Logging Victoria's burnt forest would hurt 30 threatened species, study says

Conservationists say timber millers may be subject to legal exposure' if they accept logs from VicForests salvage logging'

A proposal by Victoria's state-owned forestry agency to log forest burnt in the summer bushfires would affect habitat for more than 30 threatened species, according to analysis by The Wilderness Society.

VicForests has proposed opening 59 new coupes in the state's north-east and East Gippsland regions for so-called salvage logging of burnt native forests.