Forestry

So there is not a lot of outrage in Australia, so the protest against the timber industry in Tasmania moves to San Fransciso and the rest of the world... Yesterday Paul West from the Rainforest Action Network put out the following media release. … [Read more...] about Worldwide Protest Against Australian Forestry

Tasmanians will go to the polls on 18th March. Of course with an election in Australia or Tasmania comes the usual bagging of the forest industry and timber company Gunns Ltd. This time a proposed pulp mill is developing as the point of contention, … [Read more...] about How Much Forest Should Be Saved?

I was interested to read in today's Courier-Mail (pg 29) that Queensland Premier Peter Beattie considers it "immoral" for a national as wealthy as Australia to rely on developing nations to provide its medical workforce. The Premier was referring to … [Read more...] about Importing Doctors and Trees is Immoral

"Australia has 155 million hectares of native forests. About 10 percent - 11 million hectares - of those forests are managed for wood production with less than 1 percent being harvested in any one year. The small proportion of forests that is … [Read more...] about Martin Ferguson Promotes Australian Forestry

Ian Mott, a contributor to this blog, has noted in a comment at an earlier post that: The Queensland Cabinet is currently considering "phasing out" private native forestry on freehold land. And for all the families that have not only protected … [Read more...] about Don’t Cut Trees in Queensland