Dailan Pugh was a co-founder of the North East Forest Alliance in 1989 and is currently its president. He has spent most of his time over this period working on forest conservation for which he was awarded an Order of Australia in 2003. He considers that in the midst of our climate and extinction crises it is untenable to continue logging public native forests.
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