VicForests allowed to resume logging despite risk of ‘irreversible damage’ in fire-hit Gippsland
by Adam Morton Environment editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#5BB6M)
Letters sent to the forestry agency advised logging in bushfire-affected areas should apply the precautionary principle' to consider threatened species
Victoria's publicly owned forestry agency has been allowed to restart logging in bushfire-ravaged east Gippsland despite a warning from a regulator there was a risk of serious and irreversible damage" to the state's biodiversity.
A report released under freedom of information laws show the state's conservation regulator twice wrote to VicForests during and after last summer's catastrophic bushfires advising it should apply the precautionary principle" when logging in the area.
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