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Jenny Weber - winner of the 2012 Bob Brown Foundation Environmentalist of the Year

Author: Marine Climate Change 2012 Jenny Weber is the winner of the 2012 Environmentalist of the Year prize from the newly formed Bob Brown Foundation. Jenny has managed the Huon Valley Environment Centre at Huonville, south of Hobart, since it set up ten years ago. She has shown ext | Time: 5.52 min

Jenny Weber

Environmentalist of the Year 2012

Jenny Weber has been a volunteer forest activist for the past 15 years, spending the last 10 years instigating and coordinating hundreds of direct action campaigns in Tasmania’s southern world heritage forests for the Huon Valley Environment Centre. Her single vision has been to protect the natural values of these forests against the pressures of clearfell logging for woodchips and veneer for overseas logging companies.

Jenny has been the prime motivator and supporter of the Environment Centre’s forest protection activities. In 2006, she coordinated a 14 month long blockade in the Weld Valley. The blockade was dismantled and 50 people were arrested during protests about the building of a new road into wilderness areas.

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This is a different fund. In this age of rapid destruction of the biosphere, attended by cynicism and pessimism, our fund will use ecological reality and optimism to promote real environmental wins.

We aim to help campaigns and activists who show real pluck and intelligence in protecting ecosystems, species and wild and scenic heritage.

My appeal to fund the court case to stop the logging destruction of Tasmania’s magnificent Wielangta Forest drew a generous response from people all over Australia and beyond, though none of this generosity was tax deductible.

Now the Bob Brown Foundation will carry on that work, to aid people to protect more scenic land environments, wildlife and marine ecosystems in Tasmania, around Australia, in Antarctica and across our region.

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The wild and scenic beauty of Tasmania

The ecological integrity of Australia

The happiness of humanity on Earth

The voluntary board of the Foundation is Bob Brown (Chair), Paul Thomas (Secretary), Rosalie Woodruff (scientist, Lymington, Tasmania) Roland Browne (solicitor, Hobart), Ben Oquist (business and political strategist, Canberra) and Naomi Edwards (actuary, Petcheys Bay, Tasmania).

The Deni Greene Award 2013

For a professional who has shown outstanding courage in their work for sustainability

The Deni Greene Award has been established to recognise the many contributions that Deni Greene made to sustainability during her time in Australia through an annual award named in her honour.