Ask your MP to speak up for our native forests

Today - you can make a difference to help push the NSW Government to exit native forest logging and shift towards a plantation based timber industry for NSW.

Please take this action today to call on your local NSW Member of Parliament to become an advocate to exit native forest logging.

We are asking NSW MPs to tell the recently established Independent Forestry Panel that they support an exit from native forest logging. They need to know their local constituents are pushing them to make that call.

The ongoing logging of public native forests by the Forestry Corporation NSW is costing ...

Today - you can make a difference to help push the NSW Government to exit native forest logging and shift towards a plantation based timber industry for NSW.

Please take this action today to call on your local NSW Member of Parliament to become an advocate to exit native forest logging.

We are asking NSW MPs to tell the recently established Independent Forestry Panel that they support an exit from native forest logging. They need to know their local constituents are pushing them to make that call.

The ongoing logging of public native forests by the Forestry Corporation NSW is costing taxpayers money, destroying the homes of endangered species like the Koala and Greater Glider, and distracting from the need to invest in a plantation based future.

In the last five years Forestry Corporation NSW has been prosecuted eight times and fined over $1.5million. Their rule-breaking behaviour is systemic.

Native forest logging is hugely wasteful. 90% or more is left to rot on the forest floor, ending up as wood chips, firewood and other low value products.

Our forests and forest animals need a plan for the future, and so does the timber industry and its workers and you can help today by sending a clear message to your local MP that you want them to support an end to native forest logging in NSW.

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I’m asking for your advocacy to support an immediate exit from native forest logging

Our forests and forest animals need a plan for the future, and so do timber industry workers.

The NSW Government has established the Independent Forestry Panel to provide advice on the future of our forests and the timber industry in NSW.

As your constituent, I’m asking you to advocate for an urgent exit from native forest logging and move towards a plantation based timber industry for NSW.

The ongoing logging of public native forests by the Forestry Corporation NSW is costing taxpayers money, destroying the homes of endangered species like the Koala and Greater Glider, and distracting from the need to invest in a plantation based future.

In the last five years Forestry Corporation NSW has been prosecuted eight times and fined over $1.5million. Their rule-breaking behaviour is systemic.

Native forest logging is hugely wasteful. 90% or more is left to rot on the forest floor, ending up as wood chips, firewood and other low value products.

In contrast to native forests, pine plantations are profitable, support many more jobs and deliver the timber needed for housing construction.

Stopping native forest logging in NSW would prevent 76 million tonnes of carbon entering the atmosphere by 2050. That’s equivalent to converting 240,000 homes to solar power.

Australia exports about five times the volume of timber compared to imports, including significant quantities of plantation timber. The opportunities for growth in the timber industry is in keeping our timber resources onshore and manufacturing higher-value timber products here in NSW, not continuing native forest logging and exporting plantation timbers.

Victoria and Western Australia have recently ended public native forest logging recognising the future is in plantations, not in native forest logging. South Australia and the ACT ended logging decades ago.

There are significant opportunities to recognise the carbon value of native forests while promoting co-management with traditional owners and supporting ecological restoration alongside recreation and nature-based tourism.

The NSW timber industry and its workers need a plan for the future and so do our forests.

As your constituent, I am asking you to reach out to the Independent Forestry Panel and advocate for an exit from native forest logging and a shift towards a plantation based timber industry for NSW.

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