Another attempt by the Bob Brown Foundation (BBF) to heritage list large parts of Tasmania’s North-West and West Coast has been rejected by the Federal Government. Sources: Timberbiz, The Mercury
Emergency national heritage listing of the Tarkine was refused, in a blow for environmentalists trying to stop a tailings dam proposed for the Rosebery Mine.
Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley has rejected a push by the environmentalist Bob Foundation for the large North-West and West Coast area in Tasmania to be listed.
Bob Brown Foundation campaigner Scott Jordan said Ms Ley’s reply was to the effect she believed the Tarkine was sufficiently protected at this time.
Unfortunately, environmentalists like the BBF appear to be ignoring the science, which has again been proven through the IPCC report, that a balance of reserved native forests, working native forests and plantation forests is the environmental outcome the world needs to slow climate change.
In Tasmania, forest management practices, and an achievement of a sustainable forestry model is world leading.
The industry is drawing carbon from the atmosphere and through re-establishing both native and plantation forests after harvest we are doing this in the most sustainable and efficient way possible according to the science.
Bob Brown’s “anything but forestry” attitude needs to change. It is time to accept that forestry is the solution to replacing carbon intensive non-renewable like steel, concrete and plastic.
It is time to place a higher value on the fact that forestry is drawing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in natural, biodegradable and essential forest products like housing, furniture and fibre.
