13/05/2025
🔥Victoria is burning! If you are feeling smoked out today that’s because Environment Department has set fire to some of our most valuable forests, from Kinglake to the Yarra Ranges, hence ignoring scientific advise that burnt forest is less resistant to fire than untouched forest and adding to the extinction toll, as millions of insects and animals will be killed including endangered species that are literally running out of places to live. We are not even talking about the impact on the health of communities all over the state including in Melbourne as the air is unbreathable.
As defunct VicForests has essentially been rolled into the Environment Department, someone needs to look into what is going on here - why these massive planned burns against scientific advice, the lack of accountability and transparency as community has no say nor recourse on any of this, the lack of environmental controls (ironic from the environmental dept) as forests that are known home to endangered species are being burnt to the ground and also take a closer look at salvage logging practices in the wake of these planned fires (again against scientific advice). All in all you have to wonder if VicForests’ logging & destruction culture is now ingrained and whether this is yet another example of ‘jobs for the boys’.