More than 30 green groups sign statement after damning report says extending regional forestry agreements ‘would constitute an irrational decision on environmental, economic and social grounds’. Read more in the article published in the Guardian on 18 May 2016.

 An area of the Tasmania’s Styx forest after logging. A report produced last week by the National Parks Association of NSW concluded Australia’s regional forestry agreements resulted in an increase in threatened species. Photograph: Hancock/EPA