Bob Brown loses legal challenge to native forest logging in Tasmania

Federal court loss a major blow to the Bob Brown Foundation, which had described it as the great forest case'

Former Greens leader Bob Brown's eponymous environment group has lost a legal challenge to native forest logging in Tasmania that claimed the industry's logging was at odds with federal conservation laws.

The case by the Bob Brown Foundation, lodged in the federal court in August and billed by the group as the great forest case", argued an effective exemption from environment laws granted to logging meant a regional forestry agreement between the federal and Tasmanian governments was not legally valid.