"FATHERS RUFFED, MOVES TO PROTECT A RARE PARROT, HAVE PUT TIMBER WORKERS'JOBS IN JEOPARDY".
"Green leek parrot endangers,
1000 jobs in NSW".
- "Timber jobs cut to save rare bird
- May wipe out entire town
- Green leek parrot listed as vulnerable".
"A PARROT is about to cost 1000 workers their jobs because the Federal Government has ordered a timber industry to be shut down to protect the bird. The unprecedented government intervention will see the jobs cut within days".
"The Daily Telegraph has learned Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett's department issued a stop-work order to the New South Wales Government 10 days ago, a move the industry claims could wipe out the entire town of Deniliquin in the state's south. The Opposition says the move is overkill and has branded Mr Garrett a "warbling twit".
"There are a lot of them out there," Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt said of the parrots".
"As one person put it to me this morning, you've got the warbling twit protecting the green leak parrot but sacrificing 1000 jobs."
"The Environment Department ordered New South Wales cease all clear felling of red gum in the Central Murray Darling region - timber used mainly for firewood and railway sleepers - due to concerns over the future of the parrot".
"Sometimes referred to as the green leek parrot, the social bird nests in the hollows of the red gums and is nationally listed as vulnerable".
"Conservationists claim the flight patterns of the bird, which lives for up to 25 years, are being disrupted as it does not like flying over open spaces".
"The discovery hundreds of families face losing their livelihoods comes a day before Treasurer Wayne Swan hands down a Budget aiming to help buffer the country against unemployment".
"The State Government is seeking an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Mr Garrett, claiming the intervention by the Commonwealth to declare the logging illegal would cause the immediate loss of at least 500 timber jobs and 360 indirectly related jobs".
"The NSW Government is also seeking legal advice on whether it can get around the Federal Government order, which has given NSW State Forests until May 31 to stop logging of the Central Murray wetlands in the Riverina area or face legal action".
"A Forests NSW briefing note obtained by The Daily Telegraph warned 11 sawmills would be forced to close overnight and 800 people would lose their jobs along with the closure of an industry worth $60 million to the NSW economy".
"It accused the Federal Government of being cavalier in its approach to NSW by acting before a $2 million State Government funded Environmental Impact Statement on logging in the area had been completed. It was due to go on public exhibition a day later on June 1".
"The Daily Telegraph, has obtained a letter of demand to stop work, written on May 1 from Mr Garrett's secretary for the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts "DEWHA", Rose Webb, to Forests NSW manager Garry Rodda".
"Ms Webb raised concerns about the impacts of the State Government's harvesting practices on the birds' flight patterns and nesting habitat".
"Your Comments:
"Good on you pete for putting your money where your mouth is. After all, Mr Garrett is the Environment Minister, clearly everyone's employment status is someone else's problem".
"As a primary producer, whose property has been ravaged by the effects of the worst draught in living memory, we have seen countless stands of river red gums die on our property. The current government restrictions extend also to these dead trees from being cut for millable timber which is absurd as they eventually then fall down anyway and become a source of fuel for bush fires".
"Rural communities in the draught affected regions have been forced to find other ways of making ends meet to ensure their own survival, and sweeping policy implementations "such as this" present a very real threat to the existence of these smaller townships".
"Primary producers and these rural communities do more for environmental causes than city dwelling greenies or the pollies would care to realise - our livelihoods depend on ensuring a healthy and balanced eco system".
"Clearly its best to chop down the last trees then be out of work. Leave no tree unchopped. If the people chopping the trees planted an equal number of board-meters of trees, they wouldn't be in this position".
"Planting more trees would increase jobs by 1000. So its not really that the people don't have jobs, they just need to expand their view to be planting when the trees are in short supply and chopping when they are in high supply".
"If wood is cheap only because you're not replacing it, then you should be charging more for it. I'd say over 10,000 people are out of work in the country from not building another nuclear power plant. Lets build the power plants and put them back to work".
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