Welcome Forestdale Residents 

For some time there has been community concern regarding the excessive clearing of essentially protected large native trees and habitat trees.

 

This alarming trend is causing irreversible damage to the unique ecosystem that defines Forestdale - the natural beauty and rural charm with its abundant wildlife is why we all choose to live here.

The Forest4Forestdale community endeavours to safeguard the elements that make Forestdale so special and forge an attitude change to curb this short-term unconscionable trend of unnecessarily removing the native trees from our big shared backyard; it is imperative to recognise that the natural world with its flora and fauna is just as entitled to exist and evolve as we are.

Community and Council need to work together and do everything in their power to preserve and protect the threatened biodiversity and wildlife habitat across urban areas.

Forestdale’s rare and sensitive biodiversity has to be protected.

Local Government must play its part in reversing biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, committing to its own vision for urban areas where the ‘natural environment is protected, enhanced, connected, and celebrated to provide valued spaces for people, plants, and animals now and into the future’.

By signing this petition, we, the residents of Forestdale, urge Logan City Council to immediately uphold the protection of our irreplaceable native trees and habitat trees.

We demand that the rural character of our acreage estate be preserved, as our zoning regulations clearly states; the built form should not dominate the natural landscape.

Forestdale residents are lucky to have many native animals included on the ‘threatened list’ still living in our backyards and public spaces. 

It is important to know that it takes 100-200 years for tree hollows to form and provide shelter for our wildlife to raise their families. It is our job to make sure that we protect these natural resources for future generations to enjoy.

Significant landscape trees are equally essential for a shared community’s well-being; improving air quality, providing valuable shade and healthy soil stability. A group of trees provide natural wind breaks and sound barriers and curbs the excessive urban heat effect, the ambient temperature beneath the canopy is cooler by 11-25°C than the peak temperatures of unshaded surfaces. The above is only achieved with interconnected continuous tree canopy cover that extends over all properties across our unique suburb.

The importance of these protected native trees and habitat trees in our backyards cannot be underestimated they are irreplaceable…these imposing landscape trees is what makes this estate so liveable now and into the future!

To see the forest slowly taken out of Forestdale would be the loss of a lifetime.

Don’t let our beautiful suburb lose its charm and unique environmental contribution…the time to act is now. The Council ePetition and our unified voices will help inform the direction for Forestdale in the upcoming LoganPlan2025.

Join the ‘keep the forest in Forestdale’ campaign so together we can protect and enhance the tree canopy in the area.

Please add your name to the petition if you support this future vision for Forestdale…where community and environment can co-exist.
 

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