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Why we should all be fighting for our remaining forests
October 13, 2021
Defend Errinundra is a film that gives voice to bushfire survivors who thought they had lost everything in the summer of 2019/20, but then realised there are still many precious forests worth protecting.
Read MoreGiant 14m 'Cathedral' tree found in forests slated for logging
October 06, 2021
GECO volunteers have found a giant 14m circumference Errinundra Shining gum in forests slated for logging, only a few hundred metres from a main tourist road. The tree is around the same size and significance as the giant tree protected in the Old Growth...
Read MoreThanks to those who came to our citizen science weekend and online campaign launch!
October 01, 2021
Thanks so much to the regional Victorians who came out to our citizen science camp over the long weekend! We went surveying for Greater Gliders, and walked through forests that were recently added to the logging schedule near Errinundra on Bidewell and Monero Country....
Read MoreCourt injunction stops logging on Gunnai Country
September 01, 2021
Logging has been halted in an important area of forest home to critically endangered Masked Owl, and Yellow-bellied Gliders where GECO says logging was unlawful. Conservation groups sounded the alarm over illegal logging in the Colquhoun State Forest on Gunnai Kurnai Country in December...
Read MoreTerrifying future for Greater Glider as it's set to go from vulnerable to endangered
August 27, 2021
In just over 5 years Greater Gliders are going from vulnerable to endangered under federal legislation, and are also set to be listed as endangered in Victoria. A new study shows threatened species laws are failing to stop the decline of wildlife like the...
Read MoreAndrews government rushing through major changes to weaken logging laws
July 27, 2021
Alarming changes to the Code of Practice, or "the Code" are being rushed through by the Andrews government. The Environment Department have given communities less than a month to respond to the changes which are spread out over more than 350 pages of documents. ...
Read MoreHave your say in the government's bushfire review
July 12, 2021
In March 2020, just a few months after the devastating 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires, state and federal governments rolled over the controversial Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) which give logging an exemption from federal environment laws. A new clause has been introduced where a significant...
Read MoreUnburnt forests in Swifts Creek targeted for logging
June 21, 2021
The Victorian government is targeting forests in Swifts Creek on Gunai Kurnai Country for logging despite being an important refuge area for wildlife after the bushfires. Conservation groups and East Gippsland locals have recently visited the area and are shocked at the scale of...
Read MoreCourt injunction stops logging in Errinundra!
May 15, 2021
UPDATE: Two areas have been taken off the immediate schedule, and state-owned VicForests told the courts they won't log forests in 'Alla Turca' till next year, and all the logging machines have left the area! Environment East Gippsland (EEG) have secured a court injunction...
Read MoreBidewell-Maap custodians call for protection of Country from logging
May 04, 2021
Last year three generations of First Nations Bidewell families visited the Bidewell reserve on the Errinundra Plateau, where logging is scheduled. Over 60 coupes are on the schedule on Bidewell Country around Errinundra/Cottonwood forests But there is no consent from Bidewell Elder's to...
Read MoreGreat turn out at Easter Camp as protest enters 9th week!
April 07, 2021
Over 30 people attended our Easter citizen science and skill share camp over the long weekend, including Green Senator and First Nations activist Lidia Thorpe. Volunteers did surveys for Greater Gliders, tree measuring, and marked out a walk through an incredible area of threatened...
Read MoreVicForests pulls out of contentious logging coupe in Errinundra
March 27, 2021
VicForests have removed the coupe in Errinundra where community protests have halted logging for nearly 2 months from the immediate schedule. Multiple tree-sits had been set up in the area, two people have been arrested since the protests started at the end of January...
Read MoreEnvironment Department handballs wildlife protections to government logging agency
March 05, 2021
East Gippsland conservation groups were outraged to learn this week that environmental protections for threatened species detected in state forests are being designed by state owned logging company VicForests. GECO received notice from the Environment Department that a report submitted last year for detections...
Read MoreTake action! After the fires, forests need protection
February 23, 2021
A new report showing analysis of maps and data from the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires has revealed the significant areas of unburnt forests critical for bushfire affected wildlife are set to be logged by the Victorian Government. These and other important areas are still...
Read MoreForest refuges under threat from logging by the Andrews Government
February 23, 2021
A new report showing analysis of maps and data from the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires has revealed the significant areas of unburnt forests critical for bushfire affected wildlife are set to be logged by the Victorian Government. The report titled After the Fires: protecting...
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