But when the green groups compromised, allowing limited native forest logging, Webber balked.
She was a Fulbright scholar in Libreville, Gabon, studying the impact of rain forest logging on rural communities.
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Australian Greens Senator Nick McKim said this was "a casualty of the Liberals' ideological fixation with native forest logging" at taxpayers' expense: "This is a spectacular public policy failure".
Finally, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller tempt us into eavesdropping on a murder committed in some faraway forest log cabin – by listening, we become inextricably implicated.
"Every year, more and home homes have been built in the forest, logging in the area is dramatically less than it ever was, and the forest is extremely overgrown".
Jenny Weber, campaigner at the Bob Brown Foundation, said, "Tasmania's government has issued a licence for native forest annihilation in an era when native forest logging should cease, for climate mitigation and ecosystem benefits.
Greg Barber, the leader of the Victorian Greens, said: "The policy contains nothing on coal, nothing on coal seam gas, nothing on forest logging and nothing on a Victorian renewable energy target.
The upgraded threatened status of the swift parrot to critically endangered has been said to reflect the Tasmanian government's failure to protect crucial habitat from native forest logging.
