Court challenge to logging in Victorian highlands could have national impact

Green groups' case against logging in central highlands mountain ash forests could have repercussions for NSW and WA

Green groups are challenging the validity of a Victorian forestry agreement in the federal court in a case that could have repercussions for the Australian logging industry as a whole.

Environmental Justice Australia, acting on behalf of Friends of the Leadbeater's Possum, has argued that the regional forest agreement covering Victoria's central highlands region, which is home to the critically endangered possum, is invalid because the Victorian government failed to perform the requisite reviews.