Massive turnout tipped

David Killick Mercury
ANTI-logging activists are predicting a massive turnout of protesters in the Upper Florentine Valley this weekend. Ula Majewski, of the group Still Wild, Still Threatened, said she expected hundreds of people to head for the forest flashpoint tomorrow. “This will be the biggest forest rally for a number of years. People have been very fired up,” she said.

Wilderness Society spokesman Vica Bayley said the Florentine operation would lose money. “What I’ve heard coming from within Forestry Tasmania is that, (with) this new aggregated retention, this new logging, they log at a loss,” he said. Read more here
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Ula Majewski …
PRESS CONFERENCE. 1PM.

PARLIAMENT LAWNS, HOBART

Still Wild Still Threatened is holding a press conference on Parliament Lawns at 1pm today, detailing a request for the state government to take meaningful and mature action to address the growing community outrage over roading operations in the Upper Florentine Valley.

“Ancient trees are being felled in the World Heritage valued forests of the Upper Florentine every hour. More Tasmanians are becoming outraged at this senseless vandalism. And to date the government response has consisted of attacking peaceful activists and other environmentalists over trivial matters,” said Still Wild Still Threatened spokesperson Ula Majewski.

“Can Resources Minister David Llewellyn tell the Tasmanian people what profit they stand to make from the destruction of an irreplaceable piece of our natural heritage?” Ula Majewski said.

More Florentine Action This Morning

“This morning another road-blocking tree sit structure was erected in the Upper Florentine. Local police undertook the incredibly dangerous step of standing on a tensioned, life-bearing cable and allowing heavy machinery to drive over the cable, seriously endangering an activists, and their own, safety,” Ula Majewski said.
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