This video is called Tasmanian forests.
Review by Susan Austin in Australia:
Lessons from the campaign that saved the Franklin
14 August 2008
The River Runs Free: Exploring & Defending Tasmania’s Wilderness
By Geoff Law
Viking, 2008
292 pages, $32.95The victorious campaign to save the Franklin River in Tasmania’s south-west wilderness has gone down in history as one of the greatest environmental campaigns in Australia, and 25 years on it still serves to demonstrate the power of mass action to people young and old.
Geoff Law’s book The River Runs Free provides an exciting personal account of his involvement in this ground-breaking campaign.
As a young bushwalker growing up in Victoria, Law, who is now a prominent campaigner for the Wilderness Society in Tasmania, realised that “wilderness refreshed the human spirit”, but felt powerless to save the forests of the Victorian Alps from logging and development.
His similarly fatalistic attitude that the destruction of the Franklin River in Tasmania would be impossible to stop, was soon challenged by others, and he was drawn into the campaign.
Law describes media stunts, like floating a giant platypus on the Yarra river and parading sheep dressed like politicians on the lawns outside Parliament House in Hobart, along with national information tours by Bob Brown. Brown, now a Greens senator, helped to found the Tasmanian Wilderness Society and gave up his medical practice to focus on saving the Franklin after being one of the first people to successfully raft down it in 1976.
New evidence backs claims that pioneering Tasmanian eco-warrior Brenda Hean’s plane was sabotaged. Kathy Marks reports: here. And here.
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FOREST/CLIMATE ALERT! Final Push Needed to Stop Australia’s
Tasmanian Ancient Forest Pulping for Throw-Away Paper
Consumption
By Ecological Internet’s Climate Ark, http://www.climateark.org/
and Forest Protection Portal, http://forests.org/
August 30, 2008
TAKE ACTION
Gunns of Australia’s controversial plans to build a huge pulp
mill to make disposable consumer items largely from
clearfelling ancients forests is close to failing, let us
together make a final decisive push to warn off potential
investors and environmental approvals and achieve its
permanent withdrawal
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=australia_tasmania_climate
Plans by Australian woodchip giant Gunns Ltd., to continue
clearcutting of Tasmania’s ancient forests to feed a massive
new paper pulp mill, appear to be near final collapse. Gunns
is scrambling to raise the cash needed to build the AU$2
billion pulp mill and to meet a looming federal government
environmental approval deadline. Chief executive of Leighton
Holdings, the proposed builder of the mill, has even stated
the project is dead. Join us in supporting massive local
protests, and calling upon Australia’s Federal Environment
Minister Peter Garrett to not extend the environmental
approval process, and for the several European pulp interests
to steer clear of funding the project or risk years of protest
and conflict. Let’s join together with local protests and
ensure the Gunns pulp mill proposal is permanently withdrawn
from consideration.
TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=australia_tasmania_climate
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http://www.climateark.org/blog/2008/08/alert_final_push_needed_to_sto.asp
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