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Southern Forests Project – fieldwork update

Posted by NPA NSWon February 27, 2025February 25, 2025in Autumn 2025Leave a comment

Kate Carroll, Conservation Projects Officer, NPA NSW

The Southern Forests National Park is one of NPA’s most ambitious proposals, aiming to secure permanent protection for over 350,000 hectares of public native forests in southeastern NSW. Stretching from Jervis Bay to the Victorian border, this proposal would significantly expand the NPWS estate in the region to approximately 930,000 hectares. These forests, home to gliders, owls, potoroos, and other threatened species, have long been impacted by unsustainable logging and now face ecological collapse. Conserving them within the protected area network is critical for species longevity and survival.

Forests not Woodlots

Posted by NPA NSWon September 1, 2017in Native Forest Logging, Spring 2017Leave a comment

^{Margaret Blakers, director of the Green Institute and a long-time environmentalist}

Rosemary Beaumont’s article is timely. The Great Southern Forest is part of a larger picture which will see the fate of over 6 million hectares of Australia’s most loved native forests decided between now and 2021. Either they will be handed to the logging industry for another 20 years, effectively to become woodlots, or the federal government will resume environmental oversight and give the forests a chance.