#ForestConversion

2024-04-28

Still logging Tuckers Nob, also known as the proposed Great Koala National Park

Dr. Tim Cadman is documenting how rainforest trees are cleared and original forest remnant are damaged by the state-owned Forestry Corporation of NSW. Week 11 of industrial logging within Tuckers Nob compartments 26-27 turning remnant vegetation into timber and electricity.
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youtube.com/watch?v=X2djTDFsYj

Surviving arboreal animals flee across busy roads and birds have gone silent. Industrial machinery leave huge puddles behind that supply the whole of Bellingen with Japanese encephalitis virus, Murray Valley encephalitis and Ross River virus. Gain for some, harm for others.

Mosquito borne diseases move in behind the loggers
theguardian.com/world/2007/oct
Deforestation and vector-borne disease: Forest conversion favors important mosquito vectors of human pathogens
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/

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