Bob Brown Foundation ending logging in NSW native forests—Open Letter

Native forest logging is economically senseless and ecologically catastrophic – communities across New South Wales want to see it ended.

Native forest logging is economically senseless and ecologically catastrophic – communities across New South Wales want to see it ended.

On July 1, New South Wales Treasurer Daniel Mookhey will deliver his Statement of Corporate Intent for Forestry. Native forest logging must end and the Treasurer needs to hear it from you.

This statement sets out the business strategy for Forestry Corporation for the next financial year and is supposed to follow objectives of environmental sustainability, community interest and economic benefit.

If the Treasurer really wants to do right by the environment, communities and the economy, he needs to make sure that ending native forest logging is his top priority for the coming financial year.

We have put together an open letter, calling on the Treasurer to do the right thing and end native forest logging in New South Wales immediately. Let’s aim high – we need to see 20,000 names on it by the end of June.

Last year alone, Forestry Corporation received millions of dollars of fines for breaching their own guidelines, destroying critical habitat and removing hollow-bearing trees.

After the catastrophic 2019-20 bushfires, the Natural Resources Council reported that if logging continued in parts of the South Coast, the forests were at risk of never recovering. Rather than immediately protecting the forests, Forestry Corporation and the previous LNP Government maliciously hid the report from public view and refused to protect these forests from logging.

What is even worse is that your taxpayer dollars are propping up this destruction of native forests.

We need to encourage Treasurer Mookhey to make the right decision in his statement.

We know that the ALP can end native forest logging in New South Wales – and that our communities, economy and most critically, our environment and wildlife will benefit from real climate action.

If you just take one action with us on forests this June, make it this one.

Please sign our open letter to Treasurer Mookhey and we will present the signatures to him at the end of June.

Together we can end native forest logging in New South Wales.

For the forests,

Molly Coburn
National Community Campaigner

Jenny Weber
Campaigns Manager
Bob Brown Foundation