They try to tell us the trees will grow back, that soon enough it will look as though the chainsaws were never there. Well in Tasmania's Tombstone Creek, photos tell a thousand words. Check out these shocking before and after photos of a forest before and after logging. Even after 10 years the forest is fundamentally changed.
It's likely to be the same story for more and more of our NSW forests if the Government get's away with watering down the rules guiding logging in the state. It's up to you and I to keep our forests alive.
Please donate now to protect our state's forests.
Source: ABC's Background Briefing
Logging our native forests is bad for threatened wildlife like koalas and bad for our climate. It doesn't even make economic sense. Every hectare of native forest logged costs the taxpayer $495 (1). You and I are footing the bill for this destruction. These are funds that could be helping transition workers into sustainable, plantation timber industries that keep our threatened species safe.
With your help, we'll expose the truth of native forest logging. We'll leverage the media to make sure everyone knows and bolster a social media campaign to spread the word. Our budget is small, so your donation makes a big difference to the scope of what we can do.
Logging native forests doesn't make sense for our environment, our economy, or for the forestry workers who need support and training in long-term industries.
For nature,
Daisy
Campaigns Director
Nature Conservation Council of NSW
P.S. Donate now so our NSW forests don't end up as dead as Tombstone Creek in Tassy.
(1) http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/nsw-state-election-2015/nsw-state-election-2015-native-forest-logging-loses-495-a-hectare-greens-say-20150302-13snpp.html#ixzz3h9SFRdf9
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