ALERT! Encourage Gunns to Keep Promise to End Tasmanian Native Forest Logging & Urge Australia to End Such Logging Nationwide Now
The announcement by Gunns Ltd. pulp and logging company of Tasmania, Australia [search] that they will discontinue their involvement with primary native forest logging in Tasmania is wonderful progress. Yet Gunns has not immediately done so and logging continues in the Huon Valley. Nor should Gunns have illusions that a paper and pulp mill industry based upon toxic chlorine-bleaching, plantation monocrops [search] and ocean dumping will be acceptable. If Gunns does in fact keep and implement its promise (a big if, given their record), a global precedent has been set that old-growth native forest logging is finished. The new Australia government must follow-up by announcing an end to all old-growth native forest logging, and to promote forest and job restoration areas.
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Gunns Ltd is still logging primary forests
(http://www.huon.org/node/1131) and they continue to sue activists
(http://www.stillwildstillthreatened.org/current-news/donate-triabunna-13-now-help-us-fight-forces-darkness).
There is nothing they should be thanked for. Once they actually move
(whenever that is) out of native forests then there might be something
to celebrate, in the interim sending them thanking emails does not
help. In fact I believe it is sending a bad message to supporters,
saying that one of most notorious and morally bankrupt logging
companies in the world (and I do not say that lightly) should be
thanked just for posing the idea they will end native forest logging.
Posted by: Adam Burling | October 6, 2010 6:37 PM
Dear Adam,
Thank you so much for taking the time to present your concerns. We agree that the use of the word "Thank" in the title was misleading and have changed it. Otherwise the demands were in agreement with your concern, though we have edited some language to incorporate your feedback in the letters and background too. Again, I am confident the central message of the alert - Gunns noting your statement, keep your promise and until you do nothing has changed. Thank you again for your feedback - we share the commitment to ending native forest logging.
Glen
Posted by: Dr. Glen Barry
|
October 6, 2010 8:06 PM