Friday, May 27, 2011

Is Native Forestry an Endangered Species?


One day you sorry lot will wake up to the fact that “forestry” does not solely mean destroying trees and understorey for corporate profit … the results of your work are clearly visible even from outer space through the destruction left in your wake.

—anonymous contributor to the Tasmanian Times, August 2010

Clearly, some Tasmanians have little regard for the practice of forestry, judging by the savagery with which it has been regularly derided on Hobart-based current affairs blog, the Tasmanian Times. Similar views are also being increasingly held at the political level given the rise of the Greens and independents such as Tasmania’s Andrew Wilkie, who implied soon after his election that the treatment of the state’s native forests was “unethical”.

See full Article.