A logging company owned by the New South Wales government has been found guilty of seven criminal offences in the past four years for illegally logging endangered animal habitat. The Forestry Corporation is also being investigated by the EPA over further potential breaches.
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00:00There is 18 ongoing investigations, there's been 7 criminal convictions and 3 prosecutions
00:08ongoing.
00:09So this is by far, far and away not the first time this has happened at all.
00:15Because of all of that put together, what a lot of community groups are now saying is
00:19that look this is a rogue agency, they're not following the rules, they don't seem to
00:23care.
00:24Forestry Corporation says that it complies with the law and in fact says that it goes
00:27above and beyond the law to protect the forests.
00:30It's saying that it will assist the EPA with its investigation here.
00:35They're kind of limited in what they're saying because there is an ongoing investigation
00:38but a group that represents the timber industry, the Forest and Wood Products Association of
00:43New South Wales, has said that these complaints by community groups represent a kind of targeted
00:48campaign to make it look like Forestry Corporation is a rogue organisation.
00:53So those are the two sides there.
00:55Of course, there's also been a call now with Forestry just to end in New South Wales and
01:01I guess we've seen that already happen in Victoria and Western Australia in the past
01:05year.
01:06Native logging was stopped.
01:08So there is a push for that to happen.