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Forestry Panel misses obvious solutions to logging harms
May 08, 2026
Today’s release of the NSW Independent Forestry Panel’s Stakeholder Consultation Report again highlights the risk of continuing to spend taxpayer money to cut down NSW native forests. “The evidence is overwhelming that native forest logging is environmentally destructive and loss making, and the obvious...
Read MoreFederal Intervention Needed to Save Styx River Endangered Greater Glider Population
April 28, 2026
The failure of Federal and State Governments to protect endangered Greater Gliders has been dramatically highlighted in Styx River State Forest on the New England tablelands near Armidale, according to Forest Alliance NSW. Citizen scientists in Styx River State Forest, north-east of Armidale on...
Read More$1.1 million logging blunder exposes taxpayer waste and illegal destruction of ancient forests
March 18, 2026
The Forest Alliance NSW has today criticised in strongest possible terms Forestry Corporation of NSW following a Land and Environment Court ruling confirming the illegal destruction of ancient trees in Wild Cattle Creek State Forest, exposing more than $1.1 million in taxpayer-funded costs. On...
Read MoreForest Alliance warns EPA of systemic logging risks to endangered greater gliders
March 13, 2026
Forestry Alliance NSW sent the below letter to the NSW EPA in March 2026 to raise concerns around risks to greater gliders due to non-compliant logging operations in Glenbog State Forest. I am writing on behalf of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW and...
Read MoreTaiwanese and Australian groups jointly expose concerns over Australian forestry products — Major Taiwanese buyer should agree to clarify supply chain risks
March 13, 2026
Taiwanese environmental organization, Environmental Rights Foundation (ERF), recently worked with Australian environmental groups, including the Rainforest Information Centre and the South East Region Conservation Alliance (SERCA), to raise concerns based on credible information indicating that major Australian timber supplier Pentarch Forestry and its upstream log supplier NSW Forestry Corporation (Forestry...
Read MoreForest Alliance submission on the National Environmental Standard for Matters of National Significance
January 30, 2026
1. Introduction The Forest Alliance NSW welcomes the opportunity to comment on the proposed Matters of National Environmental Significance (MNES) National Environmental Standard. Forest Alliance NSW is a coalition of national, state-wide and local environmental organisations and community groups working to protect native forests...
Read MoreStatement on the draft Improved Native Forest Management Method: Carbon credits must not be used to subsidise ongoing native forest logging
January 30, 2026
The Forest Alliance NSW is a coalition of over 20 environmental NGOs working to protect NSW’s native forests, and the species that depend on them, from the damaging effects of industrial native forest logging. NSW’s public native forests have significant carbon value, and ending...
Read MoreForestry Corporation posts another multi-million dollar loss
December 03, 2025
Forestry Corporation has posted another multi-million-dollar loss in its native forest division, continuing a decade-long trend of unprofitable operations. Forestry Corporation’s annual report outlines a loss of $32 million for the 2024–25 financial year. This follows losses of 29 million dollars in 2023–24, 15...
Read MoreFederal deal on nature laws could finally stop logging in nationally important habitat across NSW
November 27, 2025
The Forest Alliance NSW has welcomed today’s deal between the Labor Government and the Greens to remove the long-standing exemption that allowed native forest logging to avoid federal environment laws. Forest Alliance NSW Senior Campaigner Clancy Barnard said the reform is long overdue. “For...
Read MoreLogging extended in NSW western forests without environmental assessment
November 25, 2025
The Alliance sent the below letter to the NSW Government following their decision to extend the Brigalow–Nandewar and South-Western Cypress IFOAs in November 2025. Minister Sharpe and Minister Moriarty, We are writing on behalf of the Forest Alliance NSW to express our deep disappointment...
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