2009

• Concern over plantations swept under the carpet by environmental movement

2008

• Australia/Tasmania: Deal favours Gunns’ pulp mill project despite popular opposition

2007

• The many subsidies enjoyed by Gunns in Tasmania
• Pulping democracy
• Tasmania shows the way to ban tree plantations

2006

• AFS certification scheme denounced by NGOs
• Certified monoculture tree plantations challenged for aerial spraying and loss of biodiversity

2005

• Nippon Paper in south eastern Australia
• Health in Tasmania gravely affected by pesticide use in tree monocultures
• Nippon paper to go green in Tasmania and elsewhere?
• Gunns plans massive new pulp mill in Tasmania

2004

• Strong allegation against destructive monoculture tree farms

2003

• A testimony of the loss of forests to Eucalyptus plantations and much more
• Certified Forests - the end to Forest Conflict?

2002

• Tasmanian farms which fed people replaced by farms which feed woodchip mills
• Tree plantations grabbing thriving forests
• Joint Submission against tree plantation scheme in Tasmania

2001

• Australian carbon sinks: good for investors, bad for the environment
• Vietnam: carbon sink plantations to avoid emission reductions in Australia

2000

• Woodchipping old growth forests for "renewable energy"
• Plantations, plantations and still more plantations...
• "Carbon sink" plantations invade Tasmania
• National Forest Summit condemns "Australian forestry standard"
• Papua New Guinea: From Australia with cyanide

1999

• Networking in action: Australia-Uruguay
• Australian NGOs do not support Minister Tuckey's intiatitive
• Japanese carbon garbage dumps in Australia
• US multinationals buy up Australian plantations at the expense of native forests
• Communities in Tasmania are up in arms against plantations
• Nicaragua: Australian gold mining company in the rainforest

1998

• Growing concern over plantations in Australia
• The truth about Rio Tinto

1997

• Eucalyptus natural forests under threat

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Environmental Problems. Georges Bay, Tasmania
Collated by Dr Marcus Scammell from information gathered, in particular, between February 2004 to June 2004.

Wynyard Residents Submission on the Plantations 2020 'Vision'
Joint Submission, January 2002

Action Alert:
Urgent Action For Australia's Forests (August 2000)

LINKS

Forest Network
http://www.jeack.com.au/%7Emartdy/ 

Native Forest Network
http://nfn.org.au/

Friends of the Earth Australia
http://www.foe.org.au/

Greenpeace Pacific campaign
http://www.greenpeace.org.au/forests/index.html

The Forest Letter Watch
http://www.lexicon.net/peterc/

Tarkine National Coalition
http://www.tarkine.org/

Tasforests
http://www.tasforests.green.net.au

The Mining Campaign
Australia-based mining companies working overseas
http://www.caa.org.au/campaigns/mining/index.html

Hancock Watch
http://www.hancock.forests.org.au

EconoSpeak
http://econospeak.blogspot.com/