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	<title>Forest Policy Research &#187; Australia</title>
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		<title>Australia: Redgum eco-review says it&#8217;s ok to keep ruining</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/02/australia-environment-review-says-its-ok-to-keep-ruing-the-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/02/australia-environment-review-says-its-ok-to-keep-ruing-the-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>
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An environmental impact statement (EIS) on redgum logging in southern New South Wales recommends the practice continue. Green groups are critical of the EIS, which will be assessed by Forests New South Wales &#8211; not the state planning department. Activists are in the Millewa Forest near Deniliquin this week seeking to stop harvesting in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: 22 arrests as 300 rally for mother&#8217;s day defense of 	ancient forests</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/10/australia-22-arrests-as-300-rally-for-mothers-day-defense-of-ancient-forests/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/10/australia-22-arrests-as-300-rally-for-mothers-day-defense-of-ancient-forests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 06:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber industry decline]]></category>
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300 people attended the rally at the start of the controversial new logging road. A diverse range of people were arrested including veteran forest campaigner Geoff Law, a local woman in her seventies from Westerway and a 17 year old male. 
 Photo: Matthew Newton http://www.matthewnewton.com.au
Speakers including Tim Morris MP, Geoff Law, and acclaimed photographer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Surprised logging last Native Forests in NSW is 	unsustainable?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/06/australia-surprised-logging-the-last-native-forest-in-nsw-is-unsustainable/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/06/australia-surprised-logging-the-last-native-forest-in-nsw-is-unsustainable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 21:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fake sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber industry decline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A report by the NSW Auditor General, Peter Achterstraat, has found that logging practices in northern NSW native forests are unsustainable and unprofitable. “The native forests managed by Forests NSW on the North Coast are being cut faster than they are growing back. This will eventually result in a reduction in the available timber,” Mr [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Recent Direct Action forest defense in Upper 	Florentine</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/05/australia-recent-direct-action-action-forest-defense-in-upper-florentine/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/05/australia-recent-direct-action-action-forest-defense-in-upper-florentine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the most recent previous article about this campaign go here: http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/02/australia-forest-defender-set-on-fire-by-cops/ 
60 Police have raided camp Florentine this morning to remove road blockades so that logging of the contentious area can begin. An Exclusion Zone has been declared by Forestry Tasmania, to prevent public access to the area. A Hobart man has already been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Forest Defender set on fire by cops!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/02/australia-forest-defender-set-on-fire-by-cops/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/02/australia-forest-defender-set-on-fire-by-cops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 19:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extinc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber industry decline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ms Gavio said: &#34;When they were cutting just behind my head, they cut the fuel line underneath the car and the sparks from the angle grinder must have started the fire behind me. They tried to extinguish the fire but it got bigger just behind me and I saw a large flame that came over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: 500 year old forest destruction on a daily basis in East 	Gippsland is confirmed</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/04/01/australia-500-year-old-forest-destruction-on-a-daily-basis-in-east-gippsland-is-confirmed/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/04/01/australia-500-year-old-forest-destruction-on-a-daily-basis-in-east-gippsland-is-confirmed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data gathering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survivor trees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since 1992, sometimes&#8230; when I&#8217;ve come across a recently fallen elder tree, I pay my respects to that tree by counting each ring of its life. Enviros and loggers alike can make the effort once in a while, to take the time, to have the patience&#8230; The patience to relive each year of life that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Logging of once protected College creek forest has begun 	in Strzelecki Ranges</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/29/australia-logging-of-once-protected-college-creek-forest-has-begun-in-strzelecki-ranges/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/29/australia-logging-of-once-protected-college-creek-forest-has-begun-in-strzelecki-ranges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest corridors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local control of resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Logging started in College Creek catchment in the Strzelecki Ranges six days after the Black Saturday fires devastated vast tracts on the hills that rise at the southern end of the Latrobe Valley. College Creek was one of five environmentally significant core areas declared off limits to logging by then environment minister John Thwaites in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: More on Citizen effort to save Chester forest</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/29/australia-more-on-citizen-effort-to-save-chester-forest-near-augusta/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/29/australia-more-on-citizen-effort-to-save-chester-forest-near-augusta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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Forest activist Yvette Jennings, who is trying to save Chester forest near Augusta from logging, said she was saddened to see the destruction at Warren 6. Logging has begun in one of the most hotly contested sections of South-West karri forest almost eight years after Labor promised to put an end to cutting down old-growth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Tasmanian greens still battling the last of the 	native forest destroyers</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/27/australia-tasmanian-greens-still-still-battling-the-last-of-the-native-forest-destroyers/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/27/australia-tasmanian-greens-still-still-battling-the-last-of-the-native-forest-destroyers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tasmanian Greens today called on Premier David Bartlett to acknowledge the clear link between Labor’s destructive forestry policy and the increasing number of threatened species in Tasmania, and to take action to separate the management of threatened species from the implementation of Labor forest policy.
Get full text; Support da&#8217; word producer:
http://tas.greens.org.au/News/view_MR.php?ActionID=3611

All tree news about Australia:
http://forestpolicyresearch.org/category/oceania-tree-news/australia/
Greens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Climate diplomacy repercussions of corrupt Aussie 	politicians laying waste to Tiwi Island</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/27/australia-climate-diplomacy-repercussions-of-corrupt-aussie-politicians-laying-waste-to-tiwi-island/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/27/australia-climate-diplomacy-repercussions-of-corrupt-aussie-politicians-laying-waste-to-tiwi-island/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate policy forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This issue was recently covered here:
http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/australia-aussie-greens-demand-to-know-details-of-logging-and-mining-on-tiwi-islands/
Tiwi Islanders have missed out on potentially millions of dollars from carbon trading, an expert from Charles Darwin University says. The director of the university&#8217;s School for Environmental Research, Professor Stephen Garnett, has written a paper on carbon trading opportunities on the Tiwis. Professor Garnett says the Tiwi forests that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Direct action shuts down logging of last old growth forest 	along Delegate River, E. Gippsland</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/australia-direct-action-shuts-down-logging-of-last-old-growth-forest-along-delegate-river-e-gippsland/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/australia-direct-action-shuts-down-logging-of-last-old-growth-forest-along-delegate-river-e-gippsland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem decline]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[illegal logging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning a group of 20 forest conservationists are preventing the
clearfelling of one of the last stands of old growth forest in the
upper Delegate River catchment in East Gippsland. Members of the group
have prevented six logging machines from working using a complicated
series of tripod structures, cables and a tree platform. “This
particular old growth forest was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: One arrest in direct action against political leaders who 	destroyed Chester forest</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/australia-one-arrest-in-direct-action-against-political-leaders-who-destroyed-chester-forest/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/australia-one-arrest-in-direct-action-against-political-leaders-who-destroyed-chester-forest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today at 8am a protester unhappy with the Forest Products Commission&#8217;s  logging of WA&#8217;s Native forests locked on at FPC headquarters in Perth.  A 30 year old man was arrested. The activist was jumped upon by a WA  Police officer while locked on to the vehicle.

Activists say the  officer was upset [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Gov forestry yet again caught logging in direct 	contravention of species protection</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/australia-gov-forestry-yet-again-caught-logging-in-direct-contravention-of-species-protection/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/australia-gov-forestry-yet-again-caught-logging-in-direct-contravention-of-species-protection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tasmanian Greens today welcomed Threatened Species Minister David Llewellyn’s commitment to Parliament to look into the reasons why Forestry Tasmania has logged a coupe on South Bruny Island in direct contravention of expert advice from the Threatened Species Section that the coupe should be preserved from logging as potential breeding habitat for the Swift Parrot.
Get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: A very high level of illegal clearing that the Minister is 	powerless to stop?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/22/australia-a-very-high-level-of-illegal-clearing-that-the-minister-is-powerless-to-stop/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/22/australia-a-very-high-level-of-illegal-clearing-that-the-minister-is-powerless-to-stop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate policy forest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
A Senate committee last week, as well as research contained in a forthcoming book, have concluded that the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity (EPBC) Act has significant gaps in its powers. Since the law was introduced under the Howard government in 1999, successive federal governments have used the law to refuse approval to just nine projects, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Stop Tasmanian Devil extinction, Save Tarkine from 	eco-tourism road</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/19/australia-stop-tasmanian-devil-extinction-save-tarkine-from-eco-tourism-road/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/19/australia-stop-tasmanian-devil-extinction-save-tarkine-from-eco-tourism-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A controversial road proposed for Tasmania&#8217;s north-west will need toclear Federal environment laws before it can go ahead. Forestry Tasmania is appointing consultants to check that its Tarkine loop road proposal meets federal standards. It is understood Forestry had been considering classifying the wilderness road as a logging route instead of a tourist road, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: More on Gunns Ltd. giving up and giving 1/4 million 	dollars to Wilderness Society</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/18/australia-more-on-gunns-ltd-giving-up-and-giving-14-million-dollars-to-wilderness-society/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/18/australia-more-on-gunns-ltd-giving-up-and-giving-14-million-dollars-to-wilderness-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawsuit settled]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/18/australia-more-on-gunns-ltd-giving-up-and-giving-14-million-dollars-to-wilderness-society/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On 30th December 2008 Victorian Premier John Brumby committed to  protecting Victoria&#8217;s Red Gum forests and wetlands along the Murray and its tributaries in 95,000 hectares of new and expanded national parks. The win means an end to cattle grazing in these forests, a significant reduction in logging, and the historic first for Victoria of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Big timber (Gunns Ltd.) fails in 4-year attempt to sue 	enviro protesters for millions</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/australia-big-timber-gunns-ltd-fails-in-4-year-attempt-to-sue-enviro-protesters-for-millions/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/australia-big-timber-gunns-ltd-fails-in-4-year-attempt-to-sue-enviro-protesters-for-millions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawsuit settled]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SLAPP suit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2004, Gunns sued the Wilderness Society and others
alleging it had suffered loss after protesters trespassed on Gunns
land and damaged forest machinery. The claim by Gunns Ltd. against the
Wilderness Society has collapsed after four years, with the timber
giant ordered to pay the society $350,000 in legal costs.

The Wilderness Society is free to continue protesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Significant woodlands with endangered birds in Canberra to be ruined for more power lines</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/australia-significant-woodlands-with-endangered-birds-in-canberras-to-be-ruined-for-more-power-lines/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/australia-significant-woodlands-with-endangered-birds-in-canberras-to-be-ruined-for-more-power-lines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consequences of clearcut logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation priorities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land clearing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poorly planned development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Nationally significant woodlands harboring endangered birds in
Canberra&#8217;s south will be cleared to make way for more industrial land
and a more secure electricity network. ActewAGL proposes a 15km-long
route through old trees with habitat hollows to establish a second
bulk power source, critical for energy-hungry enterprises such as data
centres. The Commonwealth&#8217;s Department of Environment, Heritage and
Arts says the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Aussie Greens demand to know details of logging and mining 	on Tiwi islands</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/australia-aussie-greens-demand-to-know-details-of-logging-and-mining-on-tiwi-islands/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/australia-aussie-greens-demand-to-know-details-of-logging-and-mining-on-tiwi-islands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/australia-aussie-greens-demand-to-know-details-of-logging-and-mining-on-tiwi-islands/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Greens Senator Rachael Siewert has rejected concerns a Senate inquiry into mining and forestry operations on the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory is a waste of time or money. Senator Siewert says the Greens have concerns about the transparency of forestry operations on the islands. &#8220;There&#8217;s been ongoing concerns about the extent of logging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: 15 activists shutdown logging coupe on Waterfall Creek 	road</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/15/australia-15-activists-shutdown-logging-coupe-on-waterfall-creek-road/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/15/australia-15-activists-shutdown-logging-coupe-on-waterfall-creek-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Police have been called to disband a forest protest in the Styx Valley
in southern Tasmania. A group of about 15 activists entered a coupe on
Waterfall Creek road early this morning, disrupting logging
operations.

Christo Mills from the group Still Wild Still Threatened
says the area is home to untouched old growth forests and should be
protected.

He says it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Weld Valley defenders set up new camp to stop planned 	logging road</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/australia-weld-valley-defenders-set-up-new-camp-to-stop-planned-logging-road/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/australia-weld-valley-defenders-set-up-new-camp-to-stop-planned-logging-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/australia-weld-valley-defenders-set-up-new-camp-to-stop-planned-logging-road/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Forest activists have opened a camp in the Weld Valley in southern Tasmania, vowing to take whatever action is necessary to protect the area from a planned logging road. The Huon Valley Environment Centre says it&#8217;s built a tree sit at the camp to monitor the progress of a Forestry Tasmania road that may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Aboriginals to &#8216;benefit&#8217; from wood supply coming from 	stripping forest bare for Bauxite mine</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/australia-aboriginals-to-benefit-from-wood-supply-coming-from-stripping-forest-bare-for-bauxite-mine/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/australia-aboriginals-to-benefit-from-wood-supply-coming-from-stripping-forest-bare-for-bauxite-mine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/australia-aboriginals-to-benefit-from-wood-supply-coming-from-stripping-forest-bare-for-bauxite-mine/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditional owners have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a
logging company to harvest 850 hectares of timber in Arnhem land. The
Gumatj Corporation signed the deal with Forestry Tasmania today. The
Gumatj are traditional owners of land around the Gove Peninsula in
north east Arnhem land. Some of the timber will be used to build
houses for traditional owners.
Get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: $37 Million timber industry package encourages nepotism &amp; 	ecological destruction</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/australia-37-million-timber-industry-package-encourages-nepotism-ecological-destruction/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/australia-37-million-timber-industry-package-encourages-nepotism-ecological-destruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plantation destruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber industry decline]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/australia-37-million-timber-industry-package-encourages-nepotism-ecological-destruction/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Minister for Environment and Climate Change Carmel Tebbutt said the $37 million reform package is to assist the industry in adjusting to the Private Native Forestry (PNF) code of practice, which regulates forestry operations on private land. But North Coast Environment Council (NCEC) vice president Susie Russell claims the government must re-think its use of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Still Wild Still Threatened activists arrested shutting 	down Tasmanian logging</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/australia-still-wild-still-threatened-activists-arrested-shutting-down-tasmanian-logging/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/australia-still-wild-still-threatened-activists-arrested-shutting-down-tasmanian-logging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber industry decline]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/australia-still-wild-still-threatened-activists-arrested-shutting-down-tasmanian-logging/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Tasmanian police have been called to another forest protest in the
state&#8217;s south. The group, Still Wild Still Threatened, says it has
halted logging in a 54 hectare coupe. The group claims it is adjacent
to informal reserves connected to the World Heritage Area. Christo
Mills from Still Wild Still Threatened says 20 activists have walked
in the coupe to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: John Seed on Direct Action and Deep Ecology</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/04/australia-john-seed-on-direct-action-and-deep-ecology/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/04/australia-john-seed-on-direct-action-and-deep-ecology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deep ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protection culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trees as healing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I was living on Bodhi Farm at The Channon and thought I was going to
spend the rest of my life organising meditation retreats and growing
organic food when somehow I found myself involved in the direct action
at Terania Creek,” he said.
Get full text; support writer, producer of the words:
http://www.echonews.com/index.php?page=News%20Article&#38;article=25413&#38;issue=391

His passion for rainforests can be traced back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: State forest hiding how plantation logging funds Native 	forest logging</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/04/australia-state-forest-hiding-how-plantation-logging-funds-native-forest-logging/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/04/australia-state-forest-hiding-how-plantation-logging-funds-native-forest-logging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state lands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber industry decline]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/04/australia-state-forest-hiding-how-plantation-logging-funds-native-forest-logging/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New South Wales auditor-general has released a report analyzing
forestry operations across the state, including operations in the
south-east. Greens&#8217; MP Lee Rhiannon says accounting methods by the
state&#8217;s Forestry Commission have hindered a true examination of the
logging industry. Ms Rhiannon says the information provided by the
commission for the report hides how plantation activities are used to
subsidize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: FSC Certified Smartwood is corruptible unaccountable 	eco-damaging dumbwood</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/25/australia-fsc-certified-smartwood-is-corruptible-unaccountable-eco-damaging-dumbwood/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/25/australia-fsc-certified-smartwood-is-corruptible-unaccountable-eco-damaging-dumbwood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corrupt environmentalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenwashing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[They don't Support FSC]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/25/australia-fsc-certified-smartwood-is-corruptible-unaccountable-eco-damaging-dumbwood/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The reputation of FSC in Australia has been dealt another nasty blow with Smartwood&#8217;s 2008 audit of Hancock Victorian Plantations (HVP). It appears that Smartwood has chosen to ignore recommendations made by Accredited Services International (ASI) in August 2007 and has instead rehashed company biased propaganda.
Get full text; support writer, producer of the words:
http://www.fsc-watch.org/archives/2009/02/23/FSC__Hancock_and_Sma

(Photo of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Arresting &#8216;em for trespass on public land is a &#8220;blatant 	intrusion of politics&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/19/australia-arresting-em-for-trespass-on-public-land-is-a-blatant-intrusion-of-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/19/australia-arresting-em-for-trespass-on-public-land-is-a-blatant-intrusion-of-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Upper Florentine forest is owned by the people of Tasmania and it
is blatantly unjust to charge people with trespassing in their own
forests,&#8221; said Mr Booth. Greens Shadow Forests spokesperson Kim Booth
MP said it is disappointing that Tasmania Police now appear to be
adopting the forest industry strategy of taking legal action against
selective groups of high-profile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Report details how Japanese destroy ancient forests for 	paper</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/17/australia-report-details-how-japanese-destroy-ancient-forests-for-paper/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/17/australia-report-details-how-japanese-destroy-ancient-forests-for-paper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pulp issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new report released by Australian conservation groups The Wilderness
Society and Still Wild, Still Threatened shows that despite claims to
the contrary, Japanese paper manufacturers are the purchasers of wood
chips derived from the destruction of Tasmania&#8217;s old growth forests.
Get full text; support writer, producer of the words:
http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0215-tasmania.html

This revelation comes after a major scandal in Japan where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Road building for Eco-tourism will lead to Tasmanian Devil 	extinction</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/16/australia-road-building-for-eco-tourism-will-lead-to-tasmanian-devil-extinction/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/16/australia-road-building-for-eco-tourism-will-lead-to-tasmanian-devil-extinction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road as vector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tourist road to be built through Tasmania&#8217;s Tarkine wilderness is a
&#8220;death sentence&#8221; for the endangered Tasmanian devil, says a member of
the team dedicated to saving the species. Dr Colette Harmsen,
veterinary surgeon and field officer with the Tasmanian Government&#8217;s
Save the Devil Program, tonight told The Australian the road would
significantly hasten the spread of the devil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Illegal logging of too many rare Karri trees in Burnside 	Forest</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/13/australia-illegal-logging-of-too-many-rare-karri-trees-in-burnside-forest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conservationists say they are shocked that rare trees are being logged
in the Burnside Forest in south-west Western Australia. Almost 400
rare karri trees, home to the threatened red-tail and white-tail black
cockatoos, have been logged in the forest.
Get full text; support writer, producer of the words:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/13/2490678.htm?site=southwestwa

The Forest Products Commission is required to leave at least five primary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Blaming enviros for firestorm is absurd</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/australia-blaming-enviros-for-firestorm-is-absurd-and-dishonest/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/12/australia-blaming-enviros-for-firestorm-is-absurd-and-dishonest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildfire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There have been claims the bushfires were exacerbated by a lack of
pre-emptive burn-offs, and by too much forest being locked up in
reserves. But Peter Kanowski, professor of forestry at the Australian
National University, said this is an oversimplification. Prof
Kanowski&#8217;s main message was that in some areas, and under certain
weather conditions, there was a high risk of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Bermagui State Forest destruction resumes</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/04/australia-bermagui-state-forest-destruction-resumes/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/04/australia-bermagui-state-forest-destruction-resumes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state lands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[watershed planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Logging operations in the Bermagui State Forest resumed on Monday
after a break over the holiday period. Forests NSW southern regional
manager Ian Barnes said an exclusion area will again be implemented
over the two forest compartments being harvested, mainly for safety
reasons. &#8220;The exclusion zone would apply in the harvest area west of
Bermagui township,&#8221; he said.
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