Give wildlife a chance. After bushfires & 50 yrs of woodchipping, it's time for change!

Give wildlife a chance. After bushfires & 50 yrs of woodchipping, it's time for change!

Started
31 October 2019
Petition to
ANWE Directors (Owners of the Eden woodchip mill) and 5 others
Signatures: 4,763Next goal: 5,000
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Why this petition matters

Started by South East Region Conservation Alliance

The catastrophic bushfires of 2019-20 summer, in which 80% of south coast forest available for logging were burnt, make it more urgent than ever to end native forest logging and give our wildlife a chance. Native forest woodchipping has lost whatever social licence it may once have had and it's time for a full transition to plantations. The Eden woodchipper has destroyed forests of the region for over 50 years*. At this time of climate emergency, these forests have a higher purpose than woodchips and other low value products. After 50 years, our precious wildlife and forests have suffered enough. We need native forests as homes for wild creatures, as carbon stores and protectors of climate, soil and water. Almost 70% of people in all Australian States oppose native forest logging.  

* The chipper at the Eden woodchip mill was commissioned on 28th November 1969.

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Decision makers

  • ANWE DirectorsOwners of the Eden woodchip mill
  • Senator Murray WattMinister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
  • Dugald Saunders MPNSW Minister for Agriculture
  • Malcolm McCombDirector, Allied Natural Wood Enterprises
  • Ian SedgerDirector, Allied Natural Wood Enterprises