Chaelundi National Park

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Chaelundi National Park
Chaelundi National Park, New South Wales
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Coordinates: 29 ° 56 ′ 39 ″  S , 152 ° 30 ′ 39 ″  E
Location: New South Wales , Australia
Specialty: Primary forest
Next city: Dorrigo, Grafton
Surface: 191.74 km²
Founding: January 1, 1997
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The Chaelundi National Park is a national park in the northeast of the Australian state of New South Wales , 455 km north of Sydney , about 50 km northwest of Dorrigo and about 50 km southwest of Grafton .

Ecological importance

The park has 7,500 hectares of primary forest and 11,000 hectares of untouched landscape. 187 native and introduced animal species live there.

history

The land that was previously a state forest (for logging!) Was declared a national park in January 1997.

Legal prelude

Between 1989 and 1991, members of the North East Forrest Alliance filed a series of lawsuits with the NSW Land and Environment Court to protect the Dorrigo forest from continued logging. A key case was the interpretation of p. 99 of the National Parks and Wildlife Act (1974) which stated that it would be a criminal offense to "remove or kill an endangered species". Judge Paul Stein described the primary forest as a “real, forest-dependent zoo”. The ruling confirmed that “removal of an animal species” can also mean the destruction or alteration of their habitat, as is associated with deforestation. This judgment was appealed to the Supreme Court , but it was unsuccessful.

This legal battle was accompanied by a logging blockade carried out by more experienced and inexperienced green activists on the ground. Many of them camped in the forest and chained themselves in concrete tubes or on tripods 6 m high.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Corkill geg. Forestry Commission of New South Wales (1991) 73 126 LGRA
  2. ↑ Corkill geg. Forestry Commission of New South Wales (1991) 73 247 LRGA
  3. ^ I. Cohen: Green Fire. An Account of the Australian Environmental Protest Movement . Angus and Robertson (1997). Cape. 13. pp. 181-202: Chaelundi Wild Forest Spirit