KEY OLD GROWTH SAVED IN TASMANIA BUT THE FIGHT CONTINUES

In November, 2003, Greenpeace launched the Global Rescue Station in the Styx Valley of Tasmania, Australia to protect the world's tallest hardwood tree and the forest biodiversity.

Greenpeace activists, including Sakyo Noda, sit-in at the Global Rescue Station for five months called on - international markets to take actions to protect the Tasmanian Old-growth forests.

After the pressure and actions, recently the Australian Government has agreed to protection for some of the world's tallest hardwoods, the giant "Eucalyptus Regnans." Without the work of Greenpeace and other organizations, these trees were all marked for being cut.

However, old growth logging in the state has not been phased yet and will continue at the rate of 2600 hectares per year. There is still more that remains to be done.

It is still important for customers, in the international market place, to know that the fight to protect the old growth forests of Tasmania is not over yet despite the Australian Government's announcement. Gunns Pty Ltd is the woodchip company responsible for the destruction of old growth forests in Tasmania and it exports the majority of its woodchips to Japanese paper companies.

Please help us save these precious areas by sending your messages to two paper manufacuturing companies in Japan to asking them not to buy any woodchips from Gunns sourced from old growth forests.

In June, 2005, Mitsubishi Paper Mills, which was a buyer of Gunns, has informed Greenpeace that their new policy is to buy only woodchips "sourced from plantations or second growth forests of environmentally benign, and reclaimed wood." This is a major victory for anyone who doesn't want Tasmania's magnificent, ancient forests reduced to woodchips and pulp. See the detail.

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