After the Logging: Failing to regrow Victoria’s native forests

REPORT 2021 |

Victorian government agency VicForests is failing to regrow the state’s native forests, with a third of coupes failing to regrow after logging, a new report co-published by 19 Victorian environment groups* reveals.

The damning new report, based on data obtained under Freedom of Information laws, has exposed for the first time how Victoria’s state logging agency is failing to regrow forests despite its claims to be doing so.

The new report After the Logging finds:

• A third of logging coupes are failing to regenerate within three years, double the amount VicForests publicly claims.
• In Mountain Ash forests, half of logging coupes are failing to regenerate within three years.
• Even logging coupes that have passed the test for successful regeneration are failing to grow into forests.
• Ground checks and drone footage reveal some forests have been turned into weed-infested wastelands of blackberry and bracken, and others into thickets of wattle not eucalypts.

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