Update on Rainforest Logging


May 2005 

Dingo Creek is being logged. It is a National Site of Significance for Rainforest and contains powerful owl habitat. It is surrounded by the Errinundra National Park. Already a 10 ha coupe (842/522/11) has been completed, and they are currently logging a 30ha coupe, which goes down to the border of the National Park. The coupe number for the current coupe is 842/522/13. See below for more info on Dingo Creek.

Click here for the latest photos of logging at Dingo Creek.

Click here for how to make a submission on the Draft Action Statement for Rainforest.

December 2004

Victorian Rainforest Network (VRN), DSE and GECO had a meeting and it was agreed that DSE would assess all scheduled coupes in National Rainforest Sites before they were logged. This is presently taking place in coupes scheduled for this summer. VRN and GECO will visit the coupes with DSE in December. So far the DSE have visited Dingo Creek and a coupe at the end of Hammonds Road which borders the National Park on three sides and contains peat bog and Errinundra Plum Pine (both extremely rare). There is also a thinnings coupe that contains rainforest in the same area. Unfortunately the DSE is looking only at Rainforest in the coupes to warrant protection rather than the value of these coupes to the rainforest core zones in these sites. For instance Dingo Creek area is a fire buffer for the largest stand of Sassafras on the mainland fire. So although these areas were designated for protection by leading rainforest botanists, Flora and Fauna in Orbost have so far stated that they believe it is adequate to log around the rainforest areas in these coupes and all's well.

Dingo Creek is marked out, ready to be logged this Summer. Coupes in Dingo Creek National Rain Site and bordering National Park is scheduled to be logged this Summer they are simply waiting for the go ahead from Flora and Fauna which judging from conversations with them will probably happen just before Christmas/New Year or shortly after. If anyone went on our walks last year, the area in Dingo Creek where you walked will be logged, gone, doesn't exist. Although not marked out yet is seems the end of Hammonds Road is also designated to go for this Summer, another coupe people walked through last summer ready to be changed into a eucalypt farm. We have here a window of opportunity, because the machines are not there yet, to at the least hassle the minister letters, faxes , phonecalls, demos outside offices, (ministers, vicforests, DSE) in Melbourne, letters to Newspapers, embarrass the minister out of logging our Rainforest Sites and Old Growth.

Ellery forest is being logged now. Old-growth wet forest in Yabby Creek part of the Fern Tree Creek catchment has just commenced. There is seriously just remnants of old-growth in state forest left now. The low diversity regeneration does not cater for the species that need these vital state forest corridors for survival. This is not the first time these current forests have undergone climate change but it is the first time they have undergone climate change with such a modified vegetation regime it is unknown if seed dispersal and hence habitat survival can cope in this current climate change.

Rainforest links

Victorian Rainforest Network

Photos of rainforest scheduled to be logged

Data about rainforest in East Gipplsand

Dingo Creek Court Case (external link)

Dingo Creek blockade 2001

Photos of Dingo Creek 2001

Hammonds Rd Blockade 1999 (scroll down)

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