Logging of old-growth forests should stop, Victorian environment department says

Court hears department and VicForests have not protected minimum area of old-growth forest required by law in East Gippsland

Logging in old-growth forests in Victoria should cease, according to testimony from the Victorian environment department in a court battle over logging in East Gippsland.

The Fauna and Flora Research Collective is pursuing VicForests and the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning in the supreme court.