• Huon Valley Environment Centre hit by vandals for 5th time in six months
Volunteers at the Huon Valley Environment Centre arrived this morning to find large graffitti with a hate message sprawled across it’s premises.
Vandals had painted No Greens on the front window and wall of the environment centre in Huonville.
‘This is the fifth incident of vandalism at the Huon Valley Environment Centre in six months.
“It comes on top of death threats and calls by pro-loggers to burn down our centre.
“We operate a space where community volunteers work for environment protection, children attend the environment centre regularly and hate crimes such as these are not justified by people who may be frustrated by our activities,’ Huon Valley Environment Centre Spokesperson Jenny Weber said.
“I feel upset and angry that we are being continuously targeted through violence because of our non-violent work for Tasmania’s forests.
“Most of the volunteers who work here regularly have young families: we come here to work for the forests, which is our democratic right.
“This is the sort of attacks we constantly have to face and it is unacceptable,” said Jacque Ashworth.
The incident has been reported to the police.
• This MR was first published yesterday on this thread, Rethink FT: The devastating truth about a Rogue Agency, where significant initial comment was made.
Pic: by Rob Blakers, http://www.robblakers.com/
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Spectacular New Aerial Footage Reinforces the Case for a Moratorium
Whilst awaiting responses to their olive branch offering to encourage resumption of forest peace talks, the four environmental organisations checked up on what is happening to the high conservation value forests in southern Tasmania whose values have been substantiated by the Independent Verification Group.
Yesterday there was a large regeneration burn in the Plenty area, active logging operations and a large banner was unfurled in a burnt Weld Valley coupe.
