Native Forests Logging – Effects on Climate
Do you recognise that logging and burning native forests has a negative impact on the climate?
Do you recognise that logging and burning native forests has a negative impact on the climate?
The greenhouse gas emissions report shows our state gross carbon emissions have continued business as usual for the past three decades.
There are 39,000 hectares of biodiverse reserve forests the Liberals plan to log and burn, and they won’t tell Tasmanians where those forests are.
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.