Richard Colbeck: Green groups propose logging inside World Heritage Area

(Special species contingency coupe inside the 2013 TWWHA extension – Lake Gordon)

As a part of the sham Tasmanian Forest Agreement, ENGOs proposed logging inside the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.

Senator Richard Colbeck, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, said ENGOs chose areas inside the TWWHA for future use by the special species timber industry.

“As part of the sham Tasmanian Forest Agreement process, ENGOs were given responsibility to choose special species contingency coupes. In keeping with the true dishonesty of that process they nominated areas inside the TWWHA,” he said.

“The green groups themselves are proposing logging inside the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area”

The photograph above is an example of a special species contingency coupe chosen by the ENGOs.

This coupe is inside the TWWHA extension near Lake Gordon.

It has been recently harvested and is regenerating, but has little prospect of providing any special species timber for the industry in the foreseeable future, but is still nominated for future harvest.

It demonstrates what a sham the TFA process was.

The fact that areas like this are now included in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area and proposed for future harvesting makes a mockery of the previous Labor/Green governments’ nomination to extend the area in 2013.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator Richard Colbeck