Vivienne & Dyson - 11/09/98
My URL:
http://www.nor.com.au/users/gaiaguys
Where the Sky is above you.: Deep in the bush
Main Eco Concern: Pine Brush National Estate
Recommended URL: http://www.westfield_ma.com
Comments: We discovered your website while exploring the links from the NSA Greens, and feel
sure that the sad story of the ongoing illegal destruction of the last surviving remnant of Australia's once vast east coast Clarence Valley riparian rainforest - clearfelled earlier in the century - would be of
enormous interest to you. As two private adjoining landowners who have an intimate knowledge of the issues, we are writing to you now to inform you about a piece of our global heritage which is diminished in area, but
disproportionately huge in political importance. The mainstream media's inaction has lead to public ignorance and the private publication of hundreds of damning files (purchased under recent Freedom of Information
legislation) on the WWW to expose to the grass roots this corruption internationally. Please visit our huge website at: www.nor.com.au/users/gaiaguys/ It is painstakingly documented PROOF of a scandal which has now
grown so extensively as to impede its own resolution. Rare Aboriginal sites, PRIME KOALA HABITAT, and other endangered mammals, some of the world's largest colonies of Earth's most threatened plants and the last
vestiges of the once vast, clear-felled Lower Clarence riparian rainforest and ancient old-growth hardwood forest have been discovered on 492.5 ha (1217ac) of botanically critical National Estate 12 km seaward from the
rural centre of Grafton. It was misrepresented publicly as "ordinary", and thrown away for a dollar an acre to be illegally damaged by cattle, logging and bushrock theft, which continues apace. The Sydney Morning Herald
described this land as "untouched since white settlement". We have suffered arson attacks and a burglary of our files. The intimidation this has caused has made us unable to expose this locally. Because of
this, the man behind this infamy was re-elected on October 3rd by an ignorant electorate who believe the barrage of public lies told about this formally proposed nature reserve. Our published documentation reveals the
truth on the WWW, but the Internet is still in it's infancy here. This previous New South Wales government's crooked land deal corrupted the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service which then corrupted the current Labor
government and their Environment Minister. Knuckling under to political interference, the Environmental Defender's Office, a team of volunteer conservationist lawyers, and the National Parks Association of NSW, one of
Australia's most respected and conservative environmental organisations, have also not pursued their formal assertions that the significant conservation values of this National Estate live - without adequate protection
- OUTSIDE a sham conservation agreement area. In 1996, in the Senate, Greens' Senator Bob Brown extracted, "We cannot intervene" from Federal Environment Minister Robert Hill, infamous for his insistence at the Kyoto
summit that Australia be permitted to INCREASE greenhouse gas emissions On June 26th,1998, the embryonic NSW Greens boldly challenged the state Environment Minister's demonstrable lies to parliament, regarding the well
documented nature of this place, but political pressure seems to have thwarted the following through of their assertions. Using the technology now available, WE BEG YOU to alert your friends to help Australia in the
form of media coverage, letters, emails and telephone calls, so we can expose the corrupt individuals here, the likes of whom are responsible for our appalling record of illegal rainforest destruction and species
extinction. That's sure to have vital ramifications for the little that is left in one of the most environmentally damaged places in the world. We needn't remind you that we all have only one Mother Earth, and if these
ecologically critical islands of Her wilderness are to survive into the future through the firestorm of current development, it will only be with the help of our powerful friends. Yours in solidarity, Vivienne Legg and
Dyson Devine (the two gaiaguys)
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