-----Original Message----- From: Richard Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The tallest flowering plants in the world are in Tasmania (Australia). The trees in the Styx valley are the second tallest trees on the planet - just behind the giant redwoods in California. These trees average 500 years of age. One of these Eucalyptus regnans, which means 'king of the eucalypts' measured 134 metres in height and is registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's tallest tree. Please help to save this living breathing forest of giants. These magnificent forests are being logged for woodchips for the Japanese paper mills by the Howard Government and the Tasmanian State ALP Government. The Wilderness Society and the Greens in Tasmania are fighting back with the best weapon they know - public opinion. Each weekend, the Society hosts busloads of visitors to the Valley of the Giants. Pictures of the splendour, as well as the slaughter, of these forests are being sent to scientists, politicians and environment groups around the world. The aim is to have the Howard Government and Labor Opposition drop their support for logging and, united, declare the Valley of the Giants a national park and World Heritage Area. There is a beautiful collection of photos of these trees at: http://www.wilderness.org.au/member/tws/projects/Forests/valgiant.html Please sign the petition to save them from logging, at: http://www.gopetition.com/info.php?currentregion=12&petid=195 Please pass this on, and perhaps the massacre can be stopped. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
