Media
Opponents chip away at payment to Gunns for forest rights
The Age
Andrew Darby
October 4, 2011
A PAYMENT of $23 million by the federal government to Gunns Ltd has come under renewed scrutiny over whether the embattled forestry company was entitled to the money.
Victorian environment laws put to the test
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Premier resists release of Gunns' compo advice
abc.net.au
September 29, 2011
The Tasmanian Premier is under more pressure to release the Solicitor-General's advice about the payout to Gunns for their native timber contracts.
More to logs than jobs
By Prue Acton
ABC Environment | 28 Sep 2011
Logging the forests of south east Australia releases three per cent of our carbon dioxide emissions, and destroys precious biodiversity. Yet this activity is subsidised by our governments.
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Forest peace deal test
abc.net.au
September 27, 2011
The forest peace deal will be tested in the Upper House today.
Legislative Councillors will vote on a motion to oppose the $276 million agreement to end almost all native forest logging in the state.
Kmart envelopes fail rainforest test
The Age
Paddy Manning
September 26, 2011
LABORATORY testing of Kmart's Indonesian-made Office One home-brand envelopes shows they contain 19 per cent mixed tropical hardwood fibre sourced from rainforest.
Trees caught in a trap
By Kath Gannaway
The Mountain Views Mail
20th September 2011
The call from ANU forest ecologist Professor David Lindenmayer comes following the publication of a paper in the US Journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which looks at 'landscape traps' and their effect on forest environments.
The paper, on which Healesville ANU researcher David Blair also worked, identifies the Central Highlands as a “landscape trap' an ecosystem detrimentally changed by human action and natural disturbance.
Toolangi forest logging halted until 2012
Leader Newspapers
19 Sep 11 by Emily Webb
A HALT on logging in a Toolangi forest has been extended until February, 2012.
Court extends Sylvia Creek logging injunction
abc.net.au/news
September 19, 2011
The Victorian Supreme Court has extended a ban on logging at a contentious site north-east of Melbourne until next year.
Environmentalists took the government's forestry arm, VicForests, to court last month over its timber operations at Sylvia Creek, near Toolangi.
They argue the site is home to the threatened Leadbeaters possum.
Like a voice in the wilderness
The Canberra Times
ROSSLYN BEEBY
17 Sep, 2011
'Life on earth is inconceivable without trees,'' the great Russian playwright Anton Chekov wrote in a letter to a friend in the late 1880s. ''Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilisation nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe.''