Chaelundi-Nationalpark
The Chaelundi National Park is a national park in the northeast of the Australian state of New South Wales, 455 kilometers north of Sydney, 50 km north- west of Dorrigo and approximately 50 km south-west of Grafton.
Ecological Significance
The park has 7,500 hectares of primary forest and 11,000 ha of pristine landscape. There live 187 native and introduced animal species.
History
The land, which was previously a state forest (for logging! ) Was declared in January 1997 to the National Park.
Legal foreplay
Between 1989 and 1991 strained members of the Northeast Forrest Alliance a number of complaints to the NSW Land and Environment Court to preserve the forest, located near Dorrigo before continuing logging. A key case concerned the interpretation of S. 99 of the National Parks and Wildlife Act (1974 ), where it was indicated that it would be an offense " to remove an endangered species or kill ". Judge Paul Stone called the primary forest as a "real forest-dependent Zoo". The judgment confirmed that the " removal of a species " the destruction or alteration of their habitat, as it is accompanied by deforestation, can be meant. This judgment was appealed to the Supreme Court, but was not successful.
This litigation was accompanied by a blockade in felling, which was carried out by experienced and inexperienced green activists locally. Many of them camped in the forest and chained themselves to concrete tubes or 6 m high three feet.
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