Tasmania Continues Landclearing by Another Name, Work Halted on Giant Weld Valley Clearfell

"Activists have highlighted the destructive impact of large scale cable logging on steep slopes in the lower Weld Valley. Logging in pristine forest, tagged by Forestry Tasmania as "WRO12C", was halted today with a tree sit erected on the main access route," Huon Valley Environment Centre spokesperson Jenny Weber said.

"Forestry Tasmania claims it has ended landclearing, but these huge clear fells occurring in leatherwood-rich ancient forest on steep slopes, are just landclearing by another name," Jenny Weber said.

"Research shows that converting old forests to young regrowth, managed on 80 year rotations leads to massive carbon losses to the atmosphere. In this age of drought and climate change, Australia's old growth forests are too precious to plunder," Jenny Weber said.

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Images of the logging area, by photographer Matt Newton, see photos here