Australia: Illegal logging of too many rare Karri trees in Burnside Forest

Conservationists say they are shocked that rare trees are being logged
in the Burnside Forest in south-west Western Australia. Almost 400
rare karri trees, home to the threatened red-tail and white-tail black
cockatoos, have been logged in the forest.
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The Forest Products Commission is required to leave at least five primary habitat trees standing in active logging areas.  But Mark Sheehan from the Global Warming Forest Group says loggers are leaving the younger trees which are too small for the animals to live in.

“These trees only have to be potential habitat trees, so the hollows that these endangered black cockatoos need to survive for their nesting aren’t formed until about 250 to 300 years,” he said. “So the habitat trees, they’re leaving will probably take another 170 years to form these hollows.”

Chaz Newman from the Forest Products Commission said, in a statement, habitat trees in the Burnside Forest are not rare, and that the commission complies with guidelines in relation to the number of trees retained for habitat.

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