Opinion: Don't repeat the Mt Killiecrankie disaster in the Kalang headwaters

By Catherine Eaglesham
Updated July 30 2019 - 10:43am, first published July 22 2019 - 9:30am
A photo of the landslip site taken in 1992
A photo of the landslip site taken in 1992

During the 1990s, many environmentalists in Bellingen were involved in non-violent direct action campaigns led by the North East Forest Alliance to save the remaining old growth forests. The forests saved were included in the Comprehensive Adequate and Representative Reserve System based on nationally agreed criteria for the protection of forest biodiversity, old growth and wilderness values. These forests are now re-exposed to logging under the Integrated Forestry Operations Approval of 2018.

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