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‘Ridiculous’: Government sits on forestry report as logging resumes
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The state government is refusing to release a report into how logging operations should change in the wake of the Black Summer bushfires even as felling begins in a sensitive South Coast region hit hard by the blazes.
Planning Minister Rob Stokes asked the Natural Resources Commission to examine forestry operations after the Environment Protection Authority and Forestry Corp, the state-owned logging body, clashed over so-called site specific conditions that limited the amount of native trees that could be felled in state forests.
Volunteers in the Northern Rivers are working to revitalise areas impacted by the Black Summer bushfires, to support the critically endangered Coastal Emu. It's estimated only 50 birds remain on the North Coast. Bungawalbyn Landcare is working with six private landholders across 250 hectare . by Adam Murray | NBN News-News, Sport & Weather