{"id":50397,"date":"2020-02-02T00:08:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=50397"},"modified":"2020-02-05T21:38:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T10:38:39","slug":"gruesome-koala-massacre-during-logging-operations-in-victoria-jansant-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/gruesome-koala-massacre-during-logging-operations-in-victoria-jansant-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Gruesome koala massacre during logging operations in Victoria: @jansant reports #springst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dead Koala entangled in bulldozed branches. Photo: Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unknown numbers of koalas \u2013 possibly hundreds \u2013 have been killed during plantation logging operations south west of Portland in Victoria this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friends of the Earth (FOE) reported<\/a> koalas were left to starve after logging operations in late December 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, surviving koalas were bulldozed into slash piles, along with the bodies of those that had already starved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volunteer veterinarians and animal rescuers are frantically working to save surviving koalas entangled in piles of branches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Koala clinging to branches bulldozed into a pile on the ground. Photo: Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

FOE also reported the plantation was operated by South West Fibre in a joint operation with Midway and Japanese company Mitsui.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is another blow for koala populations already decimated by the ongoing bushfire disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volunteer animal rescuer Helen Oakley posted a video to Facebook saying: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia should be ashamed of this, I’m tired and we need help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Clearly distressed, Oakley put out a call on Facebook for volunteers to “walk the rows” to locate koalas. She can be contacted via Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Fibs<\/em> approached the Victorian Environment Minister Lily D’Ambrosio and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews for comment. We will follow up with their responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latest No Fibs<\/em> story on the koala massacre in Victoria: Scale and implications of #KoalaKillers crime still unknown: @jansant reports on #SpringSt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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