Calls for review of forestry exemption laws after VicForests conservation breaches

A landmark court judgment that a government forestry agency repeatedly breached conservation regulations has sparked calls for a review of an industry-wide exemption for logging under national environment laws.

Lee Godden, the director of Melbourne University’s centre for resources, energy and environmental law, said Justice Debra Mortimer’s reference to the precautionary principle could have wider implications for the forestry industry and the way it prepared for logging.

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