Email the PM to end native forest logging
Native forest logging is a national issue – and every government has a role to play in ending it for good.
Environmental Justice Australia is releasing a new investigative report, Following the money: The unfinished transition away from native forest logging.
The report digs into the claimed $1.5 billion in public funding for Victoria’s transition away from native forest logging – where the money went, what it delivered, and why forests still lack permanent legal protection.
Victoria shows what can happen when governments promise an end to native forest logging but leave loopholes, weak standards and unfinished protections in place. As NSW and Tasmania face their own decisions about the future of native forest logging, this report is a warning – and a call to action.
Join us in calling for national leadership to end native forest logging for good:
- close the loopholes that keep native forest timber moving
- protect forests through law
- publish a clear public account of transition funding, and
- ensure public money supports genuine transition for forests, workers and communities.
Why this matters
This report matters because Victorians were promised an end to native forest logging, a transition to plantations and permanent protection for forests – but the job is still unfinished.
Native forests store carbon, protect water and provide irreplaceable habitat for threatened wildlife like koalas, greater gliders, swift parrots and Leadbeater’s possums. They need permanent legal protection – not bulldozers and loopholes.
More than a billion dollars was committed to the transition. Communities deserve to know where that money went, what it delivered, and whether it helped secure a genuine transition for forests, workers and communities.
