Losing the plot as the forests keep falling 4

Conservationists say the Upper Florentine should be world heritage too. It’s cold and wet forest, truly wild, a remnant of greater original swathes bordering the island’s south-west. This year the first of 40-odd planned Upper Florentine coupes was logged to meet industry needs for high value sawlog and veneer. However, up to 90 per cent of the timber was woodchipped, Forestry Tasmania admitted. Read more here