Permanent Timber Production Zone Conversion
Honourable Speaker, lutruwita/Tasmania's Reserve Estate is the most iconic value that this beautiful state possesses.
Honourable Speaker, lutruwita/Tasmania's Reserve Estate is the most iconic value that this beautiful state possesses.
The 39,000 hectares your government plans to log are currently sitting within the Reserve Estate. They are your responsibility. You are also responsible for the Threatened Species Protection Act.
We understand that you will be doing media today on the delisting of some animals and plants from Tasmania's threatened species list. That is welcome, but while you are celebrating the delisting, your government is also ramping up its plan to log and burn critical native forest habitat.
The Greens understand you have written to Minister Duigan requesting that 27 parcels of future potential production forests be made available for logging. Communities across the state are anxious that these high conservation forests that they believed were preserved for all time will be destroyed by you and your government.
If your climate-denying agenda was not already obvious to Tasmanians, yesterday it reached new heights. State Growth employees were told the retrograde forestry industry was being realigned to sit within, of all places, Renewables, Climate and Future Industries Tasmania (ReCFIT).
In the past month, protesters have been doing what they can to prevent logging in the Arthur River forests.
Clearly, there is going to be a strong role - not only for the Labor opposition and the Greens opposition, but the crossbench - to scrutinise the agenda going forward.
The Tasmanian Greens extend our gratitude to Ali Alishah for his dedication to protecting this island's forests, and recognise the significant personal sacrifices he has made.
A key policy of your election campaign was your plan to go into 40,000 hectares of high-conservation value reserve forests to log and burn them - a climate crime.
The Greens strongly support the Bob Brown Foundation protesters facing court today, and thank them for being such passionate and courageous advocates for Tasmania’s forests.