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Logging debate: Who is right?

Posted by: Paul Entwistle | 17 February, 2012 - 1:35 PM

The logging debate has raged in 6PR's studios: Listen here to decide who won.

Is logging destroying or sustaining our environmental future? Tony McManus moderated a passion filled debate between Jess Beckerling from the WA Forest Alliance and Bob Pearce from the Forest Industries Federation of WA on the issue.

Part one of the debate.

Part two of the debate

Blog comments

I have spent the last four days driving around near Bridgetown and Nannup, taking photographs of current forestry practices. I have dozens of photographs of black cockatoo habitat trees that have been felled; obsene sites of indiscriminate tree falling and, worse, huge Marri trees being logged - even though we are assured they are being retained for habitat. Tiny Jarrah trees, which will never provide good habitat are marked as habitat trees - to falsify the numbers of habitat trees being retained during the current logging programs. Black cockatoos need Marri - for food and for nesting hollows. They also need Jarrah as complimentary food.

Lesley Dewar Tuesday 21 February, 2012 - 2:11 PM
The fact is that only a small portion of the original forests in the SW remain. So to say that logging is acceptable and maybe sustaining our environment is not reasonable.

Mandy Monday 20 February, 2012 - 8:02 PM
Jess Beckerling makes a clear argument. The industry and government cannot deny the truth and the people of WA will not stand for the decimation of our native forests any longer.
Good on you 6PR for providing the forum for this debate.
Donna Selby

Donna Selby Sunday 19 February, 2012 - 3:47 PM
Why don't you actually get someone who knows something about cockatoos - not people who are pushing their own agenda. The curator at the WA Museum told the conservationists that there was a lot of peddling of untruths about cockatoos, including his observation that the birds aren't starving at all.

Axel Sunday 19 February, 2012 - 9:43 AM
The FPC guideline actually does prescribe that where they exist 5 primary trees must remain in each hectare in addition to 6 to 8 secondary habitat trees - for nesting and feeding for the birds. The guideline allows for more of these trees to retained, the 5 and 6 to 8 are minimum requirements.

Gerry Georgatos Saturday 18 February, 2012 - 1:40 PM
Council of Australian Council Governments (COAG) reports, 2004, argue against arbitrary prescriptions and schedules. Community Forums need to take place in each town in the south west so residents are properly informed - and these Forums need to include WAFA, CC, FPC, DEC, etc. Forestry does have an impact on ecosystems and habitats and it is an incredible statement to argue otherwise.

Gerry Georgatos Saturday 18 February, 2012 - 1:19 PM