12.01.12 Tasmanian Forest Protest Targets Ta Ann Vessel

This morning in Hobart three conservationists have conducted a
peaceful demonstration against Ta Ann, a vessel is in port loading
high conservation value forests. Two people have attached themselves
to a truck that was in the loading area on the port and loading
operations have ceased.

'Conservationists are today protesting about the ongoing logging in
Tasmania's high conservation value forests for Ta Ann, a Malaysian
logging company. Ta Ann is receiving timber from old growth and high
conservation value forests and they are exporting these forests to
Japan to be sold under the false brand of eco-friendly flooring,' Huon
Valley Environment Centre's Jenny Weber said.

'Ta Ann are the major driver of logging in Tasmania's wilderness
forests, from the world heritage value forests of the far south to the
threatened forests where Miranda Gibson is in the ObserverTree,' Jenny
Weber said.

'The Prime Minister promised protection of forests that are still
being converted in to veneer to serve Ta Ann's insatiable appetite for
Tasmania's natural heritage assets,' Jenny Weber said.