Forest activists have today delivered a formal request for information and maps regarding Forestry Tasmania's current and planned operations in the Upper Florentine.
"Forestry Tasmania claims that 90% of the Upper Florentine is protected. Conservationists have repeatedly requested clear maps and figures to support this assertion, and these have not been forthcoming" Still Wild Still Threatened spokesperson and Triabunna 13 defendant Christo Mills said.
"Forestry Tasmania have previously proclaimed that they have entered into a new era of transparency. If this is true, then they should disclose this information to the Tasmanian public. And if they do not have the appropriate evidence, an explanation should be provided to the Tasmanian public as to why these claims have been made" Christo Mills said.
Still Wild Still Threatened has requested further information, including:
- the total cost of current and planned operations in the Upper Florentine;
- the projected income to the Tasmanian public from those operations;
- the expected number of direct full time jobs resulting from those operations and;
- the proportion of commercially harvestable forests, such as tall eucalypt and rainforest, which is unavailable for harvesting.
"Once again, Forestry Tasmania's public statements are far from convincing. While their bulldozers and axe whackers are destroying the World Heritage valued ancient forests of the Upper Florentine, their woefully inadequate response to public concern is to endlessly repeat facts with no opportunity for assessment of their veracity, " Christo Mills said.
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