Regional Forest Agreement – National Parks Association of NSW

On the Campaign Trail – Winter 2019

Posted by NPA NSWon May 27, 2019May 14, 2019in Nature NSW, Winter 2019Leave a comment

Dr Oisín Sweeney
Senior Ecologist, National Parks Association of NSW

As the dust settles after the NSW election, NPA is taking stock of what the result means for forests and the Great Koala National Park.

Labor Must Not Give Logging Deals A Free Pass

Posted by NPA NSWon May 1, 2019May 2, 2019in Media ReleasesLeave a comment

Labor must ask whether industrialised native forest logging has a place in an era of climate and wildlife crises.

Lessons from the Murray-Darling disaster run deeper than water

Posted by NPA NSWon March 4, 2019in Autumn 2019Leave a comment

Environmental mismanagement runs deeper than the ecological tragedy gripping the Murray-Darling Basin. Recent policy decisions around native forest logging in NSW follow the same pattern of ignoring science and favouring extractive industry over the public interest, writes Dr Oisín Sweeney

New report details loss of social license for native forest woodchip industry

Posted by NPA NSWon February 23, 2019March 6, 2019in Media ReleasesLeave a comment

An alliance of environment groups has today released a report entitled ‘Social License Chipped Away: why support for woodchipping has collapsed in south-east NSW’.

Lack of Commonwealth accountability means forests destined to go the same way as rivers

Posted by NPA NSWon January 17, 2019in Media Releases2 Comments

Following briefings with Commonwealth and NSW environment and primary industry agencies, environment groups are more convinced than ever that the newly minted Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) will facilitate the continuing decline of threatened species, unsustainable destruction of forests and the loss of important benefits they provide to communities.

Destructive logging laws slammed by government scientists

Posted by NPA NSWon November 19, 2018November 19, 2018in Media Releases2 Comments

Freedom of information documents reveal damning assessment of Berejiklian government’s proposed new logging laws

As the NSW and federal governments are poised to sign off on 20-year extensions to controversial Regional Forest Agreements, documents acquired by the North East Forest Alliance under freedom of information show deep concerns within the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) about the impact of new logging laws on protected old-growth, rainforest and koalas.