Official Complaint to Forestry over refusal to provide Florentine information
Still Wild Still Threatened has lodged a formal complaint with Forestry Tasmania over its refusal to disclose information regarding logging in the Upper Florentine.
" Last month Still Wild Still Threatened, on behalf of interested sections of the Tasmanian community, requested information regarding logging in the World Heritage valued forests of the Upper Florentine. This included a request for maps supporting Forestry Tasmania's claim that 90% of the Upper Florentine is unavailable for harvesting, "Still Wild Still Threatened spokesperson Ali Alishah said.
" Forestry Tasmania's response was to make media statements that they will not provide information to those who conduct "media stunts", an apparent reference to attempts by community members to deliver the request to Bob Gordon. No correspondence has been received by Still Wild Still Threatened," Ali Alishah said.
" As a taxpayer subsidised government enterprise mandated to manage Tasmania's forests for public benefit, Forestry Tasmania is obliged to provide information to the Tasmanian community. For Forestry Tasmania to make arbitrary judgements as to who should be provided with information reveals an arrogant disregard for community concern over the management of our forests," Ali Alishah said.
" If Bob Gordon is seriously interested in creating a more open and accountable organisation, he would be well placed to make Forestry Tasmania truly responsive to community concerns, rather than resorting to the out of date tactic of keeping the public in the dark," Ali Alishah said.
" Still Wild Still Threatened feels that the wholly inadequate response to this issue justifies a formal complaint, and we hope that the requested information will be provided to the Tasmanian public in the near future," Ali Alishah said.
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