Ewingar Forest, a warm, temperate rainforest rich in biodiversity,
is once again being targeted for LOGGING!
After several protests from locals, including residents and local Indigenous
people, State Forests NSW
have decided to attack this forest again.
Nimbin Environment Centre held an action on state forestry Casino on the 29th of October and served them with a letter of demand.
Action is planned in Ewingar itself over the next weeks until this matter is heard in court.
Ewingar contains endangered species
such as the Yellow
Bellied Glider, Alberts
Lyre Bird,
Koala and many others (see Species List)
Harvest plans indicate that logging prescriptions have been watered down to
allow damage to Riparian zones, what SFNSW call “drainage lines”
which to the ordinary person translate to beautiful, high country creeks which
form the high part of the catchment for the Clarence River. Streams of pure,
highly energized water! The Clarence is one of the only rivers on the east
coast which has not been domesticated by dams, weirs etc; Ewingar part of
its catchment is on the south side of Timbarra creek where a Gold Mine was
stopped on environmental grounds primarily being that the river would be poisoned
by cyanide, arsenic and caustic soda run off.
Logging practices at Ewingar are quickly compromising the forests ecological
integrity and accelerating land degradation by exposing rainforest topsoil
to the effects of High U.V. radiation, destroying threatened species habitat,
and opening the forest to weed and feral animal invasion. Fires which swept
through protected areas from fires lit by State Forests at the commencement
of logging have badly damaged Habitat trees and caused nutrient levels to
increase beyond the natural balance maintained in an undisturbed forest.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT
TO STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING.
CONTACT THE NIMBIN ENVIRONMENT CENTRE 0266191441 FOR MORE INFORMATION ON
HOW YOU CAN HELP. THE FOREST NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT.
