AUSTRALIA — The Andrews government has spent years investigating claims of unlawful logging against its state-owned timber company without enforcing any penalties. Documents reveal Victoria’s environment department is currently probing 27 alleged forest breaches against VicForests, …including multiple claims involving rainforests, where timber harvesting is prohibited. At least four of those cases relate to coupes in East Gippsland, where logging activities allegedly took place in or around rainforest areas without establishing protective buffers that are required under the Code of Practice for Timber Production.