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A picture speaks a thousand words

Nothing says it like these photos, showing what a forest should look like, and what many forests in Australia look like today.
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A pristine forest, Gulaga NP, SE NSW. Photo courtesy Ms Nina
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Pristine forest, Victoria. A rare sight today outside of National Parks.Photo courtesy Jude Deland
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Photo Arwen Dyer
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Habitat is destroyed, and regrowth forests are drier.These forests are often logged on 15 or 20 year cycles

Brown Mountain Victoria.

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This massive tree, hundreds of years old and once home to thousands of native creatures, was felled to make woodchips.

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Photo Tony Whan and Lisa Stone

NSW South Coast

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Mumbulla forest

The Eden Chipmill

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Half a million tonnes of logs a year are processed by this chipmill alone.

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Loading a log truck WA
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Post logging burn - intentionally lit. Brown Mountain Victoria. Photo courtesy Jude Deland

Devastation in the south east forests

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Prue Acton from SERCA in a ravaged landscape after logging for woodchips. 

Gulaga, 2009

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This fire was deliberately lit by ForestsNSW in extremely hot and dry weather conditions and got out of control, burning large areas of the national park.

Detritus

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Left behind after a logging operation. Photo Lisa and Tony

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Koalas - too good to lose.

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The koala above was photographed in Mumbulla forest on the south coast. Despite a government report that confirmed a small healthy colony of around 50 koalas, ForestsNSW logged this forest in March 2010. The one below is already gone, along with its critical habitat.

Sustainable forest management?

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This landscape is the result of a logging operation by ForestsNSW. Large, old habitat trees are legally required to be left for animals and birds, but in practice, this is rarely the case. Photo courtesy of Lisa and Tony.

Waste on the forest floor

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The Eden chipmill once claimed to use the 'waste' from high value timber logging, but in practice it uses only who logs and always has. The Crowns and butts, the 'waste' are then burnt on the ground.

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