But surely plantations on farm land would be preferable to the loss of
existing forests?
Given our apparently insatiable desire for paper then a pulp mill is
needed somewhere - and I guess that having one in Aus where we have so
control over the environmental conditions is better than using one
overseas where we have no knowledge of what is happening - and also
better for our trade balance. I guess the logging will happen whether
we process the stuff here or export the raw wood chips!
On 08/10/2007, Ben Allen <> wrote:
>
> I am not well versed on the Tassie Pulp Mill issue and do not pretend to be
> well informed on the issue of pulp mills.
>
> However I do feel that I would prefer to see thousands of square miles of
> native forest harvested over cycles in excess of 100 years (as was practiced
> in WA) then to see the present preferred solution of tens of thousands of
> square kilometers of mono-specific, naturally sterile cultivated forest as we
> seem to have now.
>
> The very sad and painful loss of the old habitats, old trees and varied flora
> and fauna that was built up in the ecosystems of these old growth forests is
> in itself preferable to the destruction and harvesting of vast areas of
> planted and managed forests, with little disturbance to any bird life, fauna
> or other levels of activity because of the very lack of life in the
> mono-cultured environments.
>
> Obviously the ideal is to have no harvesting, but if that is not an economic
> reality then I personally would prefer to see the use of long cycle native
> forests with a managed harvesting system to promote diversity and species
> survival at every level. I am certainly not keen on the widespread use of
> cultivated mono-specific tree cropping which seems to be the present trend.
>
> Regards
>
> Ben
>
> from [Tony Russell (
> m("esc.net.au","pratincole");&idxname=birding-aus&sort=date:late">http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=+from:&idxname=birding-aus&sort=date:late
> )]
>
> To: "'Rosemary Royle'" <>, "'Evan Beaver'"
> <>, "'Birding-aus (E-mail)'" <>
> Subject: Tassie Pulp Mill
> From: "Tony Russell" <>
> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:21:00 +0930
>
> Maybe you've got a government with half a brain in its head Rosemary. Our
> governments are still suffering with the extractive mind set of the European
> rapists of a bygone era. Tony. -----Original Message----- From: Rosemary
> Royle Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:35 PM
> To: Evan Beaver; Tony Russell; Birding-aus (E-mail) Subject: Tassie Pulp Mill
> "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 factit 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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