Statement – Blue Derby Wild, 18 March 2021
STT Logging Will Impact Mountain Bike Trails
Over 8 million dollars of federal grants have been sunk into the mountain bike trails around the Blue Derby network.
Community group Blue Derby Wild have worked hard advocating for the protection of the forests around their home town, and the many benefits they bring intact. Despite this Sustainable Timbers Tasmania have carried on regardless and in the past couple of days have started logging and road construction in the Krushka’s forest area known as CC119A by the logging industry.
“Sending in the bulldozers is economic and environmental vandalism that the Tasmanian Government has permitted in logging the forested hills that have created so much prosperity for our region and Tasmania,” said a spokesperson from Blue Derby Wild.
The hill that overlooks the town of Derby has three current logging coupes scheduled that surround the Krushka’s, Dambusters and Atlas MTB trails.
Logging the forests and natural assets that brings so many people to our part of the world is undermining these taxpayer grants, and the future of eco based tourism in the region in the interest of propping up a loss-making industry that is heavily subsidised by the taxpayers of Tasmania,” said the spokesperson.
International Day of Forests
Join Blue Derby Wild on International Day of Forests to stand up against the loggign currently taking place at Krushka’s forests CC119A, an iconic part of the Blue Derby MTB trail network.
Join us in calling on Premier Peter Gutwein to halt logging of these forests in the hills surrounding Derby and the Blue Derby MTB trails. The Premier must stop destroying the natural assets that host the MTB trails that millions of tax payer dollars have been given to build. You can contact him at this link.
Every 21 March since 2012 has been designated as a UN observance called “International Day of Forests”. It was established by the UN General Assembly as a day to appreciate the importance of forests and of trees to our world and to raise awareness of the threat of runaway deforestation.
Over 32 million acres of forests are lost with every passing year. This removes vital habitats for numerous plant and animal species, lowers carbon dioxide absorption and oxygen production, and increases the world’s collective carbon footprint. In fact, almost as much CO2 is emitted during deforestation efforts as is emmited by the world transportation industry.
We will have online and on ground opportunities to stand up for the Gondwanic remnant forests of north east Tasmania. They are worth more standing!
RSVP to be the first in the know for how you can be part of standing up for our forests, our community and a future where we value our forests. Let’s keep Blue Derby Wild!
