Forest activists take their protest to the headwaters of the Styx River, Tasmania

2008-05-08

Yes­ter­day morn­ing, com­mu­ni­ty activists halt­ed the log­ging of old growth forests near the head­wa­ters of the Styx Riv­er. Ten activists have peace­ful­ly occu­pied coupe TN47C, locat­ed 100 metres from the TWWHA bound­ary near the base of Mount Mueller to high­light the con­tin­ued destruc­tion of Tas­ma­ni­a’s unique old growth forests.

“Tas­ma­nia is in a state of envi­ron­men­tal emer­gency. Every sin­gle day, our island’s unique old growth forests are felled, bull­dozed and trucked off to the wood­chip­per. Gunns Ltd.‘s stran­gle­hold on the Lennon gov­ern­ment has been high­light­ed again this week and once again it will be our pre­cious car­bon rich forests, the tax­pay­er and the com­mu­ni­ty that will suf­fer as a result of yet anoth­er matey deal between cli­mate crim­i­nals John Gay, Bob Gor­don and Paul Lennon” said Still Wild Still Threat­ened spokesper­son Ula Majew­s­ki.

“We are call­ing on the Rudd gov­ern­ment to take seri­ous action on cli­mate change and put a stop to this out­ra­geous sit­u­a­tion by ensur­ing the imme­di­ate pro­tec­tion of ancient forests in the Styx, Weld and Upper Flo­ren­tine val­leys. The con­tin­ued dev­as­ta­tion of Tas­ma­ni­a’s old growth forests has glob­al ram­i­fi­ca­tions and must be halt­ed imme­di­ate­ly” said Miss Majew­s­ki.

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For­est activists will con­tin­ue to take peace­ful action against the con­tin­ued log­ging of Tas­ma­ni­a’s south­ern forests.