[Huon Forests] South Weld camp busted by 20 Police

[Adam Burling]

6 May 20009

*Weld Valley World Heritage Value Forest added to Bartletts Chopping Block*

*Conservationists Evicted from Forest Camp*

Tasmania’s Premier David Bartlett undertakes another massacre of World
Heritage Value forest. Destruction of high conservation value wilderness
forest continues with Tasmania Police today evicting conservationists from a
camp in the Weld Valley, southern Tasmania.

“For the past two months conservationists have conducted a non violent
presence in the South Weld World Heritage Value forests in the Weld Valley.
Tall Eucalypt forests that are adjacent to the TWWHA border are under
immediate threat from logging, this ecosystem in irreplaceable,” Huon Valley
Environment Centre’s Jenny Weber said.

“Conservationists used a web of protective ropes indicated by high
visibility tape illustrating what trees are attached with rope to tree
structures. A Forestry Tasmania employee was informed of the detail of the
ropes that create a non violent web of protection for the ancient trees in
this South Weld Forest. These highly visible ropes can easily be removed,”
Jenny Weber said.

“Premier Bartlett has shown himself to be inept to act on the concerns of
the people of Tasmania and the world, who are calling for Tasmania’s high
conservation value forests to be protected. He is unwilling to take any real
action to protect these ancient ecosystems and would rather stand by and see
wildlife habitat destroyed, ancient forests decimated and huge fires reduce
the forest to ash, in true Labor Government style,” Jenny Weber said.
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