Whilst the logging industry is claiming that logging and post-logging burning is carbon neutral, resarch from Australia clearly shows that logged forests store 40-60% less carbon than unlogged forests.

Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have shown that 'natural forests, undisturbed by intensive human land-use activities, represent a large store of carbon. These ecosystems are resiliant, contain high biodiversity, and the carbon pools have long residence times.'

The temperate forests of the South West, like other Australian temperate forests, are some of the most carbon-dense forests in the world. 

The ANU analyses 'showed that stock of carbon in natural eucalypt forests in south-eastern Australia is an average of 640 tonnes of total carbon per hectare (biomass plus soil), with 360 tonnes of biomass carbon per hectare (living plus dead biomass.)

Similar research needs to be done in WA so that the greenhouse gas contributions of the WA native logging industry can be counted along with the other detrimental impacts of logging.