Bob Brown Foundation has been consistently protesting in Tasmania’s Central Highlands over the past months, calling for protection of native forests while witnessing the flattening of critical carbon stores and wildlife habitat for unnecessary woodchips and sawlog products.

This morning, Tasmania Police evicted citizens who were protesting at a forest being logged in the headwaters of the Nive River.

“Tasmania’s native forests do not need to be logged. The plantation sector already meets more than 90% of Australia’s wood needs. Leading scientist David Lindenmayer recently reported that the Australian market consumed 77% less sawn hardwood timber in 2024-2025 than in 2001-2002. Softwood timber and engineered wood products, predominantly from plantation sources, now dominate the structural market in housing,” said Jenny Weber.

“In Tasmania, woodchipping is still driving the destruction of native forests on this island. Logging in Tasmania’s native forests must cease for the benefits of maintaining and growing forest carbon, securing a future for many species of plants and animals that exist in these forests and for community resilience as we face the global threats of planetary heating and biodiversity collapse,” said Jenny Weber.

“For the sake of retaining habitat for endangered wildlife, logging must cease. The forests where defenders were demonstrating today is crucial habitat for many endangered species, including the Tasmanian Devil and Eastern Quoll,” said Jenny Weber.

“Frontline forest defenders will continue to expose what we are losing across this island as native forests are flattened. While the government refuses to take action to cease the destruction and protect all native forests, it is left to the citizens to expose the forest loss on this island,” said Jenny Weber.