Last night, WOTCH surveyors were shocked to see that machinery has moved in and logging operations have commenced at this tourist hotspot.
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The Supreme Court today dismissed VicForests’ application to vary WOTCH’s injunctions over part-logged coupes to allow regeneration burns.
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The Supreme Court has today granted WOTCH an interim injunction over 'Funny' coupe, an area in Toolangi State Forest where several Greater Gliders were detected.
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WOTCH surveyors have uncovered the destruction of two mature Tree Geebungs along a recently cleared logging track in an active VicForests coupe at Ballantynes Saddle.
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The Supreme Court has today ordered that VicForests halt logging in six coupes in Toolangi and Black Range State Forests, meaning 32 areas are now protected while our case proceeds.
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WOTCH today joined 40 other environmental groups in calling on Japan’s Nippon Paper Group to immediately remove any non-FSC Full Forest Management certified Australian native forest wood and wood fibre from its supply chains.
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Today the Supreme Court granted an injunction to protect another 13 logging coupes from destruction. This means a total of 26 areas of threatened species habitat are safe while our case is heard.
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On Saturday night, WOTCH detected a critically endangered Leadbeater’s Possum in an active logging coupe (480-509-0013 ‘Desilijic').
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Today we received the welcome news that an injunction has been granted to protect 13 logging coupes from destruction while our court case is heard.
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WOTCH has today taken VicForests to court to protect threatened species and their habitat in Victoria’s forests from logging!!
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Recently, the WOTCH team discovered an ecologically important patch of old-growth Mountain Ash containing multiple levels of high-conservation-value forest in a VicForests logging coupe.
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