The Agriculture Minister has been urged to immediately halt negotiations to extend native forest logging agreements, with critics saying it makes no environmental or economic sense.
The NSW Agriculture Minister has been urged to halt negotiations to extend North Coast Wood Supply Agreements, with critics saying native forest logging makes no environmental or economic sense post-bushfires and now floods.
If extended, the contracts would lock Forestry Corporation into harvesting "existing annual quantities" of native trees in state forests. "State forests generate renewable timber products … in a way that is carefully managed so that forest values are preserved, and forests continue to grow and produce renewable timber in perpetuity", Mr Saunders said."We need a restructure of this industry, a transition out of native forest logging into sustainable plantations", Mr Field said.
The extent of burnt or dead trees such as in Myrtle State Forest show a reduction in harvestable timber.
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