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Southern tasmania is home to the tallest hardwood trees in the world!!!Cable loggers are used where the slope is too steep to work...Building house's in the rain forest... in an exclution zone... IS FUN!!! Come and viset the amazing Florentine valley b4 it's gone... to loggers... and stay in the wonderfull (5 star) Floz house...So... 3rd March comes and goes and Camp Florentine is still strong... 10 - 20 people actively working to protect their valley home from the intustrial logging opperations in the nearby rain forest. So Christams was busy, jolly and very festive... with around 40 people on camp... there was a present ceremony, with gifts kindy donated by the local tip shop in Hobart... Thanks u guys... The main summer events have been Guns and Dozzers... Lose u'r Excluxion tour... A week of continuous actions against working logging coupes in oldgrwth areas... The Upper Florentine Festival - A DIY Carnival... went down a storm, raised us enough money to buy some well needed tools, and provided a well needed exsuce for us all to let our hair down! And now the focus on camp is building a winter house, b4 the weather turns... More soon from Camp florentine... Also check the stillwild still threatened my spaceBack in Tassie's ancient forests!!!! Ahhh But the destruction continues... While I have been away , for 10 months in the uk the logging gaints Gunn's Ltd with the help of Forestry Tasmania have cleared vast tracks of land, burning the clearfelled coupes, and the lush, primeval rain forest turned into Eucalyptus mono-culture for the rest of our live-times and way behond... For a cash crop for low grade paper. The wood chips are currentley exported to Japan for paper production, while a small amount is turned into veneer chip board in highley polluting plants. A wood fired power station is also planned as well as a new gaint pulp mill set to consume i think it's 1.5 million tonnes of wood chips per year! See pic's/vidssection - new Tas album for the lastest picy's... Also viset www.coolforests.org for more new infoThese amazing pieces of art have been donated to the cause... so if you want them, make us sensible offers ASAP here by message... Funds raised go to flying climbers and film makers there ASAP... £6000+ for the scorpion... covers delivery and erection... £3000 + for the gateway... ..AUSTRAILIA IS STILL LOGING IT'S 'OLD GROWTH' VIRGIN RAIN FOREST FOR LOW GRADE PAPER PRODUCTION AND SOON FOR BURNING IN A WOOD-FIRED POWER STATION TO BE SITUATED IN THE WELD VALLEY, ON THE EDGE OF SOME OF THE LAST REMAINING RAINFOREST LEFT IN AUSTRALIA... THE VOLUME OF WOOD CHIP EXPORTED BY TASMANIA IS MORE THAN DOUBLE THAT EXPORTED BY THE WHOLE OF THE REST OF AUSTRAILIA!!! APPARENTLY EASTER ISLAND WASN'T ENOUGH OF A WARNING TO US! THIS NEEDS TO BE STOPPED!!! WRITE TO THE PRIMINISTER OF AUS...Jonh HowardThe Hon John Howard MP Prime Minister Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600Everything posted here is footage made by us or friends of ours ... mostly a bloke called Dave in mitigating circumstances... and are from environmental campaigns we've taken an active part in... we're not ashamed to stand up and say that we think these things need to be stopped, and we need help and backing to keep doing the things we do... So if you're circumstances don't allow you to get up on the front line and protest day in day out... fund an activist and know your money's going to the right place... instead of sitting in the bank creating interest for the IMF... Videos like these aren't cheep to make...The latest Tas vids - 07Direct Action in the upper Florentine Tasmania 07

Previous No Alternative gigsAnti-logging direct action - Camp Florentine... Tasmania 07Remember folks, as u'r snuggling up nice and cosy in u'r beds tonite, that theres a hand full of people around the world sleeping up trees in remote corners of the furthest flung wildernesses... spending their lives defending the last small specks of rain forests left on this planet!!! These trees are our lungs... GET INVOLVED NOW!!! HELP IN ANY WAY U CAN!!! And to all u D.A. kids out there... sweet dreams...Activist atop a Cable loggertaxas talk