As they are logging and clear-cutting the koala forests around Bellingen
"While local perspectives can be misleading, from a global perspective, clear-cutting and clear-cutting-like interventions are endangering the climate and biodiversity. Allowing trees to age, preserving deadwood, and allowing natural regeneration with adapted game populations would have a positive effect on the climate and help mitigate forest damage. This would be active climate and biodiversity protection and should be promoted politically."
"Politicians have a duty to achieve the climate targets and to impose clear obligations on enterprises."
"Businesses, including the forestry and timber industry, are well-informed about the climate and biodiversity crises and must be held accountable for faulty conduct."
"The containment of environmental crime immediately needs clear laws with effective enforcement. Short-sighted economic activities at the expense of future generations and beyond planetary capacities should be made illegal and punished."
"No more delaying, no more wait-and see, no more blame-shifting, no more beating around the bush—we need ambitious action in the right direction. Compliance with the Paris Climate Agreement is the narrow pathway into a future that might resemble the present. Will and efforts to preserve the climate and biodiversity roughly as we know them must be significantly strengthened. Reliable goals and ways of achieving climate neutrality as quickly as possible are the political order of the day. Forests should be no longer the third largest carbon emitter, but part of the solution that would reduce our current emission by around 15%."
Open Access Book >
Stop Rainforest Deforestation
The Most Urgent Way of Combining Climate and Species Protection
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-58144-1_6
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