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Following the discussion on ABC local radio, this document provides detail on the apparently lost/suppressed study on 'Land Degradation in the Bega Catchment' undertaken by the then DLWC and now defunct far South Coast Total Catchment Management Committee.(PDF,740kb)

Report on Forests NSW's Southern Brown Bandicoot survey methods and results (PDF,830kb)

Unpublished submission to the Senate Koala Inquiry about soil, habitat and aspects of the NSW Koala recovery plan yet to be achieved. (PDF,2Mb)

Brief document highlighting concerns about logging in Cpt 2069 of Bermagui State Forest. (PDF,930kb)

Supplementary complaint sent to the OE&H Forestry compliance unit (27 September 2011) about IFOA and F&NP breaches in Compartment 2002, Bermagui State Forest. (PDF,225kb)

Fifth submission to the Senate Koala Inquiry, responding to Forests NSW answers to questions on notice and other NSW government koala information. (PDF,1.1Mb)

Fourth submission to the Senate Koala Inquiry, looking at the koala surveys and data from the perspective of the NSW koala recovery plan. (PDF,812kb)

Second submission to the Senate Koala inquiry with some bits omitted/censored. (PDF, 790kb)

"The adequacy of soil dispersion testing – a comparison of field test methods." Using soil samples taken from different locations in Compartment 2001. (PDF, 2Mb)

Map of Forests NSW fauna transects in Cpt 2001 Bermagui SF derived from eastings and northings in datasheets (JPG, 183kb)

South East Forest Rescue report on logging of koala habitat in Bodalla State Forest(PDF,1.8Mb)

Koala Extinction - Nullica SF and Curalo Lake catchment - Information requested by Forests NSW - March 2011(PDF, 2.8Mb)

Timeline of south coast Aboriginal contact with Europeans pre 1830 til 1997 -Compiled by Andrea Powell as part of a Master of Arts degree (PDF, 87Kb)

Submission to the Senate inquiry into koalas. (PDF, 780Kb)

Objections to Bega Shire Council's proposed grant and loan to the Bermagui Shotgun Club (PDF, 893Kb)

Comments on the NSW Forest Agreements and Integrated Forestry Operations Approvals review (PDF, 256Kb)

Comments on the Forest Stewardship Council's sustainable yield criteria 5.6 (PDF, 635Kb)

Complaint sent to relevant authorities on 4 August 2010 about past and proposed logging in Murrah and Mumbulla State Forests (PDF, 4.4 MB)

Comments on the nomination to list the Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) as a threatened or conservation dependent species under the EPBC Act.(PDF, 1 MB)

Report on Biamanga Aboriginal Place and its management.(PDF, 0.85 MB)

Comments South East Fiber Exports forest furnace proposal, (PDF, 1 MB)

Comments on the adequacy of information in the Harvesting Plan for Compartments 2133-35, Mumbulla SF (PDF, 1.8MB)

Letter to Australian Forestry Standard CEO re Forests NSW lies to the NSW Scientific Committee (PDF, 14KB)

Letter to NSW Police combined with complaint to NCSI about breaches of the IFOA and the Australian Forestry Standard (PDF, 117KB)

Comments on the progress of the NSW Regional Forest Agreements (PDF, 418KB)

Comments on the Federal review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (PDF,115KB)

Submission to the Royal Commission into the 2009 Victorian Bushfires (PDF, 5.1MB)

Comments on the Mimosa Rocks National Park Plan of Management (PDF, 15kb)

Examination of the legality of the recent Bermagui State Forest logging activities (842kb)

Submission to the Garnaut review on Forestry and land use

Comments on the NSW Government on the draft Koala management framework

Submission to the Garnaut review on forestry aspects of an Emissions Trading Scheme

Eden Regional Forest Agreement Review - background documents

Eden RFA project summaries - includes 'Net Harvest Area based on current prescriptions' (NE12-FRA) that shows Forests NSW's former Preferred Management Priority areas like Biamanga Aboriginal Place. (680kb)

The effects of deforestation (150 kb)

Eden logging reports (75kb)

Murrah-Mumbulla Residents Group,comments on the adequacy of soil and water information in the 1994 EIS for the Eden Management Area(117kb)

Evidence Of Massive Landscape Change Unearthed - CSIRO press release on outcomes of sediment studies in the Murrah River-1999 (52 kb)

Ian Little's comments on the NSW Environment Protection Agencies 1996 workshop on soils (34 kb)

Sustainability Day (5 November 2006)

Information sheets
Speech given by Suzanne Foulkes

Management and Research proposals

FOFFs Management and Research Proposals -final draft March 2011 (2.8Mb) .

Towards Adaptive Forest Management - a research paper (200kb).

Fact Sheets

Downloadable information

Reports produced for or by the NSW Government on koalas

  • Report produced by Chris Allen on the Numeralla Koalas in 2001 and on the assumption that these koalas were not translocated(130kb).
  • Copy of a map allegedly showing 'preferred koala habitat' in the Five Forests. Produced by the OEH and printed in the submission to the SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNICATIONS INQUIRY INTO THE STATUS, HEALTH & SUSTAINABILITY OF AUSTRALIA’S KOALA POPULATION from the Conservation Council ACT Region Inc. on behalf of the South East Region Conservation Alliance, 2011(580kb).
  • A statistical analysis of relationships between Koala occupancy and tree habitat in the Bermagui / Murrah area, NSW. Alan Welsh, Ross Cunningham and Christine Donnelly, ANU May 2010 (672kb)
  • DECCW draft report on koala 'populations' in south east NSW prepared for the Threatened Species Scientific Committee- January 2010 (2.5Mb)
  • Nutritional ecology of the Mumbulla koala- Spatial variation in habitat quality effects fine-scale resource use by a low-density koala population Honours thesis summary,Eleanor Stalenberg, June 2010(730 Kb)
  • South Coast Koala Management Framework (1.8Mb)
  • The utility of regularised grid-based sampling for the purposes of identifying areas being utilized by koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in the South-east Forests of NSW – a Pilot Study.(1.3Mb)
  • Interim DECCW report on Bermagui/Murrah/Mumbulla koala surveys (0.75Mb)
  • Images, Maps, and Studies

    Koala Endangered Population Nomination

  • In 2001 as a result of community research the only documented Koala population on the far south coast were nominated as an Endangered Population, likely to become extinct in nature. Around this time the NSW Forestry Commission released research that found eucalyptus dieback in every catchment in the Five Forests. In 2004 Koalas were again nominated by the Australian Koala Foundation, as Vulnerable across their historic range under the Commonwealth's EPBC Act (1999). In 2007 Forests NSW lied to the Scientific Committee, who were either gullible and or stupid enough to believe their claims that koalas are every where and the nomination was rejected.

    Download the full 2001 nomination (46 pages):

  • Further information to Scientific Committee-2003 ( 55KB )
  • Further information to Scientific Committee-2004 ( 18KB )

  • Most recent information to NSW Scientific Committee on preliminary determination(December 2006)

  • Scientific Committee- final determination 2007 ( 23KB )

    Bell Miner Associated Dieback National Forum

  • The National Forum was held at Southern Cross University, Lismore Campus Northern NSW from Wednesday 30 March to Friday 1 April 2005. Download the forum brochure (Acrobat 4 format, 314KB) or read a summary of the conference.