24. NO FAITH IN THESE RUBBERY "RESERVES"

Liz Ingham, Concerned Residents of East Gippsland, The Age 12/3/97

Norm Huon, in the twilight of his Victorian Association of Forest Industries career, is still getting things wrong. No, I'm not from The Wilderness Society.

When Mr Huon says "Special Protection Zones provide some flexibility" this means flexibility to move their boundaries to log threatened species habitat. We also have Special Management Zones, which are reserves you can clearfell without moving the boundaries.

The Regional Forest Agreement securely protected an additional 0.00023 per cent. This didn't include the unique Goolengook rain forest where 300 people have blockaded since January. They've had it with fake "reserves". They're protecting the forest with their bodies.