Letter

In response to Cutting through the spin - Ten logging myths in the new ABARES report

Chopping the logging myths

Thanks to David Lindenmayer for his excellent piece destroying the conveniently contrived myths which offer the justification for logging Australia’s native forests. The article’s “message to words ratio” is powerful.

Yes, David, there is no rational justification for the ongoing logging of these forests, now almost all woefully miserable echoes of what they once were. The state of the forests is repeated in the numbers and health of the species native to this habitat.

David has produced a brief yet concise piece that should be overwhelmingly persuasive to clear-minded people. It deserves to be mass-copied and dropped in every Australian letter-box and reproduced in newspaper advertorials. Others would be better placed to advise on social media applications.

— Bruce Foskey from Blackwood, Vic