Thanks to your support, it’s a win! At the 11th hour, less than a day before the Supreme Court hearing, the Tasmanian government-owned logging agency conceded, and the Court ordered it to provide the requested logging plan.
The next step is to evaluate the logging plan. But meanwhile the critically endangered swift waylitja / parrot is still losing its habitat to logging. Logging that may be unlawful.
On Thursday 10 November, the Wilderness Society took urgent legal action to protect lutruwita / Tasmania’s forests and swift parrots.
State government loggers, Sustainable Timber Tasmania (STT), have logging plans called ‘forest practices plans’, known as FPPs, for every logging coupe across the state.
It’s not clear that these plans have been properly authorised. In fact, it might be that STT has been self-certifying its own logging plans on palawa Country!
The Wilderness Society has been asking for these plans, but STT refused to provide them—to us, or other conservationists.
So we went to court. On Wednesday, the matter will be heard. Your help is urgently needed to raise $25,000 to cover the legal fees to help protect lutruwita.
Will you donate today to fund the Wilderness Society’s legal action to find out if Sustainable Timber Tasmania’s plans are properly authorised, or not?
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