The Last Rainforest

Borders and legal boundaries are human made artefacts but we often think of them as something god-like or impermanent.

This photo is taken within the Errinundra National Park, and luckily this patch of rainforest escaped last year bushfires.

However, over the years the Park has been increasingly encroached by logging, right up to its boundaries.

The boundaries of Parks and Reserves are often the result of many years of campaigning by grassroots groups, including Traditional Owners that with their efforts have managed to protect areas many times by placing their bodies in front of bulldozers. Literally.

The logging industry sees the landscape and forests as a resource to be extracted. This destructive mindset have left the landscape we have today; incredibly patched and highly sensitive to disturbances like the bushfires we experienced in 2019-20.

By maintaining protected patches of bush without considering the wider ecosystems they belong to we are not treating fire risk or climate change appropriately.

It is because groups concerned with these impacts that areas like this one in the photo were protected in the 1980’s. This history is often omitted in the parks’ information boards. Let’s not forget it next time we visit a National Park.


Come to camp Errinundra to be part of your generation’s fight to protect the last of the unburnt. Check geco.org.au for to know more.




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