Use these concepts when you write or talk to politicians, the media and friends on radio or at clubs or meetings: (Links to contacts below)
Demand that
- Unsustainable wood supply agreements cease immediately; federal government must buy them out
- Forests NSW stop the conversion of native forests into monoculture plantations NOW
- Forests NSW stop misrepresenting its practices as sustainable as this is FALSE
- Native forests be preserved intact as the most effective carbon sink
- Industrialised logging to cease immediately
- When the forests recover, highly trained people, not machines need to harvest in a way that is truly sustainable
- all NSW wildlife be deemed sacrosanct and its habitat protected immediately – no more destruction of the homes of rare creatures and no more destruction of the forest habitat that is home to creatures which need it so they don't become extinct
- Forests NSW be liable for weed invasion it is now causing across the state as it allows industrialised logging to expose thousands of hectares to bare earth ripe for weed invasion
- Politicians addresss the mockery and outrageous waste of taxpayers money allowing one government dept, (Forestry) to sabotage the attemps of all others to control the weed epidemic
SAY TO POLITICIANS
- I will not support you in any future election if you demonstrate ignorance of, or allow the continuation of industrialised style logging in NSW in 2011 - for any longer and it will be too late - Tell the politician their help then will be AFTER THE FACT AND TOO LATE
- I will not be tricked by carbon offset schemes that try to make out that MONOCULTURE plantations are the green alternative
- I want real investment in the wide array of alternative building and manufacturing products that can be derived by growing a vast array of alternative crops on degraded or weed infested land
- I do not want native forests cleared for monoculture plantations
- I want the preservation of our mixed stands of forests as a resource for the future to be harvested by people trained in ecology, not by giant machines destroying landscapes
Send the thoughts above to any politician listed on the essential list and then as many state and federal politicians that you can.
Subject: Outrage at the destruction of Australia’s native forests I am incensed at the wholesale slaughter of NSW Native Forests due to the wood supply agreement with BORAL. I want this reviewed NOW and the license revoked. We must not supply more wood than can be harvested sustainably.
In combination with the threat from feral animals, weeds, road kill and development, and the impact of industrialised logging and the virtual clear fell that it involves, slaughter is occurring on a grand scale. Words cannot convey the barbarity and absurdity of this situation in a part of this planet now identified as at the centre of the sixth greatest extinction crisis the planet has known and in a world facing unknown impacts from climate change.
Are you aware?
- of the lack of scientific and independent supervision of forestry operations. Government officials are not supervising logging contractors alone in these precious areas housing our last wildlife.
- that the virtual ‘clear fell’ that goes under phrases such as ‘Australian Group Selection’ or heavy single tree selection is modifying our native forests out of recognition and replacing them with weed infested wastelands...leaving weed problems that we will never be able to control
- that our community third party rights to prosecute breaches due to ill conceived laws have been taken away? while those reaping the benefits continue with impunity to destroy what others are battling to save...that a multinational is profiting from the destruction of Australian wildlife
I have seen the damage done to our forests from Google Earth aerial photography and I realise we are in the midst of a barbaric regime.
Our native forests will not withstand this final onslaught and I condemn it.
I would like a response outlining what you would do to stop this if you are elected
SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO THOSE ON THE ESSENTIAL LIST (pdf version) and
to your STATE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT and to
RING TALK BACK RADIO, SEND PRESS RELEASES TO ANY PAPER OR TELEVISION SEE THESE LINKS
Newspapers -
National http:mediabay.com.au/newspapers/list.php?main_category=32
Regional newspapers- http://www.mediabay.com.au/newspapers/list.php?main_category=34
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Radio Stations -
nationally – ring for this topic to be covered.
for other stations – nationally, regionally, locally - http://www.mediabay.com.au/radio/radio.php
Television -
http://www.mediabay.com.au/television/television.php