“Tasmania’s outstanding native forests will be under increased pressure as a result of the Tasmanian government’s plan to sell off the publicly owned plantations,” Markets For Change CEO Peg Putt said today, after hearing the Ministerial statement on Forestry Tasmania delivered in Parliament.
“Not only will native forests be hammered hard as the only income generating asset left to Forestry Tasmania, but this will include those very important natural treasures that were previously agreed for formal reservation under the Tasmanian Forest Agreement. It will be a massive assault.”
“Sadly, a transition out of logging native forests into utilizing the plantation estate for wood production has been abandoned,” Ms Putt concluded.
Markets For Change CEO Peg Putt
