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Forest Fact File - Sustainability

Resource Assessment Commission and Commonwealth EPA Views

It is a myth that RAC supports the view that current forestry is environmentally sustainable. In "The Development of scientific criteria for Commonwealth government purchases of environmentally preferred paper products", by CEPA they said that "...the RAC inquiry report recognised a difference between obtaining sustainable fibre yield from native forests and maintaining a viable ecosystem.".

On old growth forest logging CEPA said that such logging "has been demonstrated to be environmentally unsustainable.".

Reference: habitat Australia November 1994.

Debunking of the the Timber Industry line of RAC o.k. on old growth.

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