âLike the fires never happenedâ: Residents alarmed at Gippsland burns
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Threatened species in Gippsland under pressure after vast swaths of their habitat were destroyed in last yearâs catastrophic bushfires are facing a series of planned burns that conservation groups say will deepen the crisis.
With the onset of cooler autumn weather, Victoriaâs planned burn season has begun.
Derek Hayes at the site of a recent planned burn at the Mitchell River National Park, in Gippsland.
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Over the next three years Forest Fire Management Victoria (FFMV) â an agency within the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning â is planning 133 burns in greater Gippsland, covering 62,808 hectares.
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Dismay as VicForests allows logging of unburnt forest in East Gippsland for TAFE training
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A timber training unit logging in the Colquhoun Forest in December, 2020.
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Environmentalists say a logging school is operating in bushfire-damaged forests in East Gippsland that should be protected.
Key points:
Minister Jaclyn Symes says only salvage logging is taking place in the fire footprint
Conservationists say they have documented logging in the Colquhoun State Forest
Publicly-owned forest agency VicForests has allowed an unburnt coupe at Nowa Nowa, four hours east of Melbourne, to be logged by Gippsland TAFE students for training.