Tasmanian Times
Forestry
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1.1KTasmania’s forests vanish as logging continues
Tasmania’s grassroots environment groups have taken peaceful action today to highlight the ongoing loss of forests that should have been protected, after...
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Beauty … in the eye of Dr Amos
Former Forestry Industry Association of Tasmania (FIAT) chairman Dr Julian Amos clearly has scant respect for “every talking head (who) chants the...
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Forests for boiler fuel
The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Forestry Minister Bryan Green to rule out woodchips from high conservation value Tasmanian forests being...
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Giant Freshwater Crayfish: Riches to Rags
An example of an Eco-system nominated for HCV protection … going … going …. Where Bryan Green? By the time it’s finished...
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Farmers are not charities
I can’t get over the images shown on the ABC’s Stateline on October 21, images of former Wilderness Society director Alec Marr...
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Wood — nature’s stroke of genius
Here is some wood promotion material from the Danish Wood Initiative. It is interesting that people in an enlightened community in Europe...
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Wilkinson fears panel bias
An Upper House MP has questioned how the partiality of the panel verifying which state forests will be reserved under the federally-funded...
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Triabunna lease dispute resolved
Conflict over the lease said to be holding up the re-opening of the Triabunna woodchip mill has been resolved. State-owned Tasports has...
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Giant Freshwater Crayfish latest Forestry Tasmania collateral damage …
Experts fear a planned logging operation in Tasmania’s north-west threatens the survival of the Tasmanian giant freshwater lobster. A river system near...
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UK Olympic scandal with endangered Tassie timber
• The Independent, UK: So much for the ‘truly Green Games’: Olympic athletes to train on timber from ‘endangered’ forests Wood from...
