Forests Media Releases
- Chandler could move Gunns and Tamar from pulp mill disaster - February 08, 2012
- PM’s forest meetings need to deliver on the agreement - January 16, 2012
- Governments fail to deliver on Forests Agreement - January 12, 2012
- Timber plan a shocker for forests and parks - December 13, 2011
- Christmas Sale – Reflex Paper going cheap, forest homes going forever - November 30, 2011
- Backwards March calls on Premier Baillieu to change direction on environment - November 14, 2011
- Bimblebox Nature Refuge protest comes to Queensland Parliament House - October 26, 2011
- Federal Government kicks Baillieu’s cows out of Alpine National Park - October 20, 2011
- International Report Reveals Global Failure of PEFC Forest Certification Standard - October 17, 2011
- Ta Ann report welcomed – a rapid transition to plantations needed - October 05, 2011
If the Singapore-based private equity firm Richard Chandler Corporation succeeds in taking a controlling stake in Gunns, it has an opportunity to guide the company away from the current pulp mill proposal towards an alternative, socially acceptable plantation-based future, the Wilderness Society said today.
The Wilderness Society and Florentine Protection Society today called on the Prime Minister to use her meetings with Tasmanian colleagues to take control of the Tasmanian forests Agreement and urgently implement the agreed outcome that logging would stop in identified forest areas.
Environment groups said the conservation agreement released today by the Tasmanian and Commonwealth governments did not adequately deliver the first key conservation outcome of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) and urged them to end logging in these unique and important forests.
Leading conservation groups are dismayed at the State government’s new Timber Industry Action Plan which was released today. The Wilderness Society and Victorian National Parks Association both highlighted serious flaws in the plan that fails to protect our native animals, plants and forests.
Around fifty singing and dancing human Leadbeater’s Possums will this morning visit Santa in Bourke St Mall in protest of the logging of native forests for Reflex Paper.
Over 1000 Victorians are expected to march backwards from Parliament House today to highlight the direction the Baillieu Government is taking Victoria on the environment and climate change.
“The case of Bimblebox demonstrates the need to urgently protect nature refuges from destructive mining. The Bligh Government can not claim to be increasing Queensland’s protected area estate through nature refuge agreements when it is clear to all that it’s still open-slather for the mining industry,”
“The Alpine National Park is an Australian icon and should be provided the highest level of protection. The Australian community expects national park protection to mean the place is protected, not a B-grade cattle yard.
Today, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, The Wilderness Society and My Environment have released an international report detailing repeated failures of the Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) forest certification standard. The report is being released globally today.
The Wilderness Society welcomes a report published by the Huon Valley Environment Centre that details Ta Ann’s logging of high conservation value forests, including old growth and explores the eco-friendly marketing of its veneer products in places like Japan.
