Press Release
17th January, 2007

Weld Valley walk-in to witness wilderness destruction

In the past week, behind locked gates, wilderness forests in The Lower Weld Valley have been attacked, and their world heritage qualities devalued at an alarming rate.

This Sunday people have a chance to come along and bear witness to the beauty and the sad loss of  these threatened
ancient forests.

“A community Walk In will be held leaving Huon Valley Environment Centre at 10am and continuing to the edge of the Weld Valley,” Huon Valley Environment Centre Spokesperson Jenny Weber said.

“Forestry Tasmania’s unprecedented eleventh hour attempt to put an injunction on the Huon Valley Environment Centre is merely a distraction from their accelerated detruction of wilderness forest. Heavy machinery and chainsaws have been working on overdrive  to rapidly devalue this precious landscape,” Jenny Weber said.