VicForests is ignoring the precautionary principle in its approach to logging glider habitat, and its conservation methods are ineffectual, Victoria's Supreme Court has ruled.
A court has found a Stockland proposal for a major residential development could harm a significant wetland, and has criticised ecological evidence given on the company's behalf.
A court has fined the NSW Forestry Corporation $135,600 and ordered it to pay $150,000 in EPA costs for felling trees in koala habitat and other logging exclusion zones.
A Federal Court judge has criticised the fishing industry's poor record on EPBC Act compliance and has expressed doubt about the adequacy of a penalty proposed by the federal Environment Minister.
Opponents of a subdivision application have had a tribunal win, after arguing proposed biodiversity offsets were on an "undevelopable" part of a site that was at risk of sea-level rise.
A court has rejected a Bob Brown Foundation application for an interim order halting work on a mine tailings storage facility, after the company proposing it gave additional undertakings.
Environmentalists have warned industry not to use native timber sourced from VicForests, as they prepare to go to the High Court over a Federal Court decision today in favour of the logging agency.
Existing laws are "more than capable" of underpinning litigation against companies and directors over biodiversity loss, according to MinterEllison partner Sarah Barker.