Defending native forests
From towering Mountain Ash trees to ancient Gondwanan rainforests found nowhere else on Earth, Australia’s native forests are magnificent. We’re using the law to defend vital native forests from logging.
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From towering Mountain Ash trees to ancient Gondwanan rainforests found nowhere else on Earth, Australia’s native forests are magnificent. We’re using the law to defend vital native forests from logging.
Citizen scientists are continuing their epic three-year battle in the Victorian Supreme Court to protect endangered species from industrial logging.
Across three complex and lengthy court cases against VicForests, EJA lawyers protected our native forests and the wildlife that call them the home. Together these cases – and those run by our friends – set critical court precedents, protected thousands of hectares of forest and were instrumental in the government’s decision to end native forest logging.
5 October 2023 Sixty environment, community and legal organisations have signed onto a letter calling for Victoria’s new Premier, Jacinta Allan, to wind up VicForests. You can read the open letter here. Environmental Justice Australia forest campaigner, Luke Chamberlain said: “The decision by former Premier Dan Andrews to end native forest logging in Victoria was
JULY 25, 2023 The Victorian Government’s logging agency, VicForests, is under fire for allegations of misleading marketing and state-sponsored greenwashing. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been asked to investigate whether statements on the VicForests website may be false and misleading within the meaning of sections 18 and 29 of Australian Consumer Law.
There were emotional scenes inside the Victorian Supreme Court of Appeal in June 2023 as environment groups won a long-running legal fight against VicForests.
An extraordinary victory that was decades in the making: the Victorian government has announced native forest logging will end by 1 January 2024.
23 May 2023 Environmental groups are celebrating the end of native forest logging in Victoria, after decades of campaigning by citizen scientists, community groups and Traditional Owners. The announcement of the end of native forest logging is testament to the efforts of forest protectors and citizen scientists who took action to make sure that VicForests
The Andrews Labor Government has legal grounds to suspend its controversial wood pulp contract, according to new legal advice from top silk Perry Herzfeld SC and barrister Daye Gang. The barristers, who specialise in public law, have advised The Wilderness Society that the Andrews Government could suspend its wood pulp supply contract before 2030 without
The Supreme Court of Victoria has handed down two landmark judgments, both finding state-owned logging agency VicForests has logged illegally.