Timber giant concedes defeat in decades old logging war
“Timber giant concedes defeat in decades-old logging war” – The Age, Friday September 10.
Dear NEVILLE,
Friday’s headline in The Age was one to remember. After years of fighting to protect Tasmania’s precious old growth forests we’ve finally convinced Gunns to get out of the business of native forest logging.
The writing has been on the wall for Gunns for some time now, and this victory is thanks to your efforts and those of our partners at organisations like The Wilderness Society and Environment Tasmania.
GetUp members have funded full page newspaper ads in Australia and abroad. We’ve mobilised shareholders and customers to influence the ANZ bank and scare off all other Australian banks from financing a destructive pulp mill.
GetUp members like you then took the fight to the world’s biggest financial markets with ads in European and Asian newspapers. Over the years we’ve written to Environment Ministers, placed thousands of phone calls and sent tens of thousands of emails to our politicians to keep this campaign alive.
