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May 28, 2018

Surveys conducted last year during GECO citizen science camps have resulted in protection of three proposed logging coupes that provide habitat for Endangered Orbost Spiny Crayfish and Greater Gliders. The environment department wrote to GECO and the Fauna and Flora Research Collective last week...

May 22, 2018

On International Day for Biological diversity we're celebrating East Gippsland's forests and caling for their protection in East Gippsland's Emerald Link.

May 16, 2018

On Thursday this week VicForests will appear in the Orbost Magistrates court facing charges for logging protected rainforest in East Gippsland. The environmental regulator of the logging industry (Department of Environment Land Water and Planning or DELWP) laid the charges after community groups GECO...

April 13, 2018

The Greater Glider is heading for extinction, but logging in critical habitat continues with outdated and weak or non existent protections. The state government have approved logging to commence in critical habitat for Greater Gliders in the Queensborough river forest in East Gippsland. Please...

March 27, 2018

Goongerah Environment Centre Office (GECO) has welcomed the state government’s announcement that some old growth forests in East Gippsland’s Kuark forest will be protected, but has raised concern over continued logging in environmentally sensitive forests under the Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs). Forest in the...

March 16, 2018

The state government has stopped logging in the Queensborough river forests where protected Greater Gliders were detected by our survey team. The report we submitted on Wednesday morning with our friends at the FFRC Inc documented 11 Greater Gliders within a distance of 1km,...

March 15, 2018

UPDATE!!  - Thanks to our surveys and hundreds of emails and calls LOGGING HAS BEEN STOPPED!! The Department will now conduct 'verification' surveys. Stay tuned for updates and thanks for your support! Twenty year long dodgy logging deals called "Regional Forest Agreements" exempt logging...

March 14, 2018

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas is the sole shareholder of government logging agency VicForests.  He has the power to direct VicForests to stop logging in protected wildlife habitat and comply with the law. 

March 14, 2018

A colony of protected Greater Gliders has been found in VicForests logging coupe 892-507-0020 in the Queensborough river forest. Surveys conducted by GECO and Fauna and Flora Research Collective have documented a 'high density' of Greater Gliders triggering legal protection of the forest.

March 09, 2018

Media Release - Friday March 9th VicForest has been charged for illegally logging rainforest in an East Gippsland logging coupe. The logging operation took place in the Serpentine Creek Rainforest Site of Significance near Cann River, causing serious damage to protected warm temperate rainforest....

March 09, 2018

Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald, March 9  Author: Adam Carey Victoria’s state-owned forestry corporation has been charged with illegal logging of a rainforest in East Gippsland after a near two-year investigation. The Andrews government’s Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning is...

March 04, 2018

Originally published in The Age - By Farrah Tomazin, 25 February, 2018 The Andrews government has spent years investigating claims of unlawful logging against its state-owned timber company without enforcing any penalties. Documents reveal Victoria's environment department is currently probing 27 alleged forest breaches...

February 28, 2018

Police have broken up a peaceful blockade of an old growth forest logging operation at Granite Mountain near Buldah in far East Gippsland. A man who climbed a tripod structure blocking access to the old growth logging coupe was arrested at 6pm yesterday evening....

February 07, 2018

Government officials from the Department of Economic Development Jobs Transport (DEDJTR) and Resources are expected to break up a forest blockade this morning in far East Gippsland. Four cars carrying 6 authorised officers from the department and one local police officer are on the...

January 29, 2018

Conservationists from the Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) are continuing to blockade an old growth forest logging operation at Granite Mountain in remote East Gippsland today. The blockade was established on Monday January 22nd, and has halted logging in the contentious area for seven consecutive...