Prepare for life after native logging, VicForests inquiry recommends

By Kath Sullivan
The Weekly Times, Australia
October 31, 2017
Category: Forestry
Region: International

VICTORIA must develop a transition plan to help its timber industry move from native logging to plantation timber, a group of state MPs has recommended. The Inquiry into VicForests by a group of cross party MPs made seven recommendations to the State Government, including the call for it to establish an industry transition plan and work with VicForests, and the Forest Industry Taskforce to consider “supporting innovative industry players (and) …. how current forestry-dependent communities can be actively supported through any transition plans”. Nationals MP Luke O’Sullivan was the only MP on the committee to vote against the recommendation for a transition plan. The report also recommended calling on the Government to explain the Forest Industry Taskforce and deliver tighter oversight of VicForests, and the way it manages the resource.

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