VicForests allowed to resume logging despite risk of 'irreversible damage' in fire-hit Gippsland

Letters sent to the forestry agency advised logging in bushfire-affected areas should apply the 'precautionary principle' to consider threatened species Victoria's publicly-owned forestry agency has been allowed to restart logging in bushfire-ravaged east Gippsland despite a warning from a regulator there was a risk of "serious and irreversible damage" to the state's biodiversity.Documents released under freedom of information laws show the state's conservation regulator twice wrote to VicForests during and after last summer's catastrophic bushfires advising it should apply the "precautionary principle" when logging in the area. Continue reading...