{"id":6739,"date":"2020-05-27T13:09:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6739"},"modified":"2020-05-27T13:09:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:09:29","slug":"federal-court-judgement-puts-all-native-forest-logging-on-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/27\/federal-court-judgement-puts-all-native-forest-logging-on-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court judgement puts all native forest logging on notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens say that all native forest logging operations across Australia now face a cascade of legal challenges, after today\u2019s Federal Court judgement showed that existing logging laws and operations are sending threatened species to the brink of extinction.<br \/>\nAustralian Greens forests spokesperson Senator Janet Rice welcomed to this morning\u2019s landmark Federal Court judgement on Friends of Leadbeater\u2019s Possum Inc v VicForests saying:<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a hugely significant decision. It shows the provisions of our logging laws under the Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) are not working to protect threatened species.<br \/>\n\u201cThe federal government and state governments have long argued that logging operations were fine and legal, but this case says that VicForests\u2019 logging operations under the Victorian Central Highlands RFA are not working to protect threatened species including Victoria\u2019s animal emblem, the Leadbeater\u2019s possum, and the Greater Glider.<br \/>\n\u201cThe judgement says that logging\u2019s exemption from our national environmental laws (the EPBC Act) will end in a swathe of coupes in Victoria, setting a precedent which puts all other native forest logging operations on notice.<br \/>\n\u201cNative forest logging cannot continue if Australia\u2019s threatened species are going to survive.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a major warning to Commonwealth and state governments who are continuing to allow destructive native forest\u00a0 logging, showing that they face significant legal hurdles to continuing their work.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s time to get out of native forest logging now.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Greens have a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Parliamentary_Business\/Bills_Legislation\/Bills_Search_Results\/Result?bId=s1083\">bill in the federal parliament<\/a>\u00a0to scrap the Regional Forest Agreements.<br \/>\nThe full judgement of the Federal Court can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au\/judgments\/Judgments\/fca\/single\/2020\/2020fca0704\/summary\/2020fca0704-summary\">here online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens say that all native forest logging operations across Australia now face a cascade of legal challenges, after today\u2019s Federal Court judgement showed that existing logging laws and operations are sending threatened species to the brink of extinction. Australian Greens forests spokesperson Senator Janet Rice welcomed to this morning\u2019s landmark Federal Court judgement on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/27\/federal-court-judgement-puts-all-native-forest-logging-on-notice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Federal Court judgement puts all native forest logging on notice&#8221;<\/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-6739","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\/6739","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=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}