RAN’s new report, The Truth Behind Tasmanian Forest Destruction and the Japanese Paper Industry, details how Australian lumber giant Gunns Limited's egregious logging practices in Tasmania are supported by major paper companies in Japan, such as Nippon and Oji, which buy huge volumes of woodchips that come from Tasmania’s old growth and environmentally sensitive forests.
RAN Report exposes the truth
United Nations committee to investigate logging in Tasmania
This week the UN’s World Heritage Committee announced that it will investigate the impacts of Gunns' clearing and firebombing have on environmentally critical forests in Tasmania, an island state in Australia.
Tell Nippon Paper: Stop buying Tassie's old growth wood
Nippon Paper is the biggest buyer of Gunns’ old-growth woodchips, making the company the leading supporter of Gunns’ destruction of Tasmania’s ancient forests. If the company would simply stop buying these woodchips, it would make an important contribution to the future survival of the island’s old growth and environmentally sensitive forests. Join us in calling on Nippon to stop buying old-growth wood from Gunns!
Saving Tasmania's incredible forests
Australia's island state of Tasmania is home to unique ecosystems that contain some of the Earth’s most incredible plants and animals, including the world's tallest hardwood trees and ancient old-growth forests.
Tragically, these global treasures are being destroyed by the logging company Gunns Limited. Gunns cuts down pristine old-growth forests, firebombs the clearcut land, and poisons the local animal wildlife. Streams are polluted, 400-year-old trees destroyed, habitats incinerated, and threatened species killed. Despite one of the largest environmental movements in Australian history opposing this devastation, Gunns' only response has been to sue those who publicly protest its objectionable practices.
Please join us now in the fight to save Tasmania's incredible forests!
