News that the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is backing the Western Australia forest management plan has upset conservationists.
The EPA has agreed that a proposal to log 131,000m3 of jarrah and 54,000m3 of karri is ecologically sustainable, although it raised some concerns, including a lack of reserach on forest fauna and that adequate funding must be available for the plan to be sustainable.
However, the Conservation Council of Western Australia said the recommendations were not good enough. And it is worried that 665,000m3 of timber will be logged which, it claims, is too much.
