How the decades-long fight to save WA's old growth forests was finally won
2 years, 10 months ago

How the decades-long fight to save WA's old growth forests was finally won

ABC  

For the past 50 years, forest activists have been campaigning to end native logging in one of Australia's most diverse natural environments, Western Australia's native forests. Jess Beckerling, convenor of the WA Forest Alliance, says the decision to end logging after a "very long fight" is the result of people joining forces. By the 2001 WA state election, the preservation of old growth forest in the south-west of WA had become one of Labor's key election policies. "In just over two years time, native forest logging will finally end in WA … that's an absolutely massive breakthrough, both in terms of policy and in terms of culture," she says.

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Biden administration old growth forest proposal doesn't ban logging, but still angers industry

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