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Logging Within RSOS Spotlight on the Acheron Valey LOGGING WITHIN RAINFOREST SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE SPOTLIGHT ON THE ACHERON VALLEY [NATIONAL RSOS CH6: ACHERON] Dear Premier, Ministers and Treasurer; Daniel Andrews Jaala Pulford Lisa Neville Tim Pallas Premier Agriculture Minister Environment Minister Treasurer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] VicForests’ Logging within Rainforest Sites of Significance: Spotlight on the Acheron Valley In Victoria in 2015 the logging of our State Forests, which is diminishing biodiversity through its impacts on threatened species' habitat as well as degrading remnant natural landscapes through fragmentation and depletion of critical ecological elements, is not supported by the majority of the broader Victorian community as responsible management of a precious and revered public asset. In this context, it is clear that the logging of Rainforest Sites of Significance does not meet community standards and Victorians would certainly expect this practice to be a relic of the past. THE ACHERON VALLEY URGENT: FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION Logging is currently recommencing within VicForests’ coupes 309-508-0018, 309-509-0002 and 309- 509-0003 in one of Victoria’s National Rainforest Sites of Significance (RSOS). This site is in the Acheron Valley to the north of Warburton and the east of Healesville in the Central Highlands of Victoria near Melbourne. This site supports and is intended to protect rainforest stands that have been recognised as having the highest significance in Victoria and indeed nationally. This assessment was made commencing in 1990 by the then Victorian Environment and Natural Resources departments. The table below details the amount of logging that has been undertaken since 1990 and the amount of logging that is planned on VicForests’ current 2015 Timber Release Plan. There are currently 23 coupes scheduled to be logged or already logged within (or substantially overlapping) RSOS CH6: Acheron. These coupes are: 309-009-0006, 309-011-0006, 309-012-0007, 309-012-0008, 309-509-0001, 309-509-0002, 309-509-0003, 309-509-0004, 309-510-0003, 309-511-0005, 309-511-0008, 309-511-0010, 309-512-0001, 309-512-0002, 309-512-0004, 309-512-0005, 309-512-0006, 309-512-0007, 309-512-0008, 309-513-0002, 309-513-0003, 309-513-0005, and 309-511-0007. Rainforest Site Total Area Prior Logging History Scheduled Logging Cumulative Scheduled & Prior of Significance of RSOS since 1990 in RSOS (VicForests 2015-TRP) in RSOS Logging History since 1990 in RSOS ID Nam e ha % ha % ha % ha % CH6 Acheron 3608 100% 402 11% 730 20% 940 26% Table 1. Summary of planned and prior logging in the Rainforest Site of Significance RSOS CH6: Acheron 12 of these coupes have been logged or logged in part from 2004, since VicForests’ inception. Almost all of these coupes were logged within the last 5 years, including some in 2014-15. Most of this logging has occurred following the catastrophic bush fires of 2009 that also burnt some areas of RSOS CH6: Acheron at varied intensities and very large forest areas adjacent to this site at very high intensities. (For further context see the map of the Acheron Valley on the following page) Each of the Premier, Environment and Agriculture Ministers and the Treasurer, with their respective responsibilities for managing Victoria’s biodiversity and State Forests must immediately bring an end to the logging of the Acheron Valley’s National Rainforest Site of Significance that is currently re-commencing within VicForests’ logging coupes 309-508-0018, 309-509-0002 and 309- 509-0003 and ensure that VicForests conduct no further logging within this Rainforest Site of Significance including immediately removing coupe 309-512-0001 from imminent logging plans. 1/5 2/5 VICTORIA'S RAINFOREST SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE What is Happening Across Victoria there are 190 Rainforest Sites of Significance (RSOS). At least 100 of these RSOS's have had logging within them to varying degrees since their initial conception by the Department in 1990. On VicForests' current Timber Release Plan there are 350 coupes whose spatial distribution “overlap” RSOS, representing 7,356 hectares scheduled to be logged in areas of Rainforest Sites of Significance. This current scheduled logging will add to the prior history of logging within Rainforest Sites of Significance. Since 1990 this logging has occurred over 8,928 hectares bringing the cumulative total area (adding the prior logging history to the current scheduled logging coupes) to 15,398 ha logged. (A summary of this information is provided in the table of Appendix A to this report) The Value of Rainforest Sites of Significance All rainforest in Victoria is rare, occupying only the most protected niches still able to support these ecological communities the very constitution of which is a unique preservation of biological diversity. Rainforest Sites of Significance have been designed to protect Victoria's most significant areas of rainforest through their intention to provide protection to the watershed encompassing the rainforest stands in order that they have the best chance of survival, continued development and replenishment. Logging in any areas of Rainforest Site of Significance catchment areas, on top of its direct impact on a rainforest stand, diminishes a RSOS's ability to safeguard rainforest stands from edge effects and fire, and ultimately the multiplying implications of increased stresses under altered climate scenarios. The Law Despite woefully inadequate legislation to protect all Rainforest Sites of Significance, the Rainforest Action Statement No 238 prepared under Section 19 of the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 (Vic) does state that “all sites of national significance for rainforest in Victoria will be protected within the comprehensive, adequate and representative reserve system”, at page 13. Despite this clear statement within the Action Statement, successive Victorian Governments have failed to place all National Rainforest Sites of Significance within the reserve system. VicForests have contin- ued to plan and conduct logging within these highly controversial environments, such as that previously and imminently occurring within the Acheron National Rainforest Site of Significance CH6. In 2012, logging within a National Rainforest Site of Significance in East Gippsland resulted in Supreme Court litigation between Environment East Gippsland Inc, VicForests and the Secretary to the then De- partment of Sustainability and Environment. That case settled, with VicForests agreeing not to log within the coupe that triggered the Court case, as well as numerous other logging coupes scheduled in East Gippsland within National Sites of Significance for Rainforest. The Victorian Government should urgently act to comply with the Rainforest Action Statement No 238 and immediately place all National Sites of Significance for Rainforest, including the Acheron Site CH6, within the reserve system. Complete protection for all Rainforest Sites of Significance should be clearly and unequivocally man- dated via legislative reform. 3/5 What Must Be Done Our organisations call on each of the Premier, Environment and Agriculture Ministers and the Treasurer, using their respective responsibilities for managing Victoria’s biodiversity and State Forests to: • Immediately halt all logging planned within National Rainforest Sites of Significance and place these areas within the reserve system to comply with the Rainforest Action Statements No 238. • Commence, in genuine consultation with relevant experts and environment groups, the drafting of appropriate legislation to fully protect all of Victoria's Rainforest Sites of Significance from current and future avoidable disturbances such as logging. • Convene with relevant experts and environment groups to design and implement ways to restore areas of Victoria's Rainforest Sites of Significance that have already been degraded by logging to restore them to their full ecological potential. Signed: Fauna and Flora Research Collective Inc. Goongerah Environment Centre Warburton Environment My Environment Inc. Healesville Environment Watch Inc. Environment East Gippsland Inc. 05 November 2015 4/5 APPENDIX A - Rainforest Sites of Significance [RSOS]; Scheduled Logging (VicForests' Timber Release Plan [TRP]); Logging History since 1990 [LASTLOG25] Prior Logging Scheduled Logging Cumulative Scheduled and Total Area Rainforest Site of Significance History since (VicForests 2015- Prior Logging History Of RSOS 1990 in RSOS TRP) in RSOS since 1990 in RSOS* # ID Nam e ha % ha % ha % ha % 1 CH1 Kalatha Creek 898 100% 260 29% 172 19% 382 43% 2 CH2 Yea River 1594 100% 195 12% 295 19% 435 27% 3 CH4 Taggerty River 3401 100% 131 4% 9 0% 140 4% 4 CH5 Hermitage Creek 276 100% 0 0% 49 18% 49 18% 5 CH6 Acheron 3608 100% 402 11% 730 20% 940 26% 6 CH8 Federation Range (Mount Bullfight) 422 100% 29 7% 91 22% 119 28% 7 CH9 Federation Range, Torbreck River South 1265 100% 113 9% 97 8% 191 15% 8 CH11 Mount St Leonard 911 100% 4 0% 1 0% 5 1% 9 CH13 Watts River 4207 100% 1 0% 15 0% 15 0% 10 CH16 Britannia Creek 1701 100% 11 1% 785 46% 792 47% 11 CH17 Cement Creek 2444 100% 0 0% 190 8% 190 8% 12 CH18 O'Shannassy 13171 100% 23 0% 3 0% 26 0% 13 CH19 Starvation Creek 1367 100% 561 41% 151 11% 679 50% 14 CH20 McMahons Creek 931 100% 200 21% 124 13% 291 31% 15 CH21 Cum berland 3996 100% 187 5% 58 1% 214 5% 16 CH23 Upper Bunyip River 3405 100% 335 10% 141 4% 462 14% 17 CH24 Tarago 1672 100% 599 36% 173 10% 718
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