{"id":1106,"date":"2018-12-20T05:59:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T05:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2018-12-20T05:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T05:59:41","slug":"old-growth-logging-must-stop-according-to-victorian-environment-department-but-daniel-andrews-is-allowing-the-continued-destruction-of-our-forests-say-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/12\/20\/old-growth-logging-must-stop-according-to-victorian-environment-department-but-daniel-andrews-is-allowing-the-continued-destruction-of-our-forests-say-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Old-growth logging must stop according to Victorian environment department, but Daniel Andrews is allowing the continued destruction of our forests, say Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In staggering testimony yesterday, the Victorian environment department\u2019s deputy secretary for forest, fire and regions admitted the department\u2019s position on old-growth logging is that it should end.<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cThe Andrews government is defying its own environment department to allow Victoria\u2019s old-growth forests to continue to be logged. This is a government that applauds its own action on renewable energy with one hand, while continuing to log forests and burn polluting brown coal with the other,\u201d said Ellen Sandell, Victorian Greens environment spokesperson.
\n\u201cWhy isn\u2019t the Premier listening to his own environment department?\u201d
\n\u201cOld-growth logging pushes rare and endangered animals\u00a0to the brink of extinction,\u201d said Senator Janet Rice, Australian Greens forests spokesperson and Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Australia\u2019s animal extinction crisis.
\n\u201cOld-growth logging should stop immediately, and the logging laws which allow it, the Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) should be scrapped. They are a death warrant for threatened species like Leadbeater\u2019s Possums and Greater Gliders.\u201d
\n\u201cDaniel Andrews has the chance to turn over a new leaf. He needs to stop the games, protect our native forests and shift to 100% sustainable plantations. We\u2019re already at 88% – it\u2019s entirely feasible.\u201d\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In staggering testimony yesterday, the Victorian environment department\u2019s deputy secretary for forest, fire and regions admitted the department\u2019s position on old-growth logging is that it should end. \u201cThe Andrews government is defying its own environment department to allow Victoria\u2019s old-growth forests to continue to be logged. This is a government that applauds its own action … Continue reading “Old-growth logging must stop according to Victorian environment department, but Daniel Andrews is allowing the continued destruction of our forests, say Greens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}