Aire River Forests

The Aire River Forests are to the south of Lavers Hill and Beech Forest. (Note: does not include Head of Aire River. See map) About 40% of the total Aire River Catchment (9,800 hectares) is made up of the Aire forest(native). Five major forested sub-catchments with very high conservation values are threatened by clearfell logging. These sub-catchments are: Youngs Creek Ciancio Creek Aire River - Victorian Heritage River Clearwater Creek Ford River

Little Aire Falls

High conservation values

The high conservation values of these sub-catchments include:

• Rainforest Sites of Significance (RSOS). The Aire Valley is the rainforest stronghold of the Otways with three recognised RSOS. These are:
  · Aire-Youngs Creek national RSOS.
  · Clearwater creek state RSOS.
  · Redwater Creek state RSOS.
  
  
• High natural cathcment values of Clearwater creek.Link
  
  
• Heritage River values of Aire River.Link
  
  
• Endangered Species such as the Tiger Quoll and Slender Tree furn

Community campaigns

Community campaigns to stop clearfell logging in the Aire river catchment include:

• Ciancio Creek
• Halls Ridge

Clearfell logging threats

Threats caused by clearfell logging to Aire River rainforest include:

• Elevation of Myrtle Wilt threatens rainforest communities
• Elevation of myrtle wilt threatens regional tourism industry through destruction of scenic values at icon tourist attractions.

See more about Rainforest Sites of Significance

See more about Ciancio Creek

See more about Myrtle Wilt

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