[Greens-Media] Brown calls on Turnbull to apply forest policy at home

[Cameron, Prue (Sen B. Brown)]

Monday 23 July  2007

Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown has called on the Federal Environment
Minister Malcolm Turnbull to apply his planned satellite watch for
clear-fell logging in Indonesia to southeast Australia.

"Mr Turnbull says 'it is no good' protecting one valley if loggers are
clearfelling the valley next door. Well, replace 'valley' with 'island'.
It is no good preventing clearfelling on Lombok if they are clearfelling
Tasmania," Senator Brown said.

"His satellite watch would have picked up the recent illegal
clearfelling of a forest reserve in the Arve valley of Tasmania. It
would pick up extensive ecological destruction in East Gippsland and
Tasmania. The minister has two standards. He would be better to follow
the lead of new Zealand where all clearfelling of oldgrowth forest has
stopped."



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