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Bunnings axe ties with VicForests over illegal logging
July 02, 2020
A leaked Bunnings staff newsletter has revealed Bunnings will phase out VicForests products from their supply chain following a federal court judgement which found they had illegally logged over 25 areas of native forest,...
Read More ShareDroughts, floods and fires: where does water fit in the climate crisis?
July 01, 2020
Charlotte Borthwick – The severity of the recent bushfire crisis makes it clear that things are no longer 'business as usual'. Bushfires are being exacerbated by our rapidly warming climate and lack of water...
Read More ShareThousands of Trees in Reserve Threatened by Herbicide Spray Drift
June 25, 2020
Friends of the Earth has uncovered a disturbing incident in the Holey Plains State Reserve, in Central Gippsland, Victoria. FoE has found an area of several hundred hectares, in the Reserve which appears to...
Read More ShareHelp FoE Hit 300 Strzelecki Koala Surveys for 2020
June 07, 2020
Covid 19 has made life extremely complicated. Despite, the obvious problems FoE has managed to conduct 140 koala surveys in the Strzelecki/South Gippsland Region during 2020. These surveys were largely made possible through a...
Read More ShareSolidarity with the Pueblo Shuar Arutam Facing COVID-19 emergency
May 19, 2020
Friends of the Earth Australia express our solidarity and support to the authorities of the Shuar Arutam People (PSHA), to the Shuar People in general, and to all peoples and nations of the Ecuadorian...
Read More ShareVictorian government to log thousands of hectares of fire damaged forests
May 01, 2020
The Andrews government logging agency VicForests have written to Friends of the Earth member group, Goongerah Environment Centre, outlining plans to log thousands of hectares of forests affected by the 2019/2020 bushfires in East...
Read More ShareLeadbeater's Possum found in active logging coupe
April 22, 2020
WOTCH have detected a critically endangered Leadbeater’s Possum in an active logging coupe (480-509-0013 ‘Desilijic') recently. The habitat just 100m away had already been clearfelled – well within the buffer zone triggered by this...
Read More ShareDeadline Now Reached for Professional Fishing Licence "Buy Out" in Gippsland Lakes
April 06, 2020
April 1 2020 marked the deadline for the buy-out of the ten remaining Professional Fishermen who had operated without catch limits in the Gippsland Lakes, Australia's largest inland waterway. Black Bream annual harvest catches...
Read More Share10-year legal exemptions rolled over, VIC and Federal govs fail to protect threatened species
April 02, 2020
Legal exemption for the logging industry from federal environment law was signed off on Monday for another ten years in spite of the horrific impacts of the bushfires on forests and wildlife.
Read More ShareChina and India Dominate Pesticide Import Breaches on Food
March 20, 2020
Friends of the Earth has produced a new report investigating breaches to Australian food import regulations between the years 2017-2019. The data was compiled by analysing data published in Monthly Failing Food Reports produced...
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