Media release – The Wilderness Society, 11 November 2022
Wilderness Society takes urgent legal action to protect Tasmania’s forests and swift parrots
The Wilderness Society has lodged an urgent application for pre-action discovery with the Tasmanian Supreme Court seeking the “forest practices plans” from Forestry Tasmania (trading as Sustainable Timber Tasmania (STT)) for the Snow Hill logging coupes at the Eastern Tiers. The matter is now set down to be heard on Wednesday 16 November.
“We believe that STT is unlawfully logging forests, including swift parrot habitat, in the Eastern Tiers. It has refused to make its logging plans public. And it has been refusing to publish these plans for the last two years. The community has a right to know the fate of these local forests and habitat of forest species being driven to extinction,” said Tom Allen, Campaigns Manager for the Wilderness Society Tasmania.
“Tasmania’s forests are globally significant. The swift parrot, the fastest parrot in the world and one of only three migratory parrot species, is unequivocally being driven towards extinction by the Tasmanian Government’s continued logging of its habitat.
“It’s a basic community right that the community knows who the decision-maker is on key public policy questions—which the logging of globally high conservation value forests undeniably is— and what decisions are being made about them.”
Susanne Chandler
November 11, 2022 at 18:39
When are loggers going to stop?
99% of Australia’s forests have gone. They are not replaceable. Soon there won’t be any more old growth Forest left. What are loggers going to do then? We should be doing that now, before we lose any more.
Most trees go to make single use cardboard and toilet paper. What a waste! Complex multispecies replacement forests need to be grown now on a 120 year selective logging cycle, and alternative materials for toilet paper and packaging need to be used instead of wood fibres. There are plenty of candidates for that.
The pioneering spirit has neglected to plan for the future.
Jamie, former logger
November 11, 2022 at 21:14
You can’t even get the tree species correct. It looks like pine to me.
I didn’t know they were habitat for the Swift parrot.
Chief Editor TT
November 15, 2022 at 09:42
The image is for illustrative purposes only. It is a file photo of a chainsaw, not a photo from the actual coupe.
If a person sends us a story with a photo, we will use that. If not, we still require a photo as the main site interface is image-driven. If we use a file photo of our choosing, we almost always ensure that the photo does not actually display on the post. Look up and you’ll see that this is the case here.
Oh, I forgot that loggers never look up lest they might see the wildlife habitat they are destroying.
Alan Hungerford
November 12, 2022 at 10:52
You can go for a drive anywhere in Tasmania, and you’ll see forest destruction and the clear felling of land. It’s absolutely horrific. Then the air is filled with smoke as it is all burnt.
It’s absolute greed from companies and governments.
Judith Matwetwe
November 13, 2022 at 14:42
Conservation in 2022 is such a con, specifically when one notes that a stated COP27 goal is outright imperialism – namely to make one-third of OUR planet ‘preserved and protected’ – that is, lock up 30% of all land and oceans by 2030.
Also look no further than the slew of gushing articles by myopic legacy media regarding the stampede of billionaire landgrabs locking up vast swathes of our country ‘for conservation of koalas, frogs, fish, parrots’ and you name it- or the sweeping virtuous coverall – ‘biodiversity?’ Oh, bless their sweet philanthropic green hearts! Their true elitist motives are blatantly obvious, namely to accrue more money and more power.
And like their globalist overlords, professional environmental activist groups and their allies don’t like competition from democratically elected governments or exemplary corporate logging companies like SST/Forestry Tasmania competing with their own voracious corporate appetites for more and more ‘private’ real estate.
And on the subject of globalist overlords, in lockstep with COP27, Wall Street has pioneered a new global asset class called ‘natures economy’ or NACs – natural asset companies whose ultimate goal is to extract near-infinite profits from the natural processes they seek to quantify and then monetise.
… From Whitney Webb, ‘Wall Street’s takeover of nature advances with creation of new asset class.’
Sure, it’s a basic community right to be made aware of the local shenanigans being played out here in tiny Tasmania, but it’s a Duty of Care to warn the local community that our pristine island is square in the crosshairs of the global agenda to justify a prison planet driven by delusional climate cult hysteria.
What’s really under threat of extinction here is our basic right to coexist with and benefit from our diverse human relationships to OUR local natural environments.