What about East Gippsland?

Double Standards? It's distressing to hear of "PNG logs going to foreign interests" (30/7)but what of Australia's forests, magnificent and diverse, cleared, not for furniture as often claimed, but to be burnt on site to make room for monocultures suitable for paper. It's difficult to find supporting arguments for any logging of Australia's small proportion of remaining native forests to provide woodchips for the export market when you see satellite photos of Australia, when you read the list of endangered species at risk from logging and when you see the stockpiles of woodchips that cannot be sold. Forests, poor in valuable timber are razed and burnt, and reseeded with more desireable timbers, turning biodiversity into monocultures, abandoning endangered species to extinction and sacrificing our children's natural heritage and potential long term carbon credits for short term gains. Why be concerned for PNG and yet remain silent about the forests of south eastern Australia which are being cleared to turn state parks into agricultural land.