Grievance

The Petition of certain citizens of the State of Victoria draws to the attention of the Legislative Council that logging of Victoria's old-growth native forests by VicForests is doing irreversible damage to the biodiversity of vulnerable species in the state.



In particular, we call attention to the recent report by ABC news that VicForests is conducting an 'experiment' in the East Gippsland forest to conduct logging to determine the impact of logging on the Greater Glider (Petauroides volans), despite there being scientific consensus that logging has a detrimental effect on wildlife, and despite acknowledgement from VicForests that the experiment will kill Greater Gliders.