In Western Australia loggers are now poisoning thousands of marri trees that are essential habitat for many endangered forest birds and animals. The purpose of this exercise is to turn the forest into a mono culture jarrah tree farm. However, jarrah grows incredibly slow and is only of use to the timber industry when the trees are at least 150 years old.
In 150 years time the world will be a very different place and it is almost certain that what native vegetation this generation hasn’t destroyed, will be totally protected from industrial exploitation such as logging. As such, the ongoing reckless destruction of the forest’s biodiversity by Collin Barnett’s Liberal/National government is totally irresponsible.
