doesn: Responding to a joint Guardian Australia/ABC investigation, Littleproud said the Victorian government and industry have been asking for carbon credits out of native forestry for some time, according to The Guardian. What I've simply said is that we should explore that It doesn't sit within my remit, it sits with the environment minister Melissa Price. The minister cited concerns over the future of the Australian beekeeping industry and the knock-on impacts for farmers for his support, saying It seems as though it is common sense. But we should be pragmatic around that and when industry themselves are asking for it, that's when I start to twig my ears to look for a solution to work with state governments to make sure that a practical solution is achieved . Victoria's environment minister, Lily D'Ambrosio, welcomed Littleproud's intervention, but said We've been pressing the federal government for years now on the development of a carbon methodology that recognises the valuable contribution that preserving our forests makes to combating climate change and we've had no proper response, certainly no willingness to do just that. The letters reveal that after initial enthusiasm, the commonwealth told Victoria the development of a methodology to generate carbon credits and help conservation focused activities on public native forests was not a high priority. Logging of old-growth forests should stop, Victorian environment department says Read more Leaked letters In leaked correspondence last month to D'Ambrosio, Littleproud made it clear he was intervening on behalf of beekeepers who had told him that regional forest agreements RFAs have failed the bee-keeping industry . Littleproud's letter to D'Ambrosio is the latest in a series of eight letters between commonwealth and Victorian ministers going back four years which centre around secret plans to exit or drastically wind back native forest logging in Victoria.
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