for tourism
  • Gunns sells off Green Triangle assets
  • Aust Paper looks at Green Triangle pine as feed stock
  • Nippon Paper puts up its prices
  • The Last Stand and Markets for Change
  • PaperlinX and Aust Envelopes goes under
  • Green School comes to Melbourne
  • Nippon loses battle against ‘greenie’

Forest Update #24 – 24th June 2011

  • Urgent crunch time for climate policy – send an email to ministers.
  • Send a mini-rocket to those who approved the wood pellet plant.
  • VicForests caught exporting whole logs to China – and give multiple choice excuses.
  • Tassie deal signed.
  • Triabunna mill sold to logging interests.
  • Planet Ark helps the Planet Rapers.
  • Amazon set for a mega plunder
  • Last minute end of FY reminder

Forest Update #23 – 5th June 2011

  • World Environment Day – observe with a letter to the Minister – attached
  • TAX time – please DONATE to EEG (for more fun court action)
  • The BAILLIEU GOVERNMENT and the environment
  • THE CLIMATE COMMISSION – forests finally get a look–in
  • TREE PHOTOS needed – for book
  • DSE gives TREE COUNTING job to VicForests
  • MARKETS FOR CHANGE – new forest group starts up
  • VicForests appoints a new ‘CONSERVATION BIOLOGIST’!
  • ‘CONSERVATION BIOLOGIST’ get’s it wrong – and worrying quotes
  • REFLEX paper action upsets govt.
  • REFLEX’S GREEN TICK to be officially STRIPPED
  • REFLEX’s parent company makes big loss
  • $4 MILLION to cure smoky grapes
  • YOUNGN’S wanted – to lobby their polly
  • ORBOST Chamber of COMMERCE and LOGGING
  • WOODCHIP MILL wants to get into making forest pellets to BURN
  • CSIRO report – FORESTS and CABON STORAGE
  • WOODCHIPPERS export more for less profit
  • TWEG moves in – to promote BIOMASS

Forest Update #22 – 24th March 2011

  • Climate Action Summit – Melb April 8–9th
  • How Japan’s paper mills fared
  • VicForests saves a big tree
  • Mobile phone needed
  • Radio National interview – forests and the law.
  • Forests Forever Ecology Camp – this Easter
  • Submissions due Fed Government Timber Industry Inquiry
  • Wildlife surveys continue
  • Duck shooting – vote now!

Forest Update #21 – 1st March 2011

  • Court orders.
  • VicForests – more to come
  • David Lindenmayer on logging and fires
  • Sound recordist needed
  • Coalition on the record – surveys not good enough.
  • Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act now shared by logging interests.
  • Forests left out of carbon pricing.
  • Forest booklet – photographers needed
  • Book now for the Easter Forests Forever Ecology Camp
  • Wipe for Wildlife – International Year of Forests
  • Duck Rescue help wanted
  • Global Timber and Wood Products Market Update
  • Australia’s Wood and Wood Products Industry Situation and Outlook
  • Useful links
  • Ethical paper pledge
  • Tasmania doing a back-flip on agreement

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2010

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Forest Update #20 – 14th December 2010

  • Yearly wrap up
  • Alexandra mill closes
  • 2011 UN’s International Year of Forests
  • Brown Mountain Wines for the festive season
  • Election outcome
  • New Ministers of the Coalition Government
  • Tassie day of action – tomorrow 15th Dec
  • The real forest debate
  • Tax ruling on charities
  • Feds offer $32 million to stop Indonesian deforestation.
  • Illegal timber imports – Feds recycle last election pledge
  • VicForests Exposed!
  • Forests Forever 2011
  • Party at Brown Mountain
  • Mailing list subscriptions

Forest Update #19 – 13th October 2010

  • Peaceful action on Joe Helper’s office in the city – people wanted.
  • VAFI want to log parks and burn forests.
  • New Parks proclaimed for a third time.
  • Brown Mountain celebration – 31st Oct – book now.
  • Wanted – message texters.
  • New EEG forest policy.
  • Gunns announces out of Native Forests in WA.
  • Environment debate at RMIT with pollies.
  • EEG AGM 6th November.
  • Unrelated to trees, but still about caring.

Forest Update #18 – 16th September 2010

  • Final court orders and costs – appeal process
  • Gunns Tassie decision – Victorian implications
  • Legal Seminar on forests – Goongerah
  • Invitation to Brown Mt – Cup Weekend feast
  • Protection Zone changes – outrage
  • Good Supreme Court or Parlt House rally photos wanted
  • Accountant needed to explain VF’s annual report
  • Questions for Jennings, Brumby or Helper
  • Timber Communities Australia – teachers as the problem
  • Spring Potoroo newsletter 199 – online

Forest Update #17 – 1st September 2010

  • Coupes removed from logging plans.
  • Brown Mt judgment highlights.
  • East Gippy legal workshop/summary/implications (and Melbourne too).
  • Brown Mt celebration and feast – in the forest.
  • State election – heads up.
  • Federal Election – what it could mean.
  • Get onto Get-Up!

Federal Election Forest Update #16 – 19th August 2010

  • Federal Election
  • Burning forests for electricity
  • Special protection zones
  • Update from Flora Research Collective
  • Logging Lobby Spin
  • Political parties enviro cred
  • Feast for Forests reminder

Forest Update #15 – 16th August 2010

  • Court Win – What does it mean?
  • Will the government change the laws to avoid protecting forests?
  • Feast for Forests Yarraville Sunday 29th August 2010

Bushfires Royal Commission Final Report Update #14- 3rd August 2010

Forest Update #13 – 21st July 2010

  • Potoroo newsletter on its way – join up/renew
  • Corflute signs with forest slogans – for sale.
  • FSC complaintWestern/central Vic logging
  • Valley of the Giant’s Walk is NOT authorized by DSE
  • Court judgment

Forest Update #12 – 29th June 2010

  • How you can help
  • Age article on VicForests illegally destroying old growth
    in the Central Highlands.

Forest Update #11 – 7th May 2010

  • Melbourne Meeting
  • Goodwill Wines Gives to Brown Mt.
  • Forest Stewardship Council
  • Ongoing scrutiny of VicForests
  • National Day of action against forest furnaces.

Forest Update #10 – 23rd April 2010

  • Mothers Day Cards
  • No decision yet
  • EEG is on Facebook
  • Stateline
  • Potoroo Clips now on EEG website
  • Biomass Plant
  • Melbourne get-togthers
  • More cameras purchased
  • Iceland volcano

Forest Update #8 – 16th March 2010

  • The Brown Mountain Landmark trial continues

Forest Update #7 – 3rd March 2010

  • The Brown Mountain Landmark trial has begun!

Forest Update #6 – 10th March 2010

  • Calling All Artists event

Forest Update #3 – Valentines Day 5th February 2010

Forest Update #2 – 28th February 2010

  • Court starts Monday – observers welcome.
  • Artists for Old Growth event – March 11th 2010.
  • Rod Quantock raised $$$ and awareness.
  • Letter Writers.
  • RFA review deadline on Sunday.

Forest Update #1 Rod Quantock Show- 20th February 2010

Update Brown Mountain – Landmark court case – 15th February 2010

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