‘National disgrace’: protest after tree estimated to be hundreds of years old cut down in Tasmania
www.theguardian.com
Sustainable Timber Tasmania said the giant tree pictured on the truck had been assessed and felled ‘for safety reasons’
  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netM
    3·
    1 year ago

    Always happy when people start talking about these things.

    The defense used for logging the tree raises questions. Whose safety was threatened by this tree? Wasn’t it in the middle of a forest?

    • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      And the lack of decay is another point.

      Considering the tree, judging by the photo, had escaped logging several times (surrounded by smaller regrowth), it is certainly an odd one.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Pictures of a massive, centuries-old tree on the back of a logging truck in Tasmania have sparked calls from environmentalists for Anthony Albanese to visit the area to see damage being inflicted on native forests.

    A community member on Sunday recorded images of the large tree, which filled the width of the truck, being taken from a logging coupe in the Florentine Valley.

    The Wilderness Society said citizen scientists surveyed the area earmarked for logging earlier this year and found another 49 trees more than 2 metres in diameter.

    The future of native forest logging is an issue of focus for the Labor party ahead of its national conference in Brisbane this week.

    She said the logging plan included a “prescription to minimise impact to live trees greater than 2 metres diameter at breast height where it is operationally safe to do so”.

    Alice Hardinge, a campaigner with the Wilderness Society, said citizen scientists working with the organisation found the forest in the coupe had high conservation values, including being prime habitat for hollow-tree dependent species such as the endangered masked owl.

    I’m a bot and I’m open source!