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Court dismisses criminal charges against conservationists who exposed rainforest logging
February 23, 2017
Two conservationists from Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) had charges dismissed in the Orbost Magistrates Court today. Ed Hill and Joe Henderson were prosecuted for entering a logging area where they documented and reported logging of protected rainforest in East Gippsland in April 2015. Hill...
Read MoreHelp W-Tree community save the Basin Creek rainforest complex
February 15, 2017
The W-Tree community near the Snowy river in East Gippsland, need your help to stop logging of the Basin Creek rainforest complex. This spectacular rainforest area is under threat from VicForests logging operations. Click here to sign the petition to Victorian Environment Minister Lily D'Ambrosio ...
Read MoreOver 100 attend snap vigil for Victoria's threatened species
February 07, 2017
Over 100 people attended a snap vigil for Victoria's forest dependent threatened species on the steps of Victorian parliament house yesterday. The vigil was called just four days ago in response the the Victorian and Federal government's decision to extend the East Gippsland Regional...
Read MoreVictorian and Federal Governments extend logging agreement with no plan for threatened species
February 03, 2017
Environment groups are raising concerns about the Victorian and federal governments decision to extend the East Gippsland Regional Forest Agreement (RFA). The RFA is a 20 year agreement between state and federal governments that exempts logging from complying with Federal environment law. It was...
Read MoreCalls to end logging’s legal exemption
December 20, 2016
This week a coalition of 25 environment groups is urging Premier Daniel Andrews to abandon his plans to extend the legal exemption given to the native forest logging industry in East Gippsland. The East Gippsland Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) is a 20-year arrangement between...
Read MoreCalls for Premier Andrews to make logging comply with federal law
December 19, 2016
Since the late 1990s the logging industry in Victoria has been exempt from adhering to federal environment laws that protect our nationally threatened wildlife. Only native forest logging gets this special exemption known as a 'regional forest agreement' (RFA) In February 2017 the East...
Read MoreUnlawful logging stoped after endangered crayfish find
November 16, 2016
Logging has been stopped for the second time in one week in the Goongerah forest block. Last week VicForests were forced to stop logging at Mt. Jersey after GECO raised concerns with the state government about the threat logging posed to the endangered large...
Read MoreVictorian government halts illegal logging of Endangered frog habitat
November 09, 2016
Logging has been stopped by the Department of Environment Land Water and Planning (DELWP) in forest near Goongerah. The forest is habitat for the endangered large brown tree frog (Litoria littlejohni), a species thought to be extinct from Victoria until rediscovered by GECO volunteers...
Read MoreIllagl logging starts in endangered large brown tree frog habitat
November 09, 2016
Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) has sent a report to the state government detailing illegal logging at Mt. Jersey in East Gippsland. GECO are concerned that logging is impacting on habitat for the Endangered large brown tree frog and protected rainforest. The large brown tree...
Read MoreVicForests to log Endangered frog forest on Mt.Jersey
November 07, 2016
VicForests has placed boundary tapes marking out an area of endangered species habitat on Mt. Jersey, near Goongerah. This area is a stronghold for the endangered Large Brown Tree-frog (Litoria littlejohni). The frog was thought to be possibly extinct from Victoria until last year...
Read MoreCitizen scientists converge in Goongerah forest
November 03, 2016
Over fifty people converged in Goongerah this weekend for the ninth GECO citizen science survey camp. People from across Gippsland, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra took part in old growth forest walks, forest carbon accounting surveys, remote fauna camera deployment and data collection, spotlighting surveys...
Read MoreSpring citizen science camp collects data to save forests
October 03, 2016
We had a busy time at our citizen science camp last weekend, surveying forests threatened by logging. We deployed five fauna cameras for endangered Spot-tailed Quolls and Long Footed Potoroos, surveyed for Greater Gliders and mapped areas of protected rainforest, all within VicForests scheduled...
Read MoreBob Brown awards GECO Community Environment Prize
September 20, 2016
Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) has been awarded the Bob Brown Foundation Community Environment Prize as part of Bob Brown’s annual Environmentalist of Year awards. The awards recognise and encourage the commitment and courage of environmentalists in their pursuit of environmental protection, preservation and justice....
Read MoreCitizen Scientists take action on Threatened Species Day
September 07, 2016
Today is National Threatened Species Day, held each year to commemorate the tragic death of the last Tasmanian Tiger that died in captivity in Hobart in 1936. We teamed up with other citizen science groups Wildlife of the Central Highlands (WOTCH) and Fauna and...
Read MoreHigh density of Greater Gliders found in unlawful VicForests logging coupe
August 08, 2016
GECO has submitted a report to the state government this morning detailing a high density of Greater gliders within the controversial 'Abra Cadabra' logging coupe in the Cottonwood Range. This coupe was set aside for conservation by the Victorian Government's Forest Industry Taskforce, but...
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