NSW remaps old-growth forests to open up reserves to logging

Exclusive: 'Sneaky' rezoning exercise now under way to address timber shortfall

The New South Wales government is considering reclassifying old-growth forest to open up some protected reserves in the state's north-east to the timber industry.

The Natural Resources Commission of NSW has been asked to remap and rezone old-growth forest in state forest informal reserves that were previously off limits to logging. Environment groups are concerned the move is an attempt to unpick forest protections that have been in place for decades.