Logging starts in Warrup
The Forest Products Commission has started logging Warrup forest today (23rd Jan 2012)
Warrup forest near Bridgetown is a critical refuge for cockatoos and other native fauna including numbats and woylies.
Like so many other high conservation value forests it should have been protected at the 2001 election, but it wasn't, and these spectacular areas are being targetted by the FPC because they are the last places where the agency can still source good quality timber.
Forests that have been intensively logged - particularly those that have been logged since woodchipping became a leading factor in the logging industry - are not recovering from logging operations and as a result are not providing good quality timber.
It is for that reason that the industry has become economically unviable in Western Australia and mills are closing in the south-west; there are too few areas that contain good quality timber to supply the industry.
Warrup is a magnificent forest which is providing food and nesting habitat to wildlife that are struggling to survive.
Our native forests are worth far more standing. Let the Environment Minister and Premier know you will not vote for a party that presides over wildlife extinctions.
Related Media Release from 13/02/12:
- Loggers routinely destroy nesting hollows - for $13.45 per tonne || 13/02/12
- Cockatoos in Crisis || 13/01/12
- State logging agency using misleading figures to hide native forest losses || 13/10/11
- Deanmill can't reliably reopen || 05/09/11
- Carbon policy announcement good for WA’s forests and communities 11 July 2011 || 11/07/11
- Forestry Minister refuses to rule out burning native forest logs to generate electricity || 04/11/10
- Fixing the WA Forest Crisis - Forest Protection Needed || 02/11/10
- Fixing the WA Forest Crisis || 01/10/10
- EPA forest audit finds jarrah logging unsustainable || 13/09/10
