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Mass meeting endorses a state-wide action for forests
March 21, 2023
GECO's mass meeting event on Tuesday March 7th, 2023 was designed to build confidence within the environment movement to continue to organise for forests, despite increasing repression. It also proposed a common platform with First Nations struggles and the union movement in how we...
Read MoreSign up for our new Research and Submission group!
February 01, 2023
The new GECO research and submission group will work within GECO to help us develop strategy, write kick ass government submissions, and bring more stories to the spotlight with journalists this year. Want to be a part of this initiative? Go here to sign...
Read MoreUnburnt Errinundra refuge gets some protection!
December 07, 2022
Remember the Defend Errinundra campaign in 2021, which saw over 15 arrests and stopped logging for 5 months? Well, nearly 9000 ha (or over 4000 MCG’s worth!) of this critical climate refuge has now been put into Special Protection Zones, preventing logging. This is...
Read MoreWhy GECO fights for all native forests, not just old growth.
November 14, 2022
As a result of pressure from environment groups, including GECO’s campaign to save Kuark, in early November 2019 Daniel Andrews made the completely false post election declaration that 100% of old growth forest would be protected. It accounted to 90,000 ha at the time. ...
Read MoreEast Gippsland's Shire forestry paper supported by both Nationals and greenies?
October 18, 2022
An interesting predicament for anyone who knows the history of logging in East Gippsland. How could the council have unanimously endorsed a forestry position paper (p133) that both the Nationals and environment groups are both on board with? As it turns out, it's what...
Read MoreNew recommended protections for species post Black Summer. But how good are they?
October 07, 2022
Immediately after the 2019 - 2020 Black Summer bushfires, the state government rolled over the disastrous Regional Forest Agreements (which commit and define the practice of native forest logging). As part of this roll over the RFAs were required to assess and implement measures...
Read MoreFrom vulnerable to endangered; how the Andrews government has fuelled decline of the Greater Glider
July 15, 2022
In devastating, but unsurprising news, the iconic Southern Greater Glider was listed as endangered under federal environment laws last week. Native forest logging, climate change, and bushfires were all named as serious threats to the glider which led to the listing. The Greater Glider...
Read MoreNew Laws Criminalise Forest Protestors
June 08, 2022
On May 24th 2022 Mary-Anne Thomas - Victorian state ALP Minister for Agriculture and Regional Development and Ingrid Stitt - ALP Minister for Workplace Safety, introduced the Sustainable Forests Timber Amendment (Timber Harvesting Safety Zones) Bill 2022 aimed at further criminalising forest protests at logging...
Read MoreWhere do parties stand on forests for the federal election?
May 18, 2022
While native forest logging is primarily the responsibility of state governments, there is still federal overlap and responsibility. We've produced this scorecard on what the positions are of major parties for forests.
Read More'Defend Errinundra' Official Selection at union sponsored 'Dare to Struggle Film Festival'
May 06, 2022
GECO's campaign film 'Defend Errinundra' was showcased as part of the official selection of Sydney's Dare to Struggle Film Festival. Watch the film 'Defend Errinundra'.
Read MoreHow good was the Easter citizen science camp?
May 02, 2022
With the added attraction of senior botanist and East Gippsland specialist David Cameron, we had the biggest citizen science camp ever! Over 50 people attended for guided walks, talks & citizen science efforts and surveying. A new layer of people have been recharged and...
Read MoreDevastating post-bushfire logging - 2 years in photos
April 07, 2022
At the beginning of 2020 we wrote to VicForests CEO Monique Dawson about the devastating ecological impacts of post bushfire logging. She admitted to rejecting the advice from leading expert in the field David Lindenmayer, instead relying on VicForests own determination and enforcement on...
Read MoreBREAKING: Victorian government breaks old growth forest promise
February 25, 2022
Logging started this week in a patch of untouched forests in Swifts Creek on Gunnai Kurnai Country, despite the Andrews government promising to protect all old growth forests in November 2019. Greater Gliders and Yellow-bellied Gliders have also been found in the area, the...
Read MoreStop the changes to logging laws
February 22, 2022
The Andrews government wants to make dangerous changes to logging laws; not to strengthen forest protections, but to provide legal protection for more destructive logging and increase fire threats to communities. Take action and call on the Andrews government to ditch the dodgy changes...
Read MoreAndrews puts communities at risk & takes another swing at logging laws
February 21, 2022
Less than 6 months since the last changes to logging laws, the Andrews government is planning to axe additional rules designed to keep communities safe from bushfire risk. They are also proposing to weaken protections to threatened species, like the Tree Geebung, an endemic...
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