Tourism makes more money

Pete Lusk, Westport, NZ, The Age (letter), 25/3/2002

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It amazes me that the Victorian Government still allows the logging of old-growth forests of the quality of Goolengook. In New Zealand, there is almost no logging of native forest on public land. Forest on private land can only be logged with an approved sustainable plan.

In my region, the west coast of the South Island, 85 per cent of the land area is protected. Tourism is the biggest and fastest-growing industry. The towns that are booming are those in national parks and the World Heritage area.

In the long term there's far more money to be made from taking tourists into these areas than from logging them.

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