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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

Forestry Corp admissions ward off criminal trial

Trees were illegally felled in the Wild Cattle Creek State Forest. (HANDOUT/GUMBAYNGGIRR CONSERVATION GROUP)

The NSW Forestry Corporation has admitted destroying precious hollow-bearing habitat trees in an eleventh-hour move that avoids a criminal trial that would have explored its conduct in detail.

Public interest advocate John Corkill was seeking special permission to be heard at the trial, which had been due to start this week in the Land and Environment Court.

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