[Huon Forests] Media Release Logging road halted in call for forests solution – Southern Tasmania

[jenny weber]

Media Release



Logging road halted in call for forests solution – Southern Tasmania



Conservationists have today entered forest in Southern Tasmania that is
being logged.  Today’s action is being made to highlight the construction of
a large new logging road adjacent to the Hartz Mountains National
Park.  Conservationists
are calling for a solution to the forest crisis facing Tasmania.



Twenty Tasmanian forest campaigners have established a tripod, to call
attention to the logging for a new road that will allow access to decimate
thousands of hectares of untouched forest contiguous with the Tasmanian
Wilderness World Heritage Area. These forests were in 1976 removed from
Hartz Mountains National Park.



"Tasmania is facing a forest crisis, with precious high conservation value
forests threatened by new logging roads and timber industry jobs
disappearing as Gunns collapses. There is an urgent need to save forests and
protect jobs by implementing a real solution to this crisis," said Huon
Valley Environment Centre’s Jenny Weber



"It is foolish to be bulldozing huge new roads into pristine areas of
forest, right under the nose of our national parks, when world markets and
local communities have rejected the logging of Tasmania’s native forest,"
said Jenny Weber



"The Huon Valley Environment Centre is calling for an immediate end to all
logging in high conservation value forests. Protection of these forests is
vital. It is now clear that a decade of pro-logging policy

has not secured jobs or sustainable futures for regional communities," said
Jenny Weber.



"We are calling on all political parties to work together to ensure that
these forests are protected for their outstanding natural and cultural
values." Jenny Weber said.



Australia’s rich old growth forests are deserving of protection.  And also
today in East Gippsland, Victoria, Conservationists have entered an old
growth forest that is being logged, where one conservationist is 30 metres
up a tree platform which is attached to five logging machines.



Media Release


Forestry Tasmania’s Jeffery’s Spins a Forest Yarn,

“Forestry Tasmania’s Ken Jeffery’s has attempted to take attention away from
the highly contentious logging that is planned for high conservation value
forest that was once a national park, by spinning a forest yarn that
conservationists have failed to bring up the issue in the past,”  Huon
Valley Environment Centre’s Jenny Weber said.,

“Huon Valley Environment Centre has on a number of occasions raised concerns
about this road development in the Picton Valley, where today’s protest is
being held.  In 2007 Campaigners from the centre raised concerns about this
logging, a number of times with Forestry Tasmania, again in 2008 these
concerns were raised with Federal Politicians in Canberra and this World
Heritage Bordering forest was raised in all lobbying of the World Heritage
Bureau,” Jenny Weber said.,

“This logging is the start of a number of logging threats that will access a
large area of high conservation value forest that was once in the Hartz
Mountains National Park,” Jenny Weber said., Contact, Jenny Weber, 0427 366
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