World Forests Day - 21 March 2018. This week Stand up for the Forests in Perth and other places around the country.  Make your voice heard in a different way by contributing your craft skills.  And book now for the Forests Forever Easter Ecology Camp up at Goongerah in East Gippsland. Featured image - Lewin Forest (WAFA)

Around the country logging blockades and protests are happening and planned; a huge crowd turned out in Hobart to protect takayna/Tarkine in the run up to the Tasmanian election. Meanwhile the Victorian government sits on reported logging breaches by VicForests and the Great Forest National Park enters the Batman by-election

Update, 15 Feb:  NSW groups have pulled out of the government 'consultations' on extending the RFA because the outcome is predetermined.

The "third" so-called five-year performance review of Victoria's RFAs is a prelude to making them permanent. Make a submission before COB on Monday 29 January whether you're in Victoria or elsewhere.

The message is simple - no more RFAs.

On 14 November, community group Friends of  Leadbeater's Possum, represented by Environmental Justice Australia, launched a landmark challenge to the 'logging exemption' from federal environment laws. The 'logging exemption' allows native forest logging 'in accordance with' a Regional Forest Agreement to proceed without federal assessment or approval even where it impacts on threatened species like the Greater Glider and Leadbeater's Possum. The challenge, nicknamed the 'Possums case', could have national implications.