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Proposed NSW logging laws value timber over environmental protection

  • Written by Oisín Sweeney, Senior Ecologist at the National Parks Association of NSW, Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Increased logging in NSW could affect threatened species.Nativesrule, Author provided

New South Wales is revamping its logging laws for the first time in two decades, drafting regulations that will govern more than two million hectares of public native forest.

Among the changes are proposals to permit logging in exclusion zones – part of the...

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