Deforestation...

Unforgiven wrote on Jul 16^th, 2015 at 12:47am:


that's right...

and this is where the Greens Party has lost its way..

they are chasing the pot of Gold at the end of the Rainbow of the Global Warming Lie....

fighting against deforestations they only ever got scraps...

the very Mention of GW and they got showered with Billions... they have sold out along with scientists and are a huge problem in the race to the bottom of the barrel.. 

I'm sure green-wins will argue its Abbott.

Steampipe wrote on Jul 17^th, 2015 at 6:34pm:



I was going to say fear. Yet abbott fits that in the way he tried to increase fear levels through chest beating and squealing terrorists are under your bed.

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Jul 17^th, 2015 at 6:49pm:



Reforesting ... what he plants trees during his sandpit break.

Abbott has just included natural forest burning in the RET.
Due to price pressures, this will mean deforesting old growth forests.

And abbott is your pin up boy.

Abbott government to cut 74,000 ha of forest from World Heritage zone
January 31, 2014

The federal government will ask UNESCO's World Heritage Committee to strip the Tasmanian World Heritage Wilderness Area of 74,000 hectares of highly contentious forest.
The area, believed to be up to 117 parcels, was part of a 170,000 hectare extension to the World Heritage Area by the committee last June.
It was nominated through an exhaustively argued Tasmanian forest peace deal.
The first large-scale wind-back of World Heritage ever sought by an Australian government, it fulfils an election promise by Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
It is the latest in a series of contentious federal environmental moves, from carbon tax repeal to a go-ahead for Great Barrier Reef Marine Park dredging.
The Tasmanian Senator Richard Colbeck, Parliamentary Secretary to the Agriculture Minister, delivered the news by statement on Friday.
Senator Colbeck said it would deliver additional economic and social outcomes, while maintaining the values of the wilderness.
"This minor boundary modification will restore value to the original Wilderness World Heritage Area listing by removing areas that have been impacted by forestry operations and devalue the existing Outstanding Universal Value," he said.
"In total we are seeking the removal of about 74,000 hectares or just 4.7 per cent of the entire property."
He said high value tall forests and giant trees in the Weld-Snowy Range, Huon-Picton, the Great Western Tiers and the Styx-Tyenna regions would be retained.
It was not immediately clear whether the most bitterly fought forests in the Florentine, Butler's Gorge and upper Styx and upper Weld would be re-opened to logging.
"The minor boundary modification includes removal of a number of areas containing pine and exotic eucalypt plantations as well as areas that have previously have been impacted by forestry operations and other infrastructure," Senator Colbeck said.
The Tasmanian Greens leader, Nick McKim, said the decision would plunge the state back into conflict by seeking to open up World Heritage areas for logging.
The federal government's proposed change has to be lodged with the World Heritage Committee by February 1 in order to go forward at its next meeting in June, in Doha, Qatar.
Until the proposed boundary modification is agreed to by the World Heritage Committee the current boundary for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Areas remains in place and continues to be protected under national environment law and is subject to its current legal protection and management practices.

Tony Abbott says too much Tasmanian forest 'locked up', forms new council to support timber industry
Updated 5 Mar 2014, 7:30pm

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declared that too many of Australia's forests are "locked up" and vowed to set up a new advisory council to support the timber industry.

Speaking at a timber industry dinner in Canberra last night, Mr Abbott also recommitted to repealing part of Tasmania's Wilderness World Heritage Area made under the forest peace deal.

His comments have prompted anger from conservationists and the Greens, who have labelled him the "dig it up, cut it down Prime Minister".

Under the Tasmanian peace deal, 170,000 hectares of forest was added to the World Heritage area.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-05/abbott-timber-industry-dinner-forestry-cou...

When I was in Tasmania last I wondered about the old growth forests in awe, animals scurrying about the forest floor, the wonderful moss and lichens, trees of massive girth thousands of years old, the peace, the tranquility, the silence and I thought to myself f#ck you could have some fun in here with a chainsaw.