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Home | Friday 30th January 2009 | Issue 664

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TAS-MANIA

On Saturday, January 20th, a small group of protesters held a demo outside of the Australian Embassy in London, during which two 40-foot trees were scaled and a banner unfurled between them, calling on the Australian government to halt the ongoing destruction of Tasmania’s old growth forest. The action was held in solidarity with the eviction of Camp Florentine in Tazzy two weeks ago, which has been protecting the Upper Florentine Valley for two years now. With 240,000 hectares of ecologically sensitive temperate rainforest available for logging in Tasmania, including the world’s tallest hardwood trees at over 90m high, this struggle has seen some of the most innovative and daring tree top defending from across the globe. Since the recent eviction there have been thirty arrests, two marches en mass into the valley and two huge monopoles erected (on the same day as the UK protest) raising two huge fingers at the villains of the piece – Gunns Ltd and Forestry Tasmania.

Dogged and continual direct action against the rampant destruction of Tasmania’s old growth and high conservation value forests will need to continue to save this beautiful, ancient ecosystem from being pulped to oblivion by these eco-cidal maniacs...

* See www.huon.org and www.stillwildstillthreatened.org



 

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