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Gunns, Ltd. has a history of strong-arming the government and citizenry in pursuit of trees and profits. Gunns operations have resulted in convictions and fines for breaching the Forest Practices Code and causing major environmental damage to a Tasman Peninsula waterway[xiii]. Out-of-control Napalm burns started by Forestry Tasmania and Gunns have incinerated areas of national parks, World Heritage sites and private land, and are intense enough to create massive mushroom clouds typically associated only with atomic weapons. Under the legal protection of special exemptions from national and state laws granted by the government’s Regional Forest Agreement, Gunns has routinely ordered the destruction of pristine areas identified for permanent protection by the United Nations World Heritage Bureau. Under current Tasmanian law, the company is not required to file environmental impact statements
In the process of clear felling and otherwise vandalising Tasmania's native forests, Gunn's Ltd. is also ridding the island of such pests as the wallabies, possums, wombats, quolls, Tasmanian devils and wedge-tailed eagles that trespass on its plantations. The company uses poison bait known as 1080 to wipe out these unwelcome intruders. Gunns also destroy and or prevent the re-growth of vegetation with herbicidal poisons distributed by aerial spraying (helicopter or other) or tractor wholesale spraying.
Gunns’ demand for sawlogs and veneer-logs rams new roads and logging into previously untouched valleys. This is destroying wilderness and oldgrowth forests in famous areas such as the South-West wilderness such as the Styx Valley of the Giants, the Great Western Tiers, the Tarkine, the North-East Highlands/ Demand for big, straight trees for sawlogs and veneer is also driving logging operations on to steep slopes, especially in the Styx Valley and North-East Highlands. This is carried out using ‘cable logging’ – a means of clearing slopes that would otherwise be too steep to log. Guess what happens when you clear a slope?
In the UK and parts of Europe, despite rafts of evidence to suggest otherwise, the continued logging of Tasmania's forests is being certified as sustainable.
PEFC (Who is PEFC? click here) is certifying Tasmania's unsustainable forestry schemes (and therefore forest products) as being environmentally sustainable, while Tasmania's native forests are destroyed at an unrelenting rate.
Tasmania's unsustainable forestry practices include poisoning tens of thousands of animals with 1080 poison every year, mass conversion of native forest to short rotation plantations, and fire bombing forest with napalm, producing more than 30 per cent of Tasmania's annual greenhouse gas emissions.
The Wilderness Society and Wildlife Tasmania is calling on the UK and German governments to remove their support for PEFC. The forest practices PEFC approves in Tasmania support a destructive and unsustainable logging industry that sees Gunns Ltd woodchip thousands of hectares of native forest every year.
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WILDLIFE TASMANIA
Its All About The Wildlife!
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At a time when native waterbirds are being severely impacted by limited habit and adverse climatic conditions, shooters are claiming to have bagged over 35,000 ducks during this year's open season. The figures are provided by the Department of Primary Industries and Water (DPIW) and compiled from shooters' licence returns. Animal and environment groups are seriously questioning the validity of the figures.(more information)
KILLING AND MAIMING NATIVE BIRDS (Ducks)
Gunns Ltd is the world’s largest exporter of hardwood woodchips and the company responsible for the destruction of forests across Tasmania. Gunns propose to build a native forest based, chlorine bleaching pulp mill in Tasmania’s scenic Tamar Valley. It will lead to a dramatic increase in the rate of logging in Tasmania, pollute the air of the local community and pump billions of litres of toxic pollution into Bass Strait each year. Economic impacts of the mills’ operation will threaten the existence of businesses across Tasmania, especially in the Tamar Valley.(more information)
Lethal Control of Marsupials click here
THIS SITE HAS BEEN DEVELOPED FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE COMMUNITY INTERESTED IN NATIVE WILDLIFE AND THEIR HABITAT.
The State Labor Goverment, Forestry Tasmania and Gunns Limited are Vandalizing Tasmania's Native Forests and Wildlife.
Hundreds of thousands of wild animals are killed, injured and orphaned throughout Tasmania as a direct consequence of human activities. As government resources for wildlife management dwindle, much of the work of rescuing and caring for these animals falls on the shoulders of volunteer organisations such as Wildlife Tasmania.
Rated by the USA Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
as a chemical “BAD ACTOR”
and a MALE REPRODUCTIVE TOXIN, 1080 is also rated as a Class 1a EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL, by the World Health Organisation. (W.H.O.) (United Nations) and even in small doses can produce reproductive defects in humans. 1080 MAY BE AN ENDOCRINE DISTRUPTOR.
Recent research by scientist’s worldwide has raised very serious doubts about whether the continued use of 1080 is safe for total environmental and human health. The old justifications by the Tasmanian Government to use 1080 are no longer valid (more information)
Gunns' pulp mill impacts – Environment, heritage, economy and community threatened
We must remove this corrupted Tasmanian State Labor Goverment from office in 2010.
Bartlett’s philistine Tarkine folly click here
To Kill a Mutton Bird click here
Triazine health tests 'flawed' click here
Stop the spin click here
Tassie devil on endangered list click here
