AUSTRALIA – On November 7, 2019 … Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews made an announcement his government described as “the largest environmental protection policy in the state’s history”. In a little over 10 years, the logging of native forests in the state would end. And in the meantime, he instituted an “immediate protection” for important forests, a policy plank which his government would come to refer to often when defending its record on forest protection. …And with that announcement, the Andrews government produced a map, marking all the areas in the state’s forests that were thought to be old growth, labelling those zones “modelled old growth” and “not available” for logging. But at the very moment, a crew hired by the Victorian government-owned logging agency VicForests was clearing an area on Mount Delusion in East Gippsland. …Environmentalists who had supported and applauded the government’s move were blindsided — and now say they were tricked by the government.