Australia's forests
Protecting our climate, and protecting our wildlife. Australia has some of the most magnificent and biodiverse forests in the world. New science also shows they are some of the largest carbon banks on Earth, helping to reduce climate change as well as maintain our water supplies. Yet many of these ancient forests, particularly in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales, are clearfelled, burnt, and turned into millions of tonnes of woodchips for paper and cardboard every year.
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| Tasmania's forests |
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More native forest is logged in Tasmania than the rest of Australia combined - including some of the tallest old growth forests in the world. Find out about the threat from the Gunns pulp mill and other issues. |
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| Victoria's forests |
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Victoria's forests are some of the most effective carbon stores in the world, and provide crucial water supply areas. Find out about more about climate change, water, wildlife and logging. |
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| Save NSW's River Red Gums |
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Along the Murray River are the largest remaining red gum forests on Earth. With 75% stressed, dead or dying, these Australian icons urgently need to be protected. |
Forests Updates
- Garnaut shows native forests part of climate solution - October 01, 2008
- Public rally warns shareholders and investors against proposed pulp mill - August 26, 2008
- Help protect the Tiwi Islands from land clearing - August 22, 2008
The final report from Professor Garnaut’s Climate Change Review says that Australia’s greenhouse emissions can be reduced significantly if logging of native forests and land clearing are stopped immediately.
A huge rally on Saturday August 23 saw thousands of people march through Launceston in opposition to Gunns' proposed pulp mill sending a clear message to shareholders and companies considering supporting the carbon-polluting pulp mill - it will not be allowed to proceed.
The Tiwi Islands are a tropical paradise whose forests and wildlife are being destroyed for woodchips. If Stage 2 is approved by the Northern Territory and Commonwealth Governments, approximately 1/8 of the Islands will be destroyed in Northern Australia’s single biggest land clearing operation.
Forests Events
- Forest Tour - Melbourne to Central Highlands
- Film Screening - "Whatever happened to Brenda Hean?"
- Footsteps for a pulp mill free future
Come with The Wilderness Society forest campaigners and volunteers to see the magnificent Central Highlands. The next day-trip is Sunday 9 November 2008.
The remarkable story of Brenda
Hean – a leader of the world’s first environmental
political party – whose fight to save
Tasmania’s Lake Pedder from a massive hydro-electric scheme lead to her
mysterious disappearance in 1972. When - Hobart 5 October, 4pm & Melbourne 9 October, 7pm
Momentum is building to stop the pulp mill. Come to the Tamar
Valley in September, discover what impacts the proposed mill will have, and how
you can make a difference. The event is over three days, Friday 19th - Sunday 21st September.
Forests Media Releases
- Community calls on PM to protect native forests - September 09, 2008
- Rally a chance to send message to Gunns shareholders - August 22, 2008
- Bad news for Tasmania's precious forests - August 19, 2008
More than 10,000 Australians have sent a strong message to the Rudd Government demanding decisive action to protect Australia’s native forests.
Tomorrow’s rally in Launceston is a perfect opportunity for Tasmanians opposed to Gunns’ pulp mill to take a stand and send a message to shareholders considering Gunns’ equity raising venture that the majority of Tasmanians don’t want to see the pulp mill built
Gunns called on to release details of pulp mill wood supply. On Friday 15 August 2008, Gunns announced to the Australian Stock Exchange[1] in a market update that it plans to sell approx. $170 million worth of plantations to help reduce debt.
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