Ken Henry and I reside in Comboyne, the village on the Comboyne Plateau north of the Bulga Plateau. Ken’s father was a logger and he grew up in Taree before becoming Treasury Secretary for Peter Costello and Paul Keating and chairman of the NAB.
Ken, his wife Naomi and I joined citizen scientists in the Bulga State forest twice to spotlight for endangered greater gliders before NSW Forestry Corp began logging. Their findings force it by law to exempt their tree dens and surrounds from logging. They do this because the Corp surveyed for greater gliders by day, despite the marsupials emerging after dusk.
10. A magical, freezing adventure when @SophieScamps & #Comboyne local Ken Henry joined Elands citizen scientists to prove endangered greater gliders live in the Bulga State Forest the NSW Govt wants to log on August 1.
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) July 20, 2024
We won’t let ‘em. My pics. https://t.co/yj9sbQKJPF pic.twitter.com/uuMSouwvi4
24. The life of endangered Greater gliders. #SaveBulgaForest https://t.co/OWGFGk4epf
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) October 2, 2024
Ken is busy with the ‘Accounting for Nature’ project which is creating a method to put an economic value on nature and nature repair before it’s too late. He spoke at last week’s inaugural World Nature Positive Summit as arrests mounted in the Bulga State Forest to delay logging.
Environment Minster Tanya Plibersek said in in her keynote address: “Until our businesses and economic decision makers are factoring the value of nature into our economic decision-making – until our economic settings change – nature will continue to go backwards. We are at the start of the road when it comes to nature positive and turning things around.”
Our job is not just to do the work, but to take others along with us. To build coalitions, with unlikely allies as well as our traditional partners.
Despite the NSW Government co-hosting the summit its environment minster Penny Sharpe was a no show. No wonder – in our interview Ken told me the NSW government has an elaborate environment offset scheme for developers but exempts its own State Forest logging from the scheme.
13. NSW Forestry Corp plans to begin logging endangered greater glider habitat in the Bulga State Forest tomorrow. My alarm is set for 4am. The yellow on the map is for logging and the red dots are proven gg tree homes, most discovered by citizen scientists. #savebulgaforest pic.twitter.com/BgaK3GbDXa
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) September 29, 2024
17. Waiting game – NSW Forestry Corp didn’t start logging the Bulga State Forest today as planned – too wet for them, not the citizens who are ready when they are. #SaveBulgaForest
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) September 30, 2024
Wanna help? https://t.co/yFFFx45y8J pic.twitter.com/V80cf9OTDa
We discussed proposals to save the NSW People’s forests and a frontline running out of puff and needing help.
32. One way to help #SaveBulgaForest https://t.co/unI1eYTISo pic.twitter.com/yZCvLTbZAD
— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) October 5, 2024
More information
My Saturday Paper piece on my arrest is here:
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment/2024/10/19/lock-reporting-protests-joining-them
No Fibs #SaveBulgaForest coverage.
My daily Tele on my 2014 unexpected arrest at the #leardblockade is here:
https://nofibs.com.au/getting-arrested-wtf-is-journalism-and-whos-the-extremist-margokingston1-interview-with-dailytelegraph/
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