Giant Garrett pays a long overdue visit to the Upper Florentine valley, Tasmania

2008-04-14
Activists from Still Wild Still Threat­ened have wel­comed a 6 metre tall Peter Gar­rett to the Upper Flo­ren­tine Val­ley. Activists took the ‘giant Gar­rett’ on a tour of coupe FO42F which is due to be burnt in the imme­di­ate future and high­light­ed their con­cerns with the con­tin­ued log­ging and burn­ing of some of Tasmania’s most car­bon dense forests. Old growth forests play an essen­tial role in the glob­al car­bon cycle, soak­ing in and stor­ing huge amounts of car­bon from our atmos­phere. The log­ging of FO42F last Sum­mer prompt­ed a num­ber of protests against the con­tin­ued destruc­tion of high con­ser­va­tion val­ue forests in the area.

“We are speak­ing out against the sys­tem­at­ic erad­i­ca­tion of some of our most sig­nif­i­cant car­bon sinks at the hands of local cli­mate crim­i­nals Forestry Tas­ma­nia and Gunns Ltd., and are call­ing on Peter Gar­rett to take imme­di­ate action and halt this ram­pant wood­chip­ping and burn­ing of our pre­cious old growth forests” said Still Wild Still Threat­ened spokesper­son Ula Majew­s­ki.

“It is an envi­ron­men­tal­ly crim­i­nal act to con­tin­ue dec­i­mat­ing and burn­ing these irre­place­able ecosys­tems Pro­tect­ing Tasmania’s ancient forests is a sim­ple, cheap and effec­tive cli­mate change solu­tion” said Ms Majew­s­ki.

It is rumoured that the ‘giant Gar­rett’ will be vis­it­ing a num­ber of threat­ened forests dur­ing the burn sea­son. The details of this tour will be made pub­lic in the near future. Stay tuned.

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