Land and Environment Court fines state agency $360,000 for logging eucalyptus trees after black summer bushfires
The Forestry Corporation pleaded guilty to offences related to the logging of 53 trees in environmentally significant forest near Eden.The Forestry Corporation pleaded guilty to offences related to the logging of 53 trees in environmentally significant forest near Eden.
Justice Rachel Pepper agreed that any penalty imposed on the Forestry Corporation “must serve to deter it from future criminality”. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “The special conditions were introduced to protect parts of the forest that weren’t as damaged by fire, giving wildlife and biodiversity an opportunity to recover,” he said.
“We have since implemented measures to ensure such errors do not happen again. In our standard operations, mapping of environmentally sensitive areas into operational maps is an automated process, which eliminates the risk of human error.”
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