The Global Warming Forest Group (GWFG) made several requests to various government departments involved in the logging process not to log the remaining wandoo stands inside Jolly forest block east of Bridgetown. This never happened and, as can be seen in the picture (above), the trees were logged.
Whilst GWFG members were doing one of their regular public consultations with the Forest Products Commission in Jolly forest members asked the FPC officers what the wandoo logs were to be used for.
GWFG members were shocked when the response was that they were going to be sold for firewood to a private contractor from Wagin.
Wandoo woodlands are unique to Western Australia. Now 98% of them have been cleared for agriculture That means that all the animal species that relied upon that wandoo have dramatically decreased. Wandoo is also under threat from the phenomenon of ‘Wandoo Crown Decline’ (WCD) a disease severely affecting remaining wandoo stands.
