After the fires, forests need protection
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After the fires, forests need protection
Dear Premier Andrews and Ministers D'Ambrosio and Thomas, It's been over a year since the catastrophic and unprecedented bushfires hit Victoria, wiping out forests and wildlife. Sadly, over a billion animals perished in the fires, and 1.25 million hectares of forest burnt in eastern Victoria. Reports from the last year are painting a scary picture for the future of Victoria's unique and precious wildlife. A recent report prepared by conservation groups has revealed critical areas of unburnt forests which provide habitat for bushfire affected wildlife are set to be logged. I'm appalled that despite calls from the Victorian community, the scientific community, conservationists, and your own Environment Department for logging to stop, fire-affected forests and precious unburnt areas are still being destroyed by your logging agency. Across Victoria - in areas outside and within the fire extent - precious wildlife habitat continues to be logged by your government. Many animals are facing a hard future, full of uncertainty. With the future risk of logging and climate-fuelled bushfires, the importance of protecting forests now is critical. Your own Environment Department has told your logging agency that continued logging will have devastating consequences for threatened species. Risk assessments for threatened species completed in October last year reaffirm the devastating impacts logging has on wildlife. But logging is still going ahead where these animals are found, and in some of the last remaining fragments of unburnt forests. Decisive, and meaningful action must be taken now to protect our forests and wildlife from current and future logging plans. Your plans to log thousands of hectares of forests cannot go ahead. There is no justification for this senseless destruction to continue. I expect you to take swift action to protect Victoria's forests, before it's too late.
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