End Native Forest Logging Petitioner - Takesa Frank

End Native Forest Logging Petitioner Takesa Frank has started something important with her parliamentary e-Petition. NSW Parliament will now debate the protection of our State Forests. Hear her tell Environmental as Anything what got her started and where to next.

She says "We saw the bushfires destroy 80 per cent of South Coast forests and less than a month later Forestry NSW came into these and started logging,"

"It was really devastating to see that firsthand and watch them destroy the forests we helped protect."

Ms Frank's petition on the parliamentary website asked the Legislative Assembly to:

• Develop a plan to transition the native forestry industry to 100 per cent sustainable plantations by 2024
• In the interim, place a moratorium on public native forest logging until the regulatory framework reflects the recommendations of the leaked Natural Resources Commission report
• Immediately protect high-conservation value forests through gazettal in the National Parks estate
• Ban the use of native forest materials

Both major parties are yet to support the transition out of native forest logging.

"This is what the people want, and if you don't start acting on it that's when the voters are going to change [their vote]," Ms Frank said.

"We're so close to a state election that they're going to have to start listening to the people." Takesa reckons