Forests Media Releases
- A change at the top of Gunns would produce win-win for Tasmania - March 16, 2010
- Burnie forum to explore forest solution ideas - March 10, 2010
- Greens’ forest policy a welcome step towards a full forest solution - March 10, 2010
- Conservationists call for immediate Red Gum logging moratorium - March 09, 2010
- Brown's in charge: Keneally backs down on Red Gum protection - March 01, 2010
- Liberals rule out ‘real change’ for the logging industry - March 01, 2010
- Will Keneally keep her Red Gum promise? - March 01, 2010
- Bartlett forestry deal will reinforce current industry crisis - February 26, 2010
- Activists dump Red Gum firewood on Premier Keneally’s doorstep - February 25, 2010
- Old-growth logging report and campaign will lock in community conflict, financial losses and environmental damage - February 25, 2010
Tasmania’s native forests would have a future and jobs at the company would be safer if there was a fundamental change at a Board level at Gunns Limited, The Wilderness Society’s executive director Alec Marr said today. Mr Marr said reports that shareholders are seeking to remove chairman John Gay presented a golden opportunity to shift Gunns onto a more sustainable footing.
Our Common Ground will host a community forum in Burnie this Saturday to explore how Tasmania can resolve the long running conflict over forestry in Tasmania.The community meeting will be chaired by local MLC and President of the Legislative Council Sue Smith, and will feature experts on resource, environmental, industry and tourism issues. 12 noon Saturday 13 March, Burnie Civic Centre
The Wilderness Society today welcomed the Tasmanian Greens Forest Transition strategy as a step in the right direction, offering high-conservation-value forest protection along with a plan for widespread reform to the forest industry. This policy is in stark contrast to the old-style logging policies of Liberal and Labor and offers real hope of resolving the conflict over forestry in Tasmania.
The Wilderness Society today called for an immediate logging moratorium in those forests proposed to be protected as part of the NSW’s Government Red Gum decision.
Both The Wilderness Society and the National Parks Association of NSW today slammed the Keneally Government, following their back down on River Red Gum protection this morning. The decision opens up the heart of the Murray River floodplain, the exceptional Millewa forest, to on-going logging for at least five years.
The Wilderness Society today condemned the Tasmanian Liberals’ forestry policy, describing it as a carbon-copy of Labor’s logging plan and a continuation of the special treatment out-dated politicians have always given to the logging industry.
The National Parks Association of NSW and the Wilderness Society Sydney have this morning unfurled a large banner outside the Premier’s office to urge her to deliver today on her promise for large new Red Gum National Parks.
The Labor Party’s forest policy released by Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett today is another special deal for the logging industry. The policy does nothing to secure jobs in the forestry industry in the long-term, and keeps that industry locked out of twenty-first century market realities, according to the Wilderness Society.
Activists from The Wilderness Society have today dumped a load of River Red Gum Firewood on the doorstep of Kristina Keneally’s Heffron office to highlight the destruction of the Murray River Red Gum Forests.
An advertising campaign and report launched today by forest industry representative group FIAT shows that the Tasmanian logging industry is behind the times and out-of-touch with the realities of the marketplace, according to the Wilderness Society.
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