Eden report released

May 27, 1998
Issue 
319

Eden report released

By Francesca Davis

The Resource and Conservation Assessment Council released its options report for the first NSW regional forest agreement on May 15.

Four options were presented after a comprehensive regional assessment into the environmental, biological, economic, social and cultural values of the Eden area.

Environmentalists and student activists are unhappy with the report. Penny Hood from the National Union of Students said there was inadequate consultation, and the report failed "to consider all of the potentialities for forest preservation".

The option endorsed by the NSW environment movement represents "the best of a bad lot". Only 57,506 hectares will be added to conservation reserves, while 20,000 square metres of quota sawlog and 265,000 tonnes of pulpwood will be made available to industry each year.

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