The logging at Mumbulla has already had a devastating effect on the forest, and the home of what might be the last koala colony on the south coast. Sheer lunacy!
It’s really hard from the pics to get an idea of the vastness of the logging, but it is a massive operation. The giant mechanical harvesters can pull out a tree and strip off the bark in about 7 seconds I believe. There are at least three of these monsters up there, as well as bulldozers and other equipment.
And they talk about jobs! Millions of dollars worth of equipment and very few jobs. If they tried investing in sustainable industries like wind and solar they could create vastly more jobs AND save the forests!
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How sad that we cannot even leave one patch of forest untouched to help save one of our nations icons-our koalas. the koalas roamed our forests in their millions less than 100 years ago . To find a healthy , chlamydia free, population is surely worth saving for our future generations as part of our natural heritage and for its undoubted tourism potential. 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, yet we continue to repeat the mistakes of the past, not learn from them…
By: MARK SELMES on May 2, 2010
at 12:42 am
Thanks Mark. So true!
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By: lorraineb on May 2, 2010
at 11:12 pm