Severin

Good question: The title that I recommended was "Gunns capitulates to misinformation and corporate bullying"

The omission of the word 'corporate' from the published headline is important, as the article is only discussing the company's decision to exit native forests and the forcing of the company's direction in that context. I may try and get it reinstated now that you have pointed this out to me.

By all means post a few FACTS about Gunns, but perhaps you should read the article first before you go off-topic down the pulp mill path. Talk about the Gunns 20 court case perhaps, but remember that this was an attempt (admittedly poorly handled) to bring to account those wilfully engaged in spreading misinformation and damaging the company's reputation and bottom line.

There is much in the history of Gunns Ltd that will not bode well for their futures.
With a huge reliance upon Forestry Tasmania for logs for all its purposes, inc wood-chips, a lot of questionable actions were taking place.
There are now mighty inroads going into the Tarkine Forest area, this is via Forestry Tasmania harvesting Old Growth Forests, (or whatever new term is in vogue to describe this type of Ancient Wonderland Forest.
In my having revelled in the magnificent splendour of the Tarkine some 2 years ago, it can no longer be seen in that same wonderful light.
Yes there are still Logged products coming from this area and yes it to largely feed Gunns chip mills until the completed transition time is upon them.

A major concern to all this logging for Gunns, is that this is still carried out by this State's Forestry Arm of Forestry Tasmania, so they to must share in the ongoing displeasure as aimed at Gunns, for they are ever demanding to send off to Gunns all that of whatever remnants of Native Forest they still harvest, to send these logs off to Gunns at this current time, always to the beat of the Gunns drum.

Yet another example of the misinformation campaign against Tasmania’s forest sector is in the previous comment referring to an area known as the Tarkine that was added to the interim list of the National estate in 1992.

The National estate listed area is between the Arthur and Pieman rivers and extends from the coast to virtually the Murchison Highway and surrounds Tasmania’s largest open cut iron ore mine at Savage River. About one third of the area was granted as a forest concession to be the feedstock to Burnie’s pulp mill in 1926.

Because of the Regional Forest Agreement’s national estate assessment the area (now stated by the Commonwealth as 332,000 ha) was added to the Register of the National Estate (RNE) in 2002.

In addition to the existing Arthur Pieman Conservation Area, Savage River NP and other existing reserves were created by the RFA. The Savage River NP holds Australia’s largest contiguous area of temperate rainforest. The 2004 Federal election forest deal added more reserves totalling 73,512 hectares, resulting in formal reservation of about 308,000 hectares.

The RFA provided for continued timber harvesting for sawlog, special species and pulp wood outside these reserves that cover 87% of the National Estate area.

Areas outside this reserve system do not contain the same high conservation values. Most of these areas continue to be managed for timber production, as they have done for over a century, with over 40 small sawmills in the area by 1930.

Yet despite forestry and mining activity there is a proposal to expand the area by 35% to 447,606 ha, an area now emergency listed on the National Heritage list due to a tourist road proposed by the State Government. This ‘new’ 131 km tourist road has since been dropped by the green labour State Cabinet but was to have sealed existing forestry roads and bridge infrastructure, some additional access roads for tourist facilities, and new linking road of only 5.4 km.

The 308,000 ha of reserves ensures the “magnificent splendour’ of the Tarkine is not threatened by either tourist of ‘logging’ roads.