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Forest deal ‘greenmails’ the green groups

taann — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:42:34 +0000

The deal designed to end years of protest in the forests of Tasmania hamstrings green groups, barring them from future protest. It is a dangerous precedent. By Bob Brown THE SWIFT PARROT is flying towards extinction. Yet the forest ‘peace deal’ signed between loggers and the Wilderness Society, Australian Conservation Foundation and Environment Tasmania (I(...)

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Brown claims green groups ‘outflanked’ by loggers

taann — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:34:24 +0000

This news item featured on ABC Tasmania. Bob Brown is currently a Director of Markets For Change. The former leader of the Australian Greens believes green groups have signed up to a deficient forestry peace deal because they were outmanoeuvred by the logging industry. Bob Brown claims Tasmanian Greens MPs had no choice but to(...)

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I don’t agree

taann — Fri, 03 May 2013 04:03:08 +0000

by Richard Flanagan So Julia Gillard has declared that she wants the parties who started the so-called Tasmanian forest peace process “to do everything they can to use their abilities to silence those who haven’t gone with the mainstream consensus”. To silence. I lived with the silence of Tasmania for too many years. And now the(...)

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RECIPE FOR FAILURE IN ENDORSEMENT OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WRECKING

taann — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:01:38 +0000

Acceding to Legislative Council amendments to the Tasmanian Forest Agreement legislation is a recipe for failure for all those who hoped the original deal would be an end to destructive logging and community division, Markets For Change said in Hobart today. Japanese customers of Tasmanian product were alerted last week to the gutting of environmental(...)

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Environmentalists call for amended Tasmanian Forest Legislation to be rejected.

taann — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:55:41 +0000

Grass roots environmental groups, the Huon Valley Environment Centre and Still Wild Still Threatened have called on all parties to reject the legislation before the House of Assembly when tabled tomorrow, 30th April. Environmentalists Jenny Weber and Miranda Gibson stated, “Tasmania’s forests deal is unacceptable, it has been for a long time and now these(...)

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The Council’s Torpedo

taann — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:36:25 +0000

by Bob Brown The Legislative Council has fired a torpedo into the Tasmanian Forest Agreement. After the Agreement was struck last year the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, made it clear that she expected it to be implemented without alteration. In perhaps the biggest downpayment in Tasmanian history, the Commonwealth gave $120 million to the collapsed(...)

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Media Release: 26.02.2013 – LEGAL OBLIGATIONS AND COURSE OF ACTION ON WORLD HERITAGE LOGGING OUTLINED TO MINISTER

Ta Ann — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:29:28 +0000

The Australian Environment Minister has been urged to uphold Australia’s international obligations to conserve World Heritage values by using his powers under Australian legislation to halt logging inside Tasmanian forests recently nominated for World Heritage listing. Such logging last week provoked protest action on the forestry access road into Butlers Gorge. A letter based on(...)

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Take cyber action! New film reveals covert logging of World Heritage nominated forests

Ta Ann — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:01:32 +0000

It beggars belief. In the fanfare of official announcements that 124,000 hectares of Tasmania’s forests had been nominated for World Heritage listing the Australian government failed to mention that chainsaws are to continue ripping into the heart of these very forests, destroying their values! We scouted these remote and spectacular places to bring you this(...)

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New cyber action to protect World Heritage nominated forests

Ta Ann — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:29:46 +0000

Take Action now to protect Tasmania’s World Heritage value forests. Current logging in World Heritage nominated Butlers Gorge CLICK HERE to send a message to Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Environment Minister Tony Burke. An important new report finds that while the Australian government has made pledges to protect Tasmania’s priceless temperate rainforests, yet shockingly(...)

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MEDIA RELEASE 14.2.12 LOGGING DESTRUCTION OF AREA NOMINATED FOR WORLD HERITAGE LISTING CONTINUES IN SECRET – EXPOSED BY ENVIRONMENTALISTS

Ta Ann — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:42:25 +0000

World Heritage value forests nominated a fortnight ago by the Australian government for inclusion on the World Heritage register are still not safe and are being logged in secret, Tasmanian environment groups Still Wild Still Threatened, and Huon Valley Environment Centre and national group Markets For Change revealed today. A detailed report as well as(...)

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