World Wildlife Fund Australia is urging environmental reforms in NSW after the state ranked last in its efforts to fight deforestation.
Bellingen Activist Network spokesperson Zianna Fuad said she was unsurprised by the scorecard.Newry State Forest lies within the proposed area for the state government's promised Great Koala National Park.Gumbaynggirr elders established a sacred fire, and at least two people have been charged after locking on to machinery.
"The forest areas with the highest conservation value are permanently protected and the areas harvested for timber are regrowth forests, which have been harvested for timber and regrown many times before," a spokesperson said. "We can't go on trying to eke out as much wood as Forestry Corporation want from the state forests because the wood's just not there after the fires of 2019-20," he said.
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