Forestry

Greens Leader Bob Brown says last night's firebombing of two cars parked by the Strathgordon Road in the Upper Florentine Valley is a return to the violent lawlessness of logging vigilantes two decades ago.

The culture of violence and ignorance in Tasmania's anti-environmental establishment is on global show today, Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne.

"Rudd has direct responsibility to save species" - Brown

Over the eight years of operation of the nation's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act a major species, the Swift Parrot, has moved rapidly closer to extinction because of federal and state policy, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.

The one-season stay of logging at Wielangta is pre-extinction blinkers' tactics by Forestry Tasmania's Managing Director Bob Gordon', Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.

"His Mae West 'pleased to see you' welcome to the Swift Parrot is with a chainsaw in his pocket. Next year he will wreck their ancient nesting ground," Senator Brown said.

Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne tabled a case study of the devastating impact of Managed Investment Schemes (MIS) for plantations on communities in northwest Tasmania in the Senate today.

The Minister for Climate Change, Penny Wong, has ignored Australia's logging and burning of native forests as a critical contribution to global warming in her Sydney speech to loggers today, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.