Our native forests are so important. They form one of the best defences we have against the climate crisis - sinking carbon and storing emissions. They are home for our many precious threatened native species and are crucial for the healthy functioning of our waterways. Native forests are simply irreplaceable. 

And yet, in NSW, Labor continues to industrially log our precious forests, even the ones they committed to turn into National Park. Our precious public native forest estate has been flogged for two centuries and it can’t take anymore. Everytime the Government's Forestry Corporation logs one of our forests they make it more susceptible to frequent and intense bush fire, they drive native animals closer to extinction, they diminish landscape resilience and they destroy our frontline defence against the climate crisis. It doesn’t have to be this way. 

Join Sue Higginson in conversation with Professor David Lindenmayer, Mark Graham and Scott "Sooty" Daines to discuss just how important our Native Forests really are, and what we can do to protect them.

Professor David Lindenmayer is a world-leading expert in forestry ecology and resource management, conservation science, and biodiversity conservation. Professor Lindenmayer has recently published an important book - The Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests. This book lifts the lid on the destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of exported woodchips.

Mark is a near-lifelong resident of Gumbaynggirr country on the Mid North Coast. He is the custodian of a network of 3 large private conservation reserves containing pure and ancient ecosystems ranging from the steamy lowlands of the Bellinger Valley to the highest (occasionally snow-capped) peaks of the Dorrigo Plateau. Mark works across science, politics, media, industry and community for the protection, restoration and expansion of our life support systems. Recently he has been dedicating his existence to protecting the Great Koala National Park (that Chris Minns promised to protect) from escalating public-funded extinction industrial logging operations.

Sooty, aka Scott Daines, is a long time forest and climate activist. Sooty has been involved in campaigns for the forests of New South Wales, East Gippsland and Tasmania, the coal mines of Whitehaven and Adani and Woodsides proposed James Price Point gas plant. He is a founding member and currently President of South East Forest Rescue (SEFR) and Convenor of the South East Region Conservation Alliance (SERCA), joint 2019 Bob Brown Foundation Environmentalist of the Year and 2024 Nature Conservation Council Ziggy Megne Volunteer for the Environment Award winner. SEFR is currently taking Forestry Corporation NSW to court over their failure to adequately search for and protect the endangered Greater Gliders.

This event will be held online via Zoom

Join us on Wednesday 12 June @ 6:30pm and take this opportunity to ask your questions.

If you have questions about the event please email office@nsw.greens.org.au or call the Greens NSW office on (02) 9045 6999.

Let's Talk is a regular series. Each month is a different guest speaker and topic.

This event is fully wheelchair accessible. It will be held online.

If you are under 18, your parent or guardian will need to contact the event organiser directly to let them know there will be someone under 18 attending.