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Dead Koala entangled in bulldozed branches. “A couple had literally been crushed to death when these trees have been uprooted. A logging company, South West Fibre, said it had been engaged to harvest timber from the site in October 2019 and handed the area back the following month.The company said in a statement: “SWF left an appropriate number of ‘habitat trees’ for the existing koala population and provided details of such in a letter to the landowner noting that the koalas were uninjured and in good health.“It is understood that subsequent to SWF completing its work, the remaining trees have since been cleared. About 30 koalas had been euthanised.The Victorian environment minister, Lily D’Ambrosio, said on Monday the event was “devastating” for the koala population in the Portland region and pledged the government would do “everything possible” to bring the perpetrators to account.“Every Victorian can rightly feel not only appalled, deeply saddened and heartbroken, but angry. I am absolutely angry.”Locals reported the incident to the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP), which arrived on site on Friday.Portland resident Helen Oakley posted a video from the site. Victorian wildlife authorities are investigating reports of a "koala massacre" in the state’s south-west, with hundreds of the marsupials alleged to have been starved when their habitat was logged, their bodies then bulldozed into waste piles.Volunteers and government workers were on the scene at Cape Bridgewater on Sunday, trying to rescue dozens of surviving koalas.The deaths are believed to be the result of clear-fell logging of a plantation of bluegum trees, according to conservation group Friends of the Earth, with the operation leaving hundreds of koalas to starve, a version of events disputed by the logging industry.Friends of the Earth said the "koala massacre" came to light when local activists saw bulldozers pushing the bodies of dead koalas into waste piles left over from the main logging operations.The logging industry group said on Sunday that the forestry contractor who harvested the bluegum plantation in November followed all of the stringent wildlife protocols in place to protect koalas.The Australian Forest Products Association says the land and its remaining trees were bulldozed after the contractor had left, with the lobby group pledging to hold its own investigation into the incident.The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning confirmed on Sunday morning that it had been at Cape Bridgewater, about 14 kilometres west of Portland, for several days and had rescued a number of animals.The news comes after many thousands of koala deaths in the bushfires that ravaged the east and north of the state in December and January.The department said it was prepared to prosecute over the events. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size. Koalas starved, says farmer accused of Portland 'massacre' By Noel Towell. “Animals that were considered to not require immediate removal have been provided with food and water.“DELWP are working with the relevant parties on the long-term requirements for the remaining koalas – this may include translocation to suitable sites.”Andy Meddick, a Victorian state Animal Justice Party MP, visited the site on Sunday and told Guardian Australia the trees in the blue gum plantation had been “bulldozed into piles” around the property.“I saw at least 10 bodies in just one of those piles,” he said. Photo: Facebook. Furthermore, we will be ensuring that none of the timber which has been cleared is touched by any AFPA member.” This is particularly concerning to the foresters and staff who worked assiduously to protect the koalas during the harvesting operation.”A company spokesperson said it handed the site back to the owner in mid-November with 72 koalas on site, leaving 10 hectares of “remnant vegetation” on site.“We made every effort to do it professionally, we made every effort to minimise any fatality,” he said. Koala 'massacre': scores of animals found dead or injured after plantation logging This article is more than 6 months old.

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