Environmentalists have described yesterday’s detonation of more than 20 ‘regeneration burns’ in Tasmania’s forests as a day of horror for the Tasmanian wilds.
‘Hundreds of hectares are going up in fire storms deliberately set off by Forestry Tasmania to incinerate logged forest areas so that nothing is left alive,’ said Bob Brown.
‘This is archaic, ecocide and, besides killing so much directly, is the biggest producer of greenhouse gases in Tasmania, inevitably boosting global heating and the next round of worsening bushfire emergencies.
‘Far from lifting our clean, green image, this deliberated destruction of wild nature in Tasmania’s forests cuts right across our international reputation,’ said Bob Brown.
Incinerated
‘Nine hundred hectares of destroyed native forests have been shamefully incinerated by Premier Rockliff today, while five hundred more hectares of waste from plantation clearing is also alight,’ said Jenny Weber, Bob Brown Foundation’s Campaigns Director.
‘This continued dangerous, unnecessary and polluting practice of post-logging incineration must be banned.’
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