When the Labor Government finally halted logging in the promised Great Koala National Park, the Forest Advocacy Ministry started hosting gatherings on Tuesdays in various forests, in collaboration with local defenders, to keep meeting together, to share, and to start repairing some of the forests in a mostly symbolic way.

With the ongoing need for valuable habitat and connectivity to be preserved, despite political pressure to ignore ‘plantations’, and with areas outside the park still under threat, the regular ‘forest folk’ gatherings have stopped so people can focus on those needs, and the Forest Advocacy ministry can lend our energy. For what is still needed in the GKNP see Delivering a truly “World Class” Great Koala National Park Comprehensive reserve assessment and selection, urgent gazettal and conservation management all needed (JANUARY 2026)

To help out, you can join in with the Forest Ecology Alliance, Friends of Pine Creek (or the Pine Creek signal group), Friends of Tuckers Nob, or find out whats happening out at Styx RIver or even further afield. Drop by the Forest Information Hub up the west end of Bellingen or keep an eye out for groups at market stalls.

If you are looking for a gathering which includes some ritual and reflection and has forest lovers at it, you might want to check out ‘Under the Tree‘- first Sundays of the month, at 9:30 outside the church at 800 Timboon Road, Gleniffer.