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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Lisa Cox

Forestry Corporation of NSW has ‘a pattern’ of illegally damaging the environment, scathing judgment finds

File photo of a tree canopy in a NSW state forest
The Forestry Corporation pleaded guilty to offences related to the logging of 53 trees in environmentally significant forest near Eden. Photograph: Simon Scott/The Guardian

A court has released a scathing judgment against the New South Wales’ state-owned forest agency, finding it had “a pattern” of illegally damaging the environment and had refused to accept the “true extent of the harm that it has caused”.

The Land and Environment Court fined the Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) $360,000 for offences related to the logging of 53 eucalyptus trees in environmentally significant forest near Eden, in the state’s south, after the black summer bushfires.

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