Native forest protections are deeply flawed, yet may be in place for another 20 years
- Written by David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Current protections for native forests are hopelessly out of date.Graeme/Flickr, CC BY-NC
State governments are poised to renew some of the 20-year-old Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) without reviewing any evidence gathered in the last two decades.
The agreements were first signed between the federal government and the states in the late 1990s in...
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