The Coalition has followed through on one of its election commitments to seek a reversal of world heritage listing on part of the Tasmanian world heritage wilderness area, despite opposition from environmental advocates, logging groups and the state government.
And if Tasmania again starts logging timber in what is now a World Heritage-listed area?
The aim of the research was to determine the scale and forms of logging road impacts on the natural environment and residual cultural heritage of Ruthenian Highlanders that characterise the Polish part of the north-eastern Carpathians.
Luc Bas, the director of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) which advises the Unesco world heritage committee said that the organisation was receiving "a lot of worrying information" about logging activity in Białowieża.
We would advise that, as a precautionary approach, logging should not be proceeding in the Białowieża forest until there has been an assessment of its implications for its world heritage status," he said.
Poland has started logging in the ancient Białowieża forest, which includes some of Europe's last primeval woodland, despite fierce protests from environmental groups battling to save the world heritage site.
The Greens leader, Christine Milne, said it would "shock Australians to see the lengths that the Abbott government will go to to cover the fact that they intend to log forests listed as world heritage areas".
ALMOST LOGGED Heritage Grove was almost logged in 1974, but was saved when Grace Anne Radwell, who lived in a semi-primitive cabin on nearby Alpine Road, waged a campaign to save it.
To ensure the bags reflect Cartier's design heritage, Marlin Yuson, accessories creative director, logged hours in the archives in Paris and Geneva looking at Cartier pieces the design house had bought back at auction.
But why should we lock up, as some kind of world heritage sanctuary, country which has been logged, degraded or planted for timber?
