New national park in northern NSW affecting timber industry

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Trees within the proposed boundaries of Great Koala National Park in northern New South Wales are now off limits to the timber industry - in a bid to protect koalas and their habitat.

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00:00The supply of hardwood harvested from the stunning forests of northern New South Wales

00:08has just been cut by 40 percent.

00:12In September, the state government announced a Great Koala National Park will be established

00:17to protect both koalas and the forests.

00:21176,000 hectares of state forest will be transferred to the National Park Register.

00:29It meant an immediate moratorium on logging in the park's proposed boundaries.

00:34Hundreds of jobs in six mills and harvesting operations will be affected, prompting local

00:40timber workers to protest.

00:43A support package will keep mills operating until the end of the year to clear backlogs

00:52and fill final orders.

00:54More redundancies are expected after that.

00:59Mark Jackson sees another future where forestry still has a role.

01:05He's been replanting forests for decades.

01:07We're looking at repairing the environment and regenerating the environment and creating

01:12a wealth of forest resources so that there's enough for endangered critters, there's enough

01:17for the timber industry to grow and there's enough that we're putting the fabric of Australia's

01:22ecology back together.

01:24That's where we need to get to and the beautiful thing is that we've now pretty much got to

01:28the point where we've got the resources, the tools, the knowledge.

01:32Mark sees opportunities for forestry in the nation's environmental markets for carbon

01:37and biodiversity.

01:39Mark Jackson believes these financial incentives can encourage the growth of more forests in

01:45Australia for environmental and industry uses and drive demand for new jobs.

01:51Mark Jackson means that given that most of the carbon market is currently investing in

01:58nature repair type activities, that we'll have unparalleled levels of resources going into

02:04reforestation projects.

02:06What we still need to do though is make sure that we're getting the right forest in the right

02:10place for the right reason.

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