The Green Files > Pulping The World, Part 2: Gunn Ltd is Pulping Tasmania, Australia

[Sprol] You're looking at clear-cut logging of the oldest growth rainforest in the world. In Tasmania, the largest of the 600 species of Eucalyptus trees found in Australia, and some of the tallest standing hardwood trees in the world, are being felled.

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[Siglamag.com] Sigla Magazine :: ::: well, shite? Creative Paper, in Tasmania (digression: you know, for years and years I thought Tasmania was a country invented by Warner Bros just for their Bugs Bunny cartoon, and then one day I saw on an atlas that it really exists. Next thing you know, someone’ll be telling me that there really is such a bird as the road-runner) well Creative Paper have discovered that kangaroo poo is perfect for pulping into writing paper.

[Forests.org] 8/6/2004 -- AUSTRALIA: Guidelines on pulp mill `politicised': Ms Putt also said yesterday that the Government could not ignore the thousands of protesters who campaigned in mainland cities at the weekend over Tasmania's forestry practices.

[Marijuananews.com] MarijuanaNews.Com, Freedom has nothing to fear from the truth: Tasmania, Australia mercuryedletter@trump.net.au. May 4, 1998. By Eve Lamb ... "And the plant produces four times more pulping fibre per hectare than trees. ...

[Tasmaniantimes.com] Tasmanian Times: As you will be aware, this is the site of a significant French expedition in the late eighteenth century, prior to Tasmania (then van Diemen’s Land) being claimed by the British. The significance of this scientific expedition is mirrored in the geographical names of many places in Southern Tasmania to this day. Bruny Island, the d’Entrecasteaux Channel, and the Labillardière Peninsula (named after Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière, one of the naturalists on the expedition) are just three that honour the event.

[Planetizen.com] PLANETIZEN: Radar: Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, as one of their "environmental converts" to nuclear energy. Turns out the current head of Greenpeace Gerd Leipold isn't buying Dr. Moore's schtick, though, as demonstrated in a speech in Australia.

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