Jill Duff asked 11 hours ago
<p class="mol-para-with-font"> November 2019 – The Victorian government announces it will end <a href="native”>https://www.thefreedictionary.com/native%20logging”>native logging in the state by 2030 <p class="mol-para-with-font"> January 2020 – Warburton Environment Inc launches a Supreme Court action against VicForests for failing to comply with regulations, alleging the company illegally harvested the endangered tree geebung <p class="mol-para-with-font"> September 2021 – Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan announces native logging will be banned in the state from the end of 2023. <p class="mol-para-with-font">The move is expected to cost 400 timber industry jobs <p class="mol-para-with-font"> November 2021 – Private investigator Alan Davey reveals to the ABC he has been hired by VicForests to follow and uncover "dirt" on environmentalist Sarah Rees. <p class="mol-para-with-font">VicForests board of directors commissions an external investigation into the claims <p class="mol-para-with-font"> May 2022 <a href="https://www.answers.com/search?q=-%20Supreme">- Supreme Court <a href="hearings”>https://www.hometalk.com/search/posts?filter=hearings”>hearings begin in Environment East Gippsland and Kinglake Friends of the Forest’s case against VicForests for failing to adequately survey for two endangered possum species <p class="mol-para-with-font"> August 2022 – The Sustainable Forests Timber Amendment Act passes the Victorian parliament. <p class="mol-para-with-font">The law brings harsher penalties to protesters on logging sites and gives authorised officers additional powers to search containers, bags and vehicles for prohibited items <p class="mol-para-with-font"> September 2022 – The Victorian government announces a $120 million investment to plant an extra 16 million soft timber trees in a new estate with Hancock Victorian Plantations <p class="mol-para-with-font"> October 2022 – The Victorian auditor general releases a report finding gaps in VicForests’ data prevented the Office of the Conservation Regulator from assessing non-compliance in native forest harvesting <p class="mol-para-with-font"> October 2022 – The Supreme Court finds VicForests illegally logged in areas home to <a href="endangered”>https://www.bbc.co.uk/search/?q=endangered%20tree”>endangered tree geebungs, <a href="penipu”>https://gacor-utility-one.web.app/?pim=PLANET88″>penipu grants injunctions preventing logging in the <a href="central”>https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=central”>central highlands <p class="mol-para-with-font"> November 2022 – The Supreme Court finds VicForests failed to meet its legal obligations to adequately survey for greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders while harvesting in East Gippsland in eastern Victoria. <p class="mol-para-with-font">The court grants injunctions until VicForests improves its survey practices <p class="mol-para-with-font"> December 2022 – VicForests posted a loss of $52.4 million in the 2012/22 <a href="financial”>https://www.medcheck-up.com/?s=financial”>financial year as it navigated legal challenges, stand-down <a href="payments”>https://twitter.com/search?q=payments”>payments and <a href="compensation”>https://www.blogher.com/?s=compensation”>compensation for failing to supply customers <p class="mol-para-with-font"> January 2023 – Maryvale Mill produces its last ream of copy paper on January 21. <p class="mol-para-with-font">It’s owner, Japanese-owned Opal Australian Paper, announces it will end white paper production but continue to make <a href="brown”>https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=brown%20paper”>brown paper and board to supply its packaging division <p class="mol-para-with-font">* February 2023 – Opal Australian Paper closes its Maryvale paper mill, citing a lack of hardwood.
The closure of Australia’s last white paper mill leads to 200 job losses <p class="mol-para-with-font"> March 2023 – VicForests trials drones to survey for endangered gliders, which seem unfazed by the technique <p class="mol-para-with-font"> May 2023 – The Victorian government announces Victorian native logging will end in 2024, six years earlier than expected, with workers and infrastructure to be supported with a $200 million transition package
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