In the 2019-20 bushfire season wild fires ravaged forests across New South Wales.
The 100km deep coastal zone running the length of the state was particularly hard hit, but Nambucca State Forest was spared and is a critical refuge for unique wildlife still struggling after those fires.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 1 May 2020 that; Government logging has resumed in fire-damaged forests in NSW despite warnings that devastated bushland and endangered wildlife are too fragile to withstand further disruption.....about 92 per cent of the area set for logging was burnt in the fires.
On the morning of Friday 15 May 2020, Gumbaynggirr Traditional Owners and the Nambucca community peacefully demonstrated outside the forest and successfully stopped the NSW Forestry Corporation logging for the day.
This forest is one of the few remaining patches of unburnt koala habitat and critical refuge for wildlife after the recent bushfire season.
Community action brought a welcome reprieve but the fight is just beginning.
The people of New South Wales still need to make sure Nambucca State Forest is kept safe for good.
Support the Gumbaynggirr Traditional Owners on the frontline by calling on your MP to take urgent action to stop this logging destruction.
Join the fight and email your own state MP to save Nambucca and all native forests from the chopping block.
If you live in the Oxley state electorate make sure to email local Nationals MP Melinda Pavey at oxley@parliament.nsw.gov.au.
At 10am on Tuesday 19 May 2019 logging trucks again entered one of the few unburnt refuges in Nambucca State Forest at Jack Ridge Road, Nambucca. If you live in the region now is the time to protest legally along boundaries of this forest at logging road entrances.
The 'Protect Nambucca Heads State Forest' group have put out a call for assistance.
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