Campaigners badge the otherwise blank offices that house VicForests

On 26 August, Wilderness Society staff and volunteers paid a visit to the state’s #1 Wally with Water.

Handing out pamphlets to passes-by during the busy lunch-hour in the heart of the CBD, campaigners badged the otherwise blank offices that house VicForests.

Volunteer Clara hands out pamphlets to passes-by during the busy lunch-hour in the heart of the CBD. The Wilderness Society campaign staff and volunteers will continue to call on VicForests to change the way they do business, and to manage our forests for carbon and biodiversity values, not at a loss for woodchips. Photo: The Wilderness Society collection

Passers-by were surprised to learn that not only is the Brumby Government wasting taxpayers’ dollars propping up the government’s logging agency, VicForests - but that the government is squandering opportunities to save water, help solve climate change, and create clean green jobs by protecting Victoria’s native forests.

Since last Friday’s decision by government to allow the iconic Brown Mountain in East Gippsland to be logged for woodchip, it is now up to VicForests to decide when they will send logging contractors back into this carbon-rich forest, and only a few months until loggers will once again be sent into Melbourne’ pristine forested water catchments.

The Wilderness Society campaign staff and volunteers will continue to call on VicForests to change the way they do business, and to manage our forests for carbon and biodiversity values, not at a loss for woodchips.

Join us in calling on Premier Brumby and Treasurer Lenders to secure a safe climate future and enough water for us all by ensuring VicForests stop logging our publicly-owned forests. Sign the online petition here >>