[Huon Forests] Media Release,, ,,5 August 2009,, ,,Tasmania’s Logging onslaught in Weld Valley Halted

[jenny weber]

Media Release

 

5 August 2009

 

Tasmania’s Logging onslaught in Weld Valley Halted    

 

“Today, 20 conservationists have established protest structures on all 
logging access routes to the Weld Valley, southern Tasmania.  In a call 
for an urgent need to protect all of Tasmania's high conservation value 
forests, conservationists have erected two tree sits and a tripod.  The 
current onslaught of logging in the Weld Valley's threatened forests is 
wildlife habitat destruction, contributing to climate change and the 
tragic loss of a large area of wild forests, ” Huon Valley Environment 
Centre’s Jenny Weber said.

 

“Conservationists have set up non violent forest defence structures on 
three logging access routes.  The threatened wild forests of the Weld 
Valley have come under enormous pressure of late with seven areas of 
forest being logged, including forest adjacent to the World Heritage 
Area, forest on the banks of the Huon River and large tracts of old 
growth forest,” Jenny Weber said.

 

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