From jweber at nativeforest.net Wed Feb 1 10:37:59 2012 From: jweber at nativeforest.net (jenny weber) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 20:37:59 +1100 Subject: [Huon Forests] Huon Valley Environment Centre Update - New and exciting events for the forests Message-ID: Huon Valley Environment Centre Update *1. Launch Ta Ann online action campaign* *2. Letterboxing volunteers needed* *3. Artists behind the action Exhibition* *4. Weld Echo 2012* 1. Launch Ta Ann online action campaign Huon Valley Environment Centre, in partnership with The Last Stand and Markets For Change, launched an innovative new chapter to the Ta Ann campaign. We have launched a fantastic new website, http://taann.com.au/ With up to date images of threatened forests that will be logged for Ta Ann. See the gallery, a photograph of a mother wombat and her baby, these special ones were seen at a coupe that is due to be logged before February in the Picton Valley, just last week. At the new website you can take action to contact the Japanese customers of Ta Ann. We would like the concerned community to contact the Japanese companies and tell them that logging in Tasmania for Ta Ann is in old growth and high conservation value forests and they should pressure Ta Ann to cease sourcing their timber from these areas. https://taann.good.do/cyberaction/stop-walking-on-tasmania-s-ancient-forests/ And also on the new website you can see the news coverage from last night. We were featured in the Australian newspaper today with a colour image of our action in the Picton Valley yesterday. http://vimeo.com/35983585 We also launched a new pamphlet, Busting the Myths on Tasmania's forests issue. We are letterboxing these pamphlets around Hobart. 2. *Volunteer - Hit the pavement with us - Spread the word* If you are intersted and willing to letterbox the new Ta Ann pamphlets, please contact me jweber at nativeforest.net. We are walking the pavement in South Hobart, West Hobart, Ferntree and Ridgeway. We need your help to cover households and inform them. 3. *Artists Behind the Action - Ends this Sunday 5 February 2012* Church Studio Franklin invites you to view Artists Behind the Action, an exhibition of prints and artworks to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Huon Valley Environment Centre. Artworks are for sale and the proceeds will be donated to the Huon Valley Environment Centre. Featured Artists, Raymond Arnold, Senator Bob Brown, Wolfgang Glowacki, Matthew Newton, Marcus Tatton, Simon Pankhurst, Deborah Wace, Kaye Green, Rob Blakers, Michael Schlitz, Andrew Donohoe, GW Bot, Glenda Orr, Milan Milojevic, Nic Goodwolf, Ros Meeker, There is also some very special commissioned limited edition box set prints. Gallery Hours Monday - Sunday 11am - 5pm 3408 Huon Hwy Franklin 4. *Weld Echo 2012* *Opening Night Friday Feb 17th, from 6pm. Special Guest speaker Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne. Drink, nibbles, speakers - All Welcome!* *When* Friday, February 17, 2012 at 6:00pm until Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 5:00pm Held annually since 2005, Weld Echo is a collaborative exhibition of works inspired by the wild Weld Valley of Southern Tasma...nia. All funds raised contribute towards the continuing campaign to protect the Weld Valley from industrial logging. Weld Echo is always an incredible experience, with many artists contributing stunning art works, all for sale. Presented by the Black Sassy Collective - the artists collective of the Huon Valley Environment Centre, celebrating a decade of forest defence. www.huon.org *If you are interested in exhibiting in the show, contact us.* -- Jenny Weber Huon Valley Environment Centre www.huon.org www.nativeforest.net 0427 366 929 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jweber at nativeforest.net Mon Feb 6 04:41:09 2012 From: jweber at nativeforest.net (jenny weber) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 14:41:09 +1100 Subject: [Huon Forests] Update from Huon Valley Environment Centre - Today's Action Message-ID: See images of our press conference and the celery top pine specimen we have had dated. The abc report. And our media alert from this morning. A person is still in the sit at the Picton valley right now. http://taann.com.au/2012/02/06/picton-valley-action-and-release-of-ancient-celery-top-pine/ http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-06/20120206-green-groups-claim-evidence-of-old-growth-logging/3813488 Media Alert - 6/02/2012 Conservationists Protest Old Growth Logging for Ta Ann WHAT: Press conference with Huon Valley Environment Centre WHERE: Parliament Lawns, Hobart WHEN: Noon today Today, conservationists from the Huon Valley Environment Centre have released a sample of a celery top pine we believe to be more than 250 years old. The sample was obtained from controversial Picton Valley logging coupe PC024B, where logging in high conservation value forest have been halted by conservationists this morning. Eight people have disrupted logging this morning, by setting up a tree sit. The celery top pine is an example of the destruction being wrought upon all elements of the Picton Valley forest, whether or not Ta Ann takes every log. The sample of the celery top pine clearly demonstrates that the forest currently being logged in the Picton Valley is part of an old growth ecosystem. Furthermore, sections of the coupe were mapped as old growth forest during the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement process. This coupe is being logged to supply wood to Ta Ann, and their wood supply requirements are cited in official documents as the driver for logging this coupe which is inside the 430,000 hectares. ?Ta Ann have admitted that old growth forests are being logged to supply their timber. The fact that Ta Ann only mills smaller logs taken from areas of high conservation value does not excuse the source of supply? said Huon Valley Environment Centre campaigner Jenny Weber. After conducting citizen science in the logging area, tree ring counting found that the logged celery top pine was 280 years old, starting its growth at approximately 1732. Using the methodology of dendrochronological techniques, we have indicated that this celery top pine was growing in this forest that is now being destroyed, when the Huon was being explored by D'Entrecasteaux in1792. ?Ta Ann Tasmania public relations material emphasises that they mill regrowth logs. This implies incorrectly that there are no adverse environmental impacts associated with their operations. It is not true that regrowth logs will always originate from regrowth forests ? old growth forests can contain regrowth elements as a result of the dynamic ecology of these forest ecosystems' said Jenny Weber. ?We are losing globally significant forests for Ta Ann, meanwhile they are selling their timber as environmentally friendly and plantation sourced in Japan. Our campaign intends to inform their corporate customers of the true source of the timber from Tasmania?s high conservation value and old growth forests,? Jenny Weber said. -- Jenny Weber Huon Valley Environment Centre www.huon.org www.nativeforest.net 0427 366 929 -- Jenny Weber Huon Valley Environment Centre www.huon.org www.nativeforest.net 0427 366 929 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jweber at nativeforest.net Sat Feb 11 10:11:59 2012 From: jweber at nativeforest.net (jenny weber) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:11:59 +1100 Subject: [Huon Forests] Join the International Day of Action this Wednesday Message-ID: There?s only one week to go until hundreds of amazing people around the globe take a stand for Tassie?s forests in a massive 24 hours of action! It?s easy to take part ? Jump on board, wherever you live, and stand up for Tasmania?s spectacular forests which are still being destroyed by logging operations right now! Join the amazing Miranda Gibson (who?s now spending her 56th day in the ObserverTree !) and people right across the planet on Tuesday 14th or Wednesday 15th February 2012 to stand up for our forests. Check the event page on facebookor get more info HERE. And make sure you confirm your action with the wonderful ObserverTree crew as soon as possible by emailing observertree2011 at gmail.com. -- Jenny Weber Huon Valley Environment Centre www.huon.org www.nativeforest.net 0427 366 929 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jweber at nativeforest.net Mon Feb 20 08:35:03 2012 From: jweber at nativeforest.net (jenny weber) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:35:03 +1100 Subject: [Huon Forests] OPERATION 8 FILM SHOWING - THURSDAY 23rd. HVEC In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey all Short notice I know, but we are holding a film night at the Huon Valley Environment Centre this thursday screening "Operation 8". Its at 6pm, there will be cakes. We are going to try and have a film showing once a week so if you fancy organising one, get hold of me. A bit about Operation 8: On October 15th 2007, activists around New Zealand woke to guns in their faces. Black-clad police smashed down doors, dragging families out onto roads and detaining some without food or water. In the village of Ruatoki, helicopters hovered while locals were stopped at roadblocks. Operation 8 involved 18 months of invasive surveillance of Maori sovereignty and peace activists accused of attending terrorist training camps in the Urewera ranges ? homeland of the Tuhoe people. Operation 8 asks why and how the raids took place. How did the War on Terror become a global witch-hunt of political dissenters reaching even to the South Pacific? http://cutcutcut.com/Operation8.html http://october15thsolidarity.info/ Hope to see you there peace erik Re-Direct Action and eRaise Awareness -- Jenny Weber Huon Valley Environment Centre www.huon.org www.nativeforest.net 0427 366 929 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: