In 2010, the Qld Government sold 99 year leases of Forestry Plantations to Hancock’s Timber Resources: 350 000 hectares in all. One plantation is situated right next to Wet Tropics World Heritage. Caribbean Pine mono-culture is being grown with intensive aerial spraying of chemicals for ‘weeds’, i.e. native forest regrowth. Many in the community express that they have not been consulted or informed. Licenses should be reassigned and the forests re-vegetated for crucial wildlife corridors and habitat for cassowaries and other wildlife.
HQ Plantations growing pine in the Wet Tropics
Caribbean Pine mono-culture is being grown with intensive aerial spraying of chemicals for 'weeds', i.e. native forest regrowth. Many in the community express that they have not been consulted or informed
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Group Leading this Campaign: Friends of the Earth Far North Queensland
Campaign Target Type: No Target Stated
Who this Campaign is Targeting: Not stated
Main Issue of the Campaign: Conservation
Campaign Ran From: 2010 to 2021
Campaign Outcome: Coming soon
Outcome Evidence: Outcome not yet determined
Year Outcome Assessed: Not yet assessed
Geographic Range of Activity: Regional
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