Secret document urges native logging halt in NSW regions hit hard by black summer bushfires
Exclusive: Natural Resources Commission report not released by state government calls for suspension of timber harvesting in three extreme risk' zones
The New South Wales government has kept secret a document calling for a halt to native logging in regions hit hard by the black summer bushfires and recommending revising agreements to account for the increasing threat of global heating .
The Natural Resources Commission report on the Coastal Integrated Forestry Operations Approval (IFOA), a copy of which was obtained by Guardian Australia, called for the suspension of timber harvesting for a minimum of three years in three zones it deemed to be extreme risk". These are Narooma and Nowra on the south coast and Taree on the mid-north coast.
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