Environment
A Tasmanian tragedy?: How the forestry industry has torn an island apart
JEREMY HANCE, Mongabay.com, Industry is ‘third world banana republic stuff’ alleges local ecological forester
This is by no means a new battle: in fact, Tasmanian industrial foresters and environmentalists have been fighting over the issue of clearcutting the island’s forests for decades. The battle—some would probably prefer ‘war’—is over nothing less than the future of Tasmania. Some Tasmanians see the rich forests that surround them in terms of income, dollars and cents; they see money literally growing on trees, or more appropriately growing on monoculture plantations and government owned native forests. They see the wilderness of Tasmania as an exploitative resource. Read more here