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Did you know native forests are still being logged in Victoria - mostly for wood chips which end up as cheap paper and card board products?

 

We're fighting to stop the destruction.

 

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The Victorian Forest Alliance brings together more than 30 groups actively protecting native forests across Victoria.

 

Collectively, we have decades of experience working with our local communities. Our mission is to protect and restore native forests across the state.

The forests we defend and restore are unceded lands. We recognise and respect that the forests which we work to protect exist on a number of different Sovereign Aboriginal Nations and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

Our citizen science project helps protect wildlife and threatened species in forests schedules for logging.

 

We work closely with citizen science groups like Kinglake Friends of the Forest, Gippsland Environment Group, and Wildlife of the Central Highlands (WOTCH) to conduct wildlife surveys in forests scheduled for logging.

Read more about the program here.

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New environment minister Ingrid Stitt must act to protect forests & end logging

January 18, 2023

We joined a number of environment groups to send a joint letter to newly appointed Environment Minister Ingrid Stitt to urgently act to end native forest logging in Victoria for good. Late last year VicForests lost three court cases, which found they were failing...

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ABC: VicForests slammed for its handling of FOI request following 'spying' allegations

March 09, 2023

A government agency that allegedly spied on a woman to "dig up dirt" has been slammed by Victoria's information commissioner, who said the agency should apologise for its response to her request...
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The Age: Taxpayer to pay $38 million as logging agency fails to supply timber

March 08, 2023

Victorian taxpayers will fork out more than $38 million after state-owned logging agency VicForests was forced to compensate customers and contractors it could not supply with timber and billed the Andrews government...
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SOSF: Planned burns to kill hundreds of Greater Gliders in Strathbogie Forest

March 03, 2023

Save our Strathbogie Forest and Euroa Environment conservation groups have condemned the planned burns scheduled for Strathbogie Forest this autumn for their failure to ensure protection of the nationally endangered Greater Glider...
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Top five native forest logging scandals in Victoria

February 27, 2023

It's been a massive couple of weeks for forests, with one of the biggest drivers of logging in Victoria Nippon calling it quits on continuing to supply their Maryvale Mill with wood...
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The Guardian: Australia's white paper industry is dead, leaving rural communities to pick through the pulp

February 17, 2023

For Pete Henry, who has worked at the Maryvale paper mill in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley for 42 years, there was no specific time when the decline in white paper began. “It’s been...
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The Age: Logging uncertainty: Nippon to close white paper mill in La Trobe Valley

February 15, 2023

Japanese paper giant Nippon will close Australia’s last white paper plant, meaning 200 jobs will be lost at the Maryvale mill and native forest logging in Victoria could end sooner than scheduled....
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MEDIA STATEMENT: Closure of white paper production at the Maryvale mill pulls the hand break on native forest logging in Victoria

February 15, 2023

The Victorian Forest Alliance understands from news this morning that the white paper production line at the Maryvale mill will be closing. The mill will continue to produce brown paper and packaging....
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MEDIA RELEASE: Emissions from native forest logging in south-eastern Australia are greater than Australia’s domestic aviation

February 13, 2023

13 February 2023   JOINT MEDIA RELEASE from The Tree Projects and Victorian Forest Alliance Recent reports have found that native forest logging in south-eastern Australia emits 11.2 million tonnes of carbon...
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Communities rally for protection of forests on the first sitting day of Parliament

February 08, 2023

What a fantastic turn out yesterday at the rally on Parliament steps in Naarm for the first sitting day. Community groups from across Victoria and supporters came together to rally for a...
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