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The Hon Nathan Rees, Premier
Level 40 Governor Macquarie Tower
1 Farrer Place
Sydney NSW 2000

Copy: The Hon. Carmel Tebbutt, Minister for the Environment and Climate Change          

Dear Premier,

I am contacting you because of the urgent need for a regional assessment create Redgum National Parks and bring the Red Gum forests under the Forestry and National Parks Estate Act.

The Part 3A project assessment being conducted by Forests NSW will not deliver much needed National Parks, nor will it ensure that ongoing forestry operations are managed under an Integrated Forestry Operation Approval, like forests in the rest of NSW. I appeal to you to intervene in this issue, and announce the commencement of a regional assessment and the creation of large new National Parks, with Aboriginal ownership where sought by Traditional Owners.      

River Red Gum wetlands are an ecosystem now threatened with total and irreversible collapse as a result of man-made changes in river flows
that have caused widespread death and decline of trees.

Logging of River Red Gum in NSW has a massive environmental impact, with industrial patch-clearfelling still allowed in internationally
significant Ramsar wetlands and riverine forest along the mighty Murray River.

The Riverina bioregion is one of the most poorly-reserved in the country. An urgent commitment is needed by the NSW Government to
start a regional assessment process to deliver new National Parks from State Forests and to restructure the logging industry in the
region.

There should be a thorough consultation process with indigenous traditional owner groups in the region, based on informed consent,
that determines what their aspirations may be for Red Gum public lands in the region and ensures there is joint management of new National
Parks wherever that is sought by indigenous nations.

Please act now Premier! It's the perfect time to deliver an historic, cross-border conservation outcome along the Murray River. The very
survival of the Red Gum forests depends on it.

Yours sincerely,

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