WORLD'S TALLEST KNOWN SPOTTED GUM IN DANGER!!
The South Coast, our home, our backyard. For us here at Ocean & Earth we’re lucky enough to live amongst this rugged wave-rich coastline. It is a wild and beautiful space, full of everything crucial for epic surf trips. Many trips have been planned and executed here in this part of Australia. Think about it, most of those trips you’ve scored! Rarely skunked.
In 2004, Old Blotchy was also threatened with logging from NSW Forestry. However after a decade long battle mainly lead by Friend of Durras, the state forest was incorporated into the Murramurang National Park, protecting Old Blotchy and his 3 big friends. We need this level of protection for Big Spotty!
But this is about much more than saving the forest for one tree!
The majority of our native South Coast forests are being logged for low grade timber products like woodchips to be sent overseas to make throwaway products like paper and pallets, destroying critical habitat for our unique endangered animals like the Greater Glider, Glossy Black Cockatoo, Powerful Owls, Gang Gang Cockatoo, Koala and Swift Parrot.
Endangered Greater Glider
We’re hoping you can take a look at your South Coast backyard and appreciate its beauty or reminisce on those surf trips travelling down here and pledge a little for the cause @andrewkaineder is leading to save BIG SPOTTY, its surrounding native South Coast Forest, and of course all of the unique endangered animals, like us who call it home.
Art by @lukeplayer
Photos by @andrewkaineder & @oliver.risi
By donating even a small amount to the campaign you are putting your name to the rapidly growing list of people opposing the logging of this specific forest and open to considering change.
