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South East Region Conservation Alliance Inc. (serca) is an umbrella organisation for conservation, environment and for citizens' groups who want to conserve and protect the natural environment of South East NSW, Australia. Our members include:
Bega Environment Network | Chipstop | The Coastwatchers Association Inc | Colong Foundation for Wilderness | Friends of Durras | National Parks Association – Far South Coast | Natural Native Forests | SE Forest Rescue | Yurangalo Inc.

serca is a member of the Australian Forest & Climate Alliance established in January 2009.

Issue 6, November 09

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Day one at Bermagui, Black Lagoon Marine Park logging coupe. These trees were up to 100 years old. 09.09

Link to map of Forests NSW harvesting plan for Bermagui 09.09 | More info. about Bermagui logging

1. Latest News: Buyers force Tasmanian woodchip mills to use only plantation timber, Andrew Darby, Hobart, SMH, 02.10 Link to SMH
2. Latest News: No wonder Australia is lagging behind Spain and China with renewable energy, Matthew Wright, SMH, 02.10 Link to SMH
3. Latest News: Koalas face big logging threat, R. Beeby, Canberra Times, 01.10 Link to website
4. Media Release: Greens call for Kenneally to save koalas from logging in Mumbulla State Forest Link to website
5. Event: Drawing competition for young people for a Kookaburra cartoon.
6. Latest news: Logging plan poses threat to precious koala colony, Ben Cubby, SMH, 01.10 Link to website
7. Letter: To the Premier for public use for lobbying against logging in Mumbulla State Forest. "Don’t kiss the last koalas goodbye"
8. Submission: on the Draft Towamba Catchments Water Sharing Plan. Mick Harewood, 11.09.
9. Letter: Tuckey's fat-headed forest fiction, Harriett Swift SMH 10.09
10. Media Release: Two Conservationists Arrested in Tasmania’s Threatened Weld Valley. Jenny Weber 10.09
11. MR: Cable Logging Destruction Halted in Weld Valley, Tasmania Jenny Weber 10.09
12. Letter: Response from Peter Garrett to Dane Winbushre forestry activities between Gulaga and Biamanga National Parks. 10.09
13. Submission: Draft Report on Progress with Implementation of the NSW RFAs Canopy Native Forest Committee, Total Environment Centre, Graham Daly. 09.09
14. Letters: To electricity retailers. ACTEW, AGL and Australian Power and Gas who said 'no' to woodchip power. 10.09
15. SERCA in media: Proposed chipmill woodfired power station in the Colong Foundation bulletin. Harriett Swift. 21.10.09
16. Video clip: Alternative Tour 16.10.09 to Gnupa, Nullica and Yurammie State Forests
17. Letter: 'More than trees' Prue Acton 10.09
18. Letter: Response to Bermagui's 'cathedral of trees'. Harriett Swift 09.09
19. Latest news: Kevin Petty's move to 'allay fears' over logging at Bermagui. BDN 10.09

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The Wilderness Society, Australia

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"Australia's forests may be equally important, if not more important, to protect  than protecting tropical forests in developing countries through REDD."
On subsidizing native forests woodchipping, the main driver of logging in the southeast of Australia: "It is the most bizarre thing I have heard ... this logging is not even in Australia's economic interest. This is such a ridiculous situation; it is not economic; plantations are economic."

Dr. Rachel Warren, UK at the Biodiversity and Climate conference, ACT 08.09.

"Our first priority must be to secure a safe climate: to reverse the aridification of southern Australia and the massive clearing and degradation of our forests and soils that have contributed to it. We must and can do it by valuing and restoring our forests for the key rain making, water retention and carbon bio-sequestration ecosystems that they are, along with reforesting farming landscapes and improving soil carbon."

Dr Walter Jehne, Scientist, at the SERCA Forum: Forests, Climate and Woodchips: the burning issue.