Please help save the 500 year old trees

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500 year old giant trees to die for Japanese paper mills

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The 'secret giants' of the Styx Valley are the tallest trees in Australia

and the tallest flowering plants on the planet.

 

Called Eucalyptus regnans - they are second only in height to the famous

coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempivirens) of California.

 

A 60 Minutes report (19/11/2000) on the logging of old growth forest in

Tasmania

showed the Styx Valley - Valley of the Giants - is threatened by logging

and woodchipping NOW.

 

The animals living amongst these forests will lose their homes.

 

These magnificent trees are destined to become woodchips for Japanese paper

mills!

 

See these incredible ancient giants - some of them 500 years old or more at

The Wilderness Society - Tasmania website.

http://www.wilderness.org.au/home/tasmania.html

 

Also visit - Boycott woodchipping

http://www.green.net.au/boycott/bwchome.htm

 

Please write to the Tasmanian Government and tell them the Valley of the

Giants

(Styx Valley) is worth more in tourist dollars than a short term gain in

woodchips.

 

The Tasmanian Government plans to replace this splendid piece of natural

heritage with plantation timber.

 

They will preserve a small piece of the forest as a reminder of what it

looked like.

 

This is not good enough.

 

Write to the Premier of Tasmania, (the Premier of Tasmania is the head of

the State Government of Tasmania, Australia ) and demand that the last of

the old growth forest

be saved from logging.

 

Premier Jim Bacon,

The Premier's Office,

Department of Premier and Cabinet

11th Floor,

15 Murray St,

Hobart

Tasmania,

Australia

 

or

 

Premier Jim Bacon,

Tasmanian Government,

GPO Box 123B

Hobart Tasmania 7001

AUSTRALIA

 

E-mail: Premier

Phone: +61 3 6233 3464

Fax: + 61 3 6234 1572