Forestry Tasmania is in there right now, like barbarians in a cathedral, destroying critical habitat of the fastest parrot on the planet.
There are likely fewer than a thousand Swift parrots left on earth, but Forestry Tasmania is obliterating high quality foraging & nesting habitat
The fastest parrot on Earth is listed as endangered under the Threatened Species Protection Act and critically endangered under the EPBC Act.
is the 137 000 cubic metres that you say FT will be able to supply the industry with for the next nearly a century from the PTPZ land?
I did ask if you know how long it takes for the carbon that is lost in a clearfelled and and burnt coupe to be recovered because the science is clear.
Can you confirm that within your agency, there was a threat that the state may withdraw its support for the Swift Parrot Recovery Plan?
The subsidies to native forest logging are embedded in those contracts which effectively give away a public resource at a loss.
There's a 66 per cent likelihood that that will be within the next two to three years. That is a distressingly short amount of time.
You called them a lot of privileged people who do not have to think about where the next dollar comes from.
We have 356 000 hectares of carbon rich nationally accredited, biodiverse forests that were created as part of the Tasmanian Forest Agreement.
