Have you seen the Examiner newspaper In Depth feature 'Tasmanian native forestry: clearfell, burn and sow in the Mutual Valley near Derby, but at what cost?' on the logging of the Gondwanin remnant native forests of north east Tasmania by journalist Adam Holmes?

Follow the link for the online article and please share this petition with your networks to highlight to Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein that our native forests are worth more standing!

A quick out-take from the article:

'Heading into the Mutual Valley, a sign at the end of a driveway invites tourists into a forest cabin accommodation business.

From the cabins, coupe CC161B sits within clear view on the adjacent hill. It painted a picture of the reality of native forestry and tourism working in the same landscape. The industries have a memorandum of understanding, but does that work on the ground?

Jules Seymour runs a property management business for short-term accommodation properties around the area. She moved to Derby four years ago, one of the many who have been drawn to the town recently as it became Tasmania's premier mountain biking destination.

Ms Seymour said a lot of her clients were worried about how native forest harvesting would impact tourism, but were afraid of commenting publicly...

One of those who knows all too well the local blowback in raising native forestry concerns is Blue Derby Wild co-ordinator Louise Morris. Along with Mr Bretz, they carry out constant monitoring of local forests - and they say the issue won't be going away.

"I think people thought that, post-Tasmanian Forest Agreement, this had been solved because there was so much media of, 'oh, the forests are saved'," Ms Morris said. "But no one actually looked behind the buffer so to speak, that some areas might have been saved, but really, it's just business as usual."