MEDIA RELEASE

6 November 2006

New forest blockade defends Tasmania's World Heritage forests

"Threatened forest bordering Southern Tasmania's World Heritage Area is the site of new frontline community efforts to highlight the immanent destruction that is proposed," Spokesperson Warrick Jordan said.

"Community Activists have today, blocked the access route to threatened forest with a giant bee. A tree sit is perched above a community blockade on South Weld rd, in Tasmania's Lower Weld Valley,"

"Ancient Forest by the border of the World Heritage Area, and another on the flanks of the mighty Weld River are two sites that Forestry Tasmania has immediate plans for destruction. Today's effort by community activists will halt access to these threatened forests," Warrick Jordan said.

"Tasmania's Wilderness World Heritage Area is threatened by proposed clearfelling in this new site, a leatherwood rich and globally significant forest. Threatened forests in the Weld Valley deserve immediate protection, instead they are threatened by clearfelling to the World Heritage boundary and new roads in to wilderness water catchments," Spokesperson Jenny Weber said.

Contact

Warrick Jordan
0429 180 343
At protest in Weld Valley

Jenny Weber
0427 366 929
Huon Valley Environment Centre