Save Bulga Forest!
BULGA LOGGING SCHEDULED TO START ON MAY 20, 2024
Currently about 2000 ha of Bulga forest is being planned for logging, which is about 10 times more than they started last time.
At the moment Forestry are saying they will start operations on July 1st, 2024.
It’s all hands on deck! We held them off last year – WE CAN DO IT AGAIN!
Let’s come together to discuss what we need to do ahead of July.
NEXT MEETING: To coincide with the Elands Markets we’ll meet at:
The Bulga Hall, Elands from around 2pm on Sunday May 12th, 2024
See you there!
The Greater Glider population in the Bulga won’t survive the logging.
If we want kids in the future to be able to have the thrill of spotting them in the wild, then we have to save their homes.
Meet in Elands June 28/29th ready for active defence of our local Greater Gliders!
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Updated, 1st May, 2024. We need you, still.
Logging was suspended in Bulga State Forest on Biripi country- twice! But now currently about 2000 ha of Bulga forest is being planned for logging. About 10 times more than they started last time. At the moment Forestry are saying they will start operations on July1st.
Please join us so we can permanently Save Bulga State Forest on Biripi country. The action by the community here in Bulga Forest over the last year and more has so far forced Forestry Corporation to temporarily delay their plans to destroy the Bulga forest.
We are a small community and really need your solidarity. We know that the climate extremes will continue to manifest and that biodiversity is on a downward spiral. We know too that our creativity, determination and joy has been a really effective tool for keeping Bulga forest standing.
Keep updated by subscribing to our newsletters. There will be some more face-to-face meetings and skill shares. We’ll continue to gather together for citizen science sessions, tripod making and climbing skills, forest craft, signs and banner making, family activities, info nights, dance and more.
There have also been many Greater Glider sightings and there are many more to find. If you are interested in doing a ‘den watch’ let us know. It involves watching a particular tree hollow at dusk to see if a glider emerges.
We are currently in the planning stages for a big meet up in Elands on June 28/29 ready for active defence of our local Greater Gliders!
If you can’t come in person, amplify our voice, share our posts, contact politicians, check out @SaveBulgaForest on Facebook, www.savebulgaforest.org or email [email protected] for more info.
Campaign News
Spring has Sprung and the Babies are out of the Pouches
Spring has Sprung and the Babies are out of the Pouches.
Save Bulga Forest citizen scientists have captured some rare footage of a baby Greater Glider poking out of its mother’s pouch, its tail especially visible.
National Threatened Species Day Rally and March
National Threatened Species Day Rally and March
We will celebrate their existence and mourn their slide towards extinction.
Gliders Galore in Bulga and Dingo State Forests
Gliders Galore in Bulga and Dingo State Forests
The resumption of logging in Bulga State Forest north of Taree appears to be imminent with the Forestry Corporation again closing the forest to the public. Logging was halted there in early 2023 due to sustained pressure from Save Bulga Forest.
Forestry Corporation has an aversion to transparency. They don’t consult on their logging plans and they certainly don’t want people seeing the damage being done to the heads of the catchments of the Hastings and Manning Rivers.
The logging will cause major damage and likely lead to the deaths of Koalas and Greater Gliders, both endangered and both known to be living in the area.
What do we want?
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Permanently
Save Bulga Forest!
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Ask Forestry to permanently cease logging operations in Compartments 41 & 43.
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Add compartments 41 and 43 to Biriwal Bulga National Park
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End all Native forest logging
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Call for major reconsideration of Forestry practices in NSW to be genuinely ecologically sustainable in current environmental/climate context
Diary from the Bulga Forest
Bulga forest Diary Sunday
Another beautiful Autumn day in the Bulga, going down to 8 and is now up to 21.
Lots of new growth around, with this Doodia aspera (Rasp fern) always a lovely spot of colour on the forest floor.
Bulga forest Diary Friday 12th 2023
Diary friday 12 May 2023
Bulga forest Diary Tuesday 9th May 2023
The kaleidoscope of colours in the new growth of a sapling eucalypt are bright points in this grey green forest.
Treesit Diary from the Bulga Forest
Bulga State Forest treesit day 57
Day 57 The Greater Glider, Glossy Black Cockatoo, Spotted Tailed Quoll, Yellow Bellied Glider and Masked Owl are all resident in Bulga Forest.
Bulga State Forest treesit day 56
Day 56 “The enormous emotions as a guardian of the forests weigh heavy, but also as light as the swathes of mist clinging to the grey green hills, we are honoured to be here. “
Bulga State Forest treesit day 55
Day 55, Finally some stars come out after so much cloud.
l see only 2 species of ant up here