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Tassie Pulp Mill

To: "Evan Beaver" <>, "Tony Russell" <>, "Birding-aus \(E-mail\)" <>
Subject: Tassie Pulp Mill
From: "Rosemary Royle" <>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:05:12 +0100
"The debate about whether or not it was in Australia's best long-term
interest to cut down trees and turn them into low-value pulp never got
a guernsey."

>From the other side of the world it seems difficult to believe, in fact it 
>seems almost criminal, that it is still possible to build a pulp mill and feed 
>it with native forest in a country like Australia.

I know the UK is not a good example - we chopped our forests down hundreds of 
years ago for ships, houses and charcoal. But most wood pulp in Europe now 
comes from managed forests in Scandinavia.

Rosemary Royle, Wales, UK








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