I spent the last few months meandering through SE Asia's heavily logged forests and I've come back to Australia only to find darker things happening here. This is Toolangi State Forest and this is what it looks like after logging and post-logging burning. Charred wildlife carcasses scatter the earth, littered with smaller logs and ferns that hold no importance to the companies that destroy these places. Here are a few little facts about deforestation in this area: - Damage to forest ecosystems take many hundreds, if not thousands of years, to recover. - Every year, more than 5,500 hectares of forest is logged in Victoria - an area 2,750 times the size of the MCG. - These forests are the only habitat where the critically endangered Victorian faunal emblem, the Leadbeater's Possum, is found. - The production of woodchips for pulp and paper is the largest driver of forest destruction in Australia. Japanese-owned Australian Paper, manufacturer of Reflex, is the largest domestic purchaser of pulp logs from Victoria's native forests. - These forests capture and store all of Melbourne's drinking water. - These forests boast the highest carbon holding per hectare of any forest measured anywhere in the world. - Logging these areas costs Melburnians 1,000 litres of drinking water every second. To read about viable alternatives go to The Wilderness Society's website: https://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/lifting-veil-secrecy-logging-operations-toolangi #stoplogging #GFNP #deforestation #Victoria #extinctionisforever #toolangi #toolangistateforest #Melbourne #CUB #Bunnings #VicAsh #conservation #rainforest #forest #nationalpark #GFNPnow #visitvictoria #leadbeaterspossum #wildlife #logging #drinkingwater #conservationist (at Toolangi State Forest)
