SAVE  DEONGWAR  STATE  FOREST

 

Please join us and take action to protect DEONGWAR STATE FOREST.

111km west of Brisbane, Deongwar Forest is a large intact remnant forest with good connectivity to adjoining nature reserves and nearby national parks.

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We are asking the state government to immediately transition this forest to a conservation estate once logging is ceased this year. This will align with the Queensland State Government's 2019 commitment to transition 20,000 hectares of State Forest prior to 31 December 2024.

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The State Government has been logging Deongwar State forest and the forest has been the site of intense bushfires so now is the time to protect this forest and let it recover! 

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This high value conservation forest contains:

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• 4871 hectares of intact native forest including extensive scenic rocky creek systems and associated rainforest

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• habitat for at least 146 protected native animals including the long-nosed potoroo, powerful owl, black-breasted button-quail, white-throated needletail, glossy-black cockatoo, koala and greater glider​​

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• 2661 hectares of koala habitat which represents 55% for its total area 

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• 311 hectares of endangered blackbutt woodland

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• 4700 hectares of greater glider habitat which represents 100% of its total area

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• at least 94 native plant species

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• a critical wildlife corridor connecting adjacent National Parks and other State Forests

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• ecological resilience within the broader landscape offering refuge to wildlife when conditions in other areas may be less desirable, for example during and after bushfire

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• culturally significant areas for the First Nations people

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• an important central node of high elevation climate change refugia within the South East Queensland Biodiversity corridor

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• a young forest that will sequester carbon at a linear rate for hundreds of years