Activists are calling for the end to聽native forest logging in NSW state forests. Rachel Evans听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.
Native forest
More than 100 people calling for urgent action to protect native forests from being logged rallied in Martin Place ahead of a debate in parliament. Jim McIlroy reports.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek鈥檚 new threatened species action plan does not go far enough, argues Greens聽Senator Janet Rice.
Campaigners called for an end to logging of Western Australia鈥檚 native forests, reports Petrina Harley.
Clearfelling old growth forest in Tasmania. Previously destroyed for woodchips, native forests are now in danger of being burned to create electricity.
Reports that the owner of Victoria鈥檚 Hazelwood coal power station, GDF Suez, has been considering plans to convert it into a co-firing facility, allowing it to burn native forest waste as well as brown coal, have been slammed by environmentalists.
On June 23, Australia's parliament voted to reduce the Renewable Energy Target for 2020 from 41 to 33 terawatt hours of renewable electricity, following a long struggle by the government to win support from minor party Senators for the cuts.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he 鈥渨ould frankly have liked to reduce the number a lot more鈥.
The deal he cut in the Senate will see the potential for 鈥渨ood waste鈥 from logging of native forests to be burned to generate 鈥渞enewable electricity鈥 as part of the target.
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