Media Release 14 October 2016
Bob Brown is keen for a full and frank discussion with Guy Barnett about the damage to Tasmania's global reputation extending clear-fell logging into 400,000 hectares of Tasmania's ancient forests will cause.
"It's a no-brainer", Brown said today. "If the Hodgman government was putting $7 million into facilities for a world-class tourism experience into the Styx Valley of the Giants instead of getting more loggers back into destruction of our forests, it would be taxpayers money well spent".
“Guy is a bushwalker and loves the wilderness - just like thousands of visitors to Tasmania. I'll bet he doesn't head to fire-charred clear-fell areas for his Sunday walks. I am hugely proud of Tasmania - it is a World Heritage Island. Cutting down and burning the habitat of the wildlife that helps make our island world famous is studied ignorance in this day and age", Brown said.
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Facebook TwitterWe also rob ourselves and all others of a basic human right to experience the truly big picture of nature. The balance, inner satisfaction and profound joy that comes with just being in the wild close to nature. This is the inheritance and a birthright we MUST leave for our ourselves, our children and their children. All the money in the world is no substitute for the satisfying happiness of a life lived close to nature.