What does RFA stand for?

Regional Forest Agreement (Australia)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) and their ability to effectively protect endangered species, such as the swift parrot, have recently been the basis of a high profile legal action brought by Tasmania's Senator Bob Brown.

Can a parrot get justice under a Regional Forest Agreement?

Bob Brown's legal team cast fresh doubt on the validity of the current version of Tasmania's Regional Forest Agreement (RFA), arguing that the changes reduce Tasmania's obligations to protect threatened species and that the environmental implications should have been assessed.

Letter to the editor

However, a number of West Australian elites, `good corporate citizens' and blue-ribbon-seat conservatives among them, are objecting to the economic rationalism which seems to be driving the Regional Forest Agreement and Western Australia's leading timber company, Wesfarmers.

ARTS AND FORESTS

Call on the federal government not to renew the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement if the Tarkine rainforests are left unprotected.

Tarkine rainforests: industrial fire sale?

At stake is the presumption that when listed endangered species occur in logging coupes they are no longer protected by the national Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act) because, it is claimed, the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) exempts logging operations.

Landmark forestry conflict playing out in court

The Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement, which provides for unregulated and unlimited export woodchip volumes, has failed to provide the social benefits of employment and the economic prosperity to the island state that it promised.

Chips on our shoulders: Tasmanians have made their feelings clear; ...

More information: Inquiry on the Progress with Implementation of the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement (1997), Final Recommendations Report, December 2002.

Logging Van Diemen's land: is there a green light for more ...

Forests covered by Regional Forest Agreements, which cover a substantial part of Australia's forests and are home to almost half of our biodiversity, are exempted from the operation of the Act.

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