Media Release

13th March 2007

Forest Vigil held in Tasmania’s Southern Ancient Forests

“Community Forest Occupation has been successfully halting logging operations, in the Denison Valley, one of Tasmania’s southern forested
valleys. Adjacent to the Weld Valley, where large wilderness areas are being destroyed by logging, people have held a week long peaceful
vigil,” Huon Valley Environment Centre Spokesperson Jenny Weber said.

“New logging operations propose to stretch destructive logging practices in remote wilderness forest from the Denison to the Weld Valley’s. These high conservation value forests border the Tasmanian World Heritage Area and deserve immediate protection for endangered species protection. This area is vital habitat for the Little Denison Crayfish endemic to the Denison Valley and Barnback region,” Jenny Weber said.

“State and Federal Governments are paying lip service to the Wielangta Federal Court decision by continuing to destroy sensitive ecosystems,
and this new logging in the Denison Valley is potentially illegal. We are calling for immediate halt to logging in contentious high conservation value forests,” Jenny Weber said.

Jenny Weber
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