04/05/2024
These images were taken by of a Giant Tree burnt by Forestry Tasmania, trading as Sustainable Timbers Tasmania, in what they try to greenwash as 'logging regeneration' burns.
These images show the futility of the giant tree policy, as when you log and burn the forest ecosystems that our giant trees need to survive, its locking in the end for these forest sentinels. Either from fire or from exposure to the elements when they're left alone battling heat, storms, and an increasingly drying climate.
This giant was a wildlife habitat tree in southern Tasmania’s Swift Parrot breeding forests, which was burnt by Forestry Tasmania. The government logging agency claims they have environmental protections for eucalyptus regnan, the world's tallest flowering plants, and wildlife habitat. When, in reality, they set fire to their own prescriptions with their biased self-regulating logging and burning.
This is then the same fate that our last remaining large eucalyptus regnan trees in Krushka's - that were not logged - face, as Forestry Tasmania plan to burn Krushka's CC119A any day now. Big Foot and our other eucalyptus regnans will likely not survive these fires.
The flattening, burning, and destruction of Tasmania’s globally unique and precious forests, including the world’s tallest flowering plants, must stop. Tasmania’s government continues to light these fires deliberately.
This tree appears to have lost all its top canopy, and that will make its recovery very difficult. These old trees evolved in biodiverse cool wet forests. They can not thrive in chared, cleared logging coupes
It's time to end native forest logging. Our forests are worth more standing.
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