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* November 2019 - The Victorian government announces it will end native logging in the state by 2030<br> * January 2020 - Warburton Environment Inc launches a Supreme Court action against VicForests for failing to comply with regulations, alleging the company illegally harvested the endangered tree geebung<br> * September 2021 - Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan announces native logging will be banned in the state from the end of 2023.<br> The move is expected to cost 400 [https://www.caringbridge.org/search?q=timber%20industry timber industry] jobs<br> * November 2021 - Private investigator Alan Davey reveals to the ABC he has been hired by VicForests to follow and uncover "dirt" on environmentalist Sarah Rees.<br> VicForests board of directors commissions an external investigation into the claims<br> * May 2022 - Supreme Court hearings begin in Environment East Gippsland and Kinglake Friends of the Forest's case against VicForests for failing to adequately survey for two endangered possum species<br> * August 2022 - The Sustainable Forests Timber Amendment Act passes the Victorian parliament.<br> The law brings harsher penalties to protesters on logging sites and gives authorised officers additional powers to search containers, bags and vehicles for prohibited items<br> * September 2022 - The Victorian government announces a $120 million investment to plant an extra 16 million soft timber trees in a new estate with Hancock Victorian Plantations<br> * October 2022 - The Victorian auditor general releases a report finding gaps in VicForests' data prevented the Office of the Conservation Regulator from assessing non-compliance in native forest harvesting<br> * October 2022 - The Supreme Court finds VicForests illegally logged in areas home to endangered tree geebungs, grants injunctions preventing logging in the central highlands<br> * November 2022 - The Supreme Court finds VicForests failed to meet its legal obligations to adequately survey for greater gliders and [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?sel=site&searchPhrase=yellow-bellied%20gliders yellow-bellied gliders] while harvesting in [https://dict.leo.org/?search=East%20Gippsland East Gippsland] in eastern Victoria.<br> The [https://www.healthynewage.com/?s=court%20grants court grants] injunctions until VicForests improves its survey practices<br> * December 2022 - VicForests posted a loss of $52.4 million in the 2012/22 financial year as it navigated legal challenges, stand-down payments and compensation for failing to supply customers<br> * January 2023 - Maryvale Mill produces its last ream of copy paper on January 21.<br> It's owner, Japanese-owned Opal Australian Paper, [https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/search?search_api_views_fulltext=announces announces] it will end white paper production but continue to make brown paper and board to supply its packaging division<br> * February 2023 - Opal Australian Paper closes its Maryvale paper mill, citing a lack of hardwood.<br><br>The closure of [https://www.gameinformer.com/search?keyword=Australia%27s Australia's] last white paper mill leads to 200 job losses<br> * March 2023 - VicForests trials drones to survey for endangered gliders, which seem unfazed by the technique<br> * May 2023 - The Victorian government [https://www.martindale.com/Results.aspx?ft=2&frm=freesearch&lfd=Y&afs=announces announces] Victorian native logging will end in 2024, six years earlier than expected,  [https://www.rsudkotamakassar.or.id/?tt=ikhez&s=planet88(link:~higgs88.co~),planet88(link:~higgs88.co~),planet88tt palsu] with workers and infrastructure to be supported with a $200 million transition package<br>