Last week, Canberra Forest Alliance joined with Friends of the Forest Mogo, Knitting Nannas for Native Forests (South Coast loop) and the Bob Brown Foundation to call for an end to native forest logging outside of the venue of the Australian Forestry Symposium in Braddon.
The 2026 Symposium theme is to tell ‘the forestry story, strategies for improved awareness, social licence and effective engagement.’
Community members protested to demonstrate support to protect our forests for wildlife and to show that logging our public native forests has no social license.
“The native forest logging industry needs to be shut down nationwide. At multiple protests today, Bob Brown Foundation, Wilderness Australia, forest groups and community members are calling for immediate protection of native forests as the logging industry gathers in Canberra for a symposium on how to greenwash ongoing environmental destruction of native forests,” said Jenny Weber, Bob Brown Foundation’s Campaigns Director.
“Australia’s native forest logging industry has no social license, 70% of Australians want the destruction to end. In a climate and biodiversity crisis, logging is not a PR problem; it’s a question of human survival on Earth. Our nation’s forests store vast amounts of carbon; they are the lungs of our Earth; they clean and generate water. They support life on Earth, yet they are plundered to the point of collapse. This must end now,” said Doro Babeck, Bob Brown Foundation NSW campaigner.
Judith Bourne, from Canberra Forest Alliance said: “Strange how for years the Forestry industry has tried to manufacture credibility for their deeply unpopular forestry management with misinformation and outright lies. The real solution is to end logging now instead of continuing with the illegal, unsustainable, climate and wildlife wrecking of our public forests.”
End native forest logging protests happened across the country in Hobart, Tasmania’s Styx forests, and across NSW in Batemans Bay, Sydney and Coffs Harbour.
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