Community | December 24, 2011 | 6 comments

London Olympic builders boycott Tasmanian timber

source: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3396101.htm

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LivingPong
December 22, 2011

"PETER CAVE: The Prime Minister's peace deal was supposed to end decades of conflict in Tasmania's forests. But protests are continuing and now AM can reveal that a London company is boycotting timber products from the island state.

Last month it emerged that timber from Tasmanian forests was being used on London's Olympic building sites."
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6 comments // London Olympic builders boycott Tasmanian timber

  • warman1138
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  

    • I have lived with logging all my life. It is amazing how quickly deforestation habits but how long it take to re grow. Hundreds of years to make a similar environment.

    • 5 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • EdJoyProductions
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      EdJoyProductions  

    • Unfortunately this is going on all over the world. No amount of common sense seems to be any match for greed for profit. We do not need an angry god to destroy us. We are doing a wonderful job of sprinting toward extinction all by ourselves.

    • 5 months ago
  • LivingPong
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      LivingPong  

    • - Video explaining the London Olympic Logging story in more detail

      This year illegal logging of old growth forest was uncovered in Western Australia after the allowable amount of forest to be clear felled was exceeded substantially. Instead of addressing the problem the quota of native forest to be logged was increased to now include any native forest illegally logged. In spite of substantial amounts of plantation timber now being grown, high conservation value native forest is still logged for paper pulp and plywood as it is simply cheaper to buy for large companies than plantation timber.

      Meanwhile the many people who have invested in plantation timber are continuing to struggle and furniture makers can not get access to high quality timber as they only get access to bottom grade logs which contain wood rot and are unworkable for furniture production.

      The actual categorisation of high conservation forest or old growth forest is not based on the age of trees, biodiversity of the area or any of the flora and fauna living beneath the forest canopy. Instead it is based on weather a few tree stumps can be found in the area. If enough tree stumps are found, no matter if it is a small number and they are perhaps 100 years old then the forest loses it's high conservation or old growth status.

      The sustainable categorisation of Australian native forests has nothing to do with their biodiversity, ecosystems they support or the age of trees. It is purely to create an illusion of a well managed forest.

    • 5 months ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • LivingPong:

      "The actual categorisation of high conservation forest or old growth forest is not based on the age of trees, biodiversity of the area or any of the flora and fauna living beneath the forest canopy. Instead it is based on weather a few tree stumps can be found in the area. If enough tree stumps are found, no matter if it is a small number and they are perhaps 100 years old then the forest loses it's high conservation or old growth status. "

      Shameful that we have to "categorize" forests. So then if a major storm goes through one of these forests and many are downed, that means it is then fair game as well? And cuttting down these trees just to build a temporary stadium where products will be sold there that have also compromised our environment unnecesarilly truly shows the excess we as a species have come to. Old growth forests are one of our greater carbon sinks. Thanks for sharing this. Is there any way to stop this?

    • 5 months ago
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