<p class="mol-para-with-font"> November 2019 – The Victorian government announces it will end native logging in the state by 2030 <p class="mol-para-with-font"> January 2020 – <a href="Warburton”>https://www.biggerpockets.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=Warburton%20Environment”>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 – Supreme Court hearings begin in Environment East Gippsland and Kinglake Friends of the Forest’s case against VicForests for failing to adequately survey for two <a href="endangered”>https://www.reddit.com/r/howto/search?q=endangered%20possum”>endangered possum species <p class="mol-para-with-font"> August 2022 – The <a href="Sustainable”>https://www.blogher.com/?s=Sustainable%20Forests”>Sustainable Forests Timber Amendment Act passes the Victorian parliament. <p class="mol-para-with-font">The law <a href="brings”>https://wideinfo.org/?s=brings%20harsher”>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 <a href="Victorian”>https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=Victorian%20auditor&gs_l=news”>Victorian auditor general releases a report finding gaps in VicForests’ data <a href="prevented”>https://www.change.org/search?q=prevented”>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 endangered tree geebungs, grants injunctions preventing logging in the central highlands <p class="mol-para-with-font"> November 2022 – The Supreme Court finds VicForests failed to meet its legal obligations to <a href="adequately”>https://edition.cnn.com/search?q=adequately”>adequately survey for greater <a href="gliders”>https://sportsrants.com/?s=gliders”>gliders and yellow-bellied gliders while harvesting in East Gippsland <a href="penipu”>https://kozmikweb.com/hotwin88-13/”>penipu 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 financial year as it navigated legal challenges, stand-down payments and 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 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<img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v-Ha9kHIuc0/hq720.jpg" alt="FOUR UNITED PENIPU || LIRIK" style="max-width:410px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;"> <p class="mol-para-with-font"> May 2023 – The <a href="Victorian”>https://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/search/?q=Victorian%20government”>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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