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Conservationists fear Victoria's cuts to logging green tape

2013-06-27 09:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The Victorian government has amended the state's logging laws in a move conservationists fear will transfer control to the timber industry and could doom endangered species such as the Leadbeater's Possum. The Sustainable Forests (Timber) Amendment Bill, which passed the lower house on Thursday, reduces the regulations binding VicForests, the state-backed forestry business. The bill removes the second part of the two-stage process that VicForests has to go through in order to secure and log...

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