Tasmanian Times
Forestry
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969Expert internal advice to Government identified logging will ‘significantly affect WH values’
Photos by Bill Hatcher of Weld Valley forest that the Liberals would like to open up for logging. Government says no logging...
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Heroic Clare Rewcastle Brown as Malaysia teeters …
As Malaysian democracy STUTTERS, heroic and HARASSED editor of SARAWAK REPORT Clare Rewcastle Brown defiantly resists a bid for an international warrant...
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Not Gunns again …
There are fears forest contractors in Tasmania and interstate face potential bankruptcy because of new legal action being taken by Gunns Limited...
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This is our humble abode …
The tiny U-shaped clearing in the centre of this image is where our house is. What was once pasture is now monoculture...
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Another Forestry Tasmania lie …
The intense heat generated from Forestry Tasmania’s ‘regeneration burns’ (also called napalming) is necessary for new growth, says FT. But a recent...
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Native forest policy full of loopholes and inadequate to protect species and climate
*Pic: From here: in Carbon accounting & FT profitability The Wilderness Society and Environment Tasmania have responded to a review of the...
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Carbon accounting & FT profitability
As Forestry Tasmania (FT) contemplates its future, a future free of government subsidies, its rolling 3 year production plan for native forest...
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Ta Ann, Forestry Tasmania and the loss-making Take-or-Pay Contracts
*Pic: Heart of Darkness? Matt ( [email protected] , www.matthewnewton.com.au ) Newton’s aerial shot of Ta Ann Southwood, Huon Valley, taken just last...
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The ‘appalling consultation’ over planning scheme changes …
Single Statewide Planning Scheme will take the local out of local government planning The Tasmanian Conservation Trust is gravely concerned that the...
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UTAS VC office occupied …
A large crowd of over 100 people occupied the Vice Chancellor’s Office today. “These people are here today to tell UTAS that...
