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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...

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Help 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 ...

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Over 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...

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Calls 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...

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Calls 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...

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Unlawful 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...

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Victorian 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...

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Illagl 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...

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VicForests 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...

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Citizen 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...

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Spring 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...

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Bob 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....

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Citizen 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...

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High 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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