Forest flash mob with a holiday wish

Dozens of singing and dancing Leadbeater’s Possums and a lively Santa Claus descended on the Bourke St Mall and Flinders Street Station in Melbourne on Thursday in protest of the logging of native forests for Reflex Paper.

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One dancing possum quickly became a crowd as more and more marsupials mingled amongst the Christmas shoppers, shaking their tails to Jingle Bells and holding a banner painted with their Christmas wish - “Please Reflex, protect our homes this Christmas.”

“Logging our forests to make cheap products like Reflex copy paper is threatening to wipe out many of our endangered native species, including Victoria’s faunal emblem, the Leadbeater’s possum,” said our Community Campaigner Pia Perversi-Burchall.

“If Christmas is the season of giving, then Reflex Paper should be moving out of native forests and handing back the last homes of Victoria’s endangered species for permanent protection. Reflex should move its operations into plantations and stop woodchipping our native forests for paper,” added Pia.

“Only 1% of the native forests of the Central Highlands have not been logged or burned,” said Victorian Campaigns Manager Luke Chamberlain. “With only 25 days left to Christmas, the challenge is there for Reflex Paper to stop robbing our wildlife of their homes and once and for all end the woodchipping of our forests.”

“If photocopy paper is on your office Christmas list, we encourage shoppers to choose for the environment and avoid buying Reflex paper,” Mr Chamberlain said.

Show your support! Get your workplace to sign the Ethical Paper Pledge and tell Australian Paper, makers of Reflex, that your workplace won’t be buying Reflex until it is no longer made from Victoria’s native forests (over 1,100 businesses have already signed).