"Gunns abandons legal chase"　（ＡＢＣ News Jan 30）
Press Release by Gunn（Jan 29）
Comment from Greens（Jan 29）
Press Release from Gunns20（Jan 29）

Japanese reassured over Tasmania's woodchip industry（ABC News Jan 25）

Forestry 'open to scrutiny'（The Mercury Jan 27）
Tasmanian Government Supports FSC Certification（ＦＳＣAustralia Jan 27）

Press Release, March 17, 2009 TOKYO – Toyoyuki Kawakami, Campaigner for RAN, today issued the following statement, responding to Australian paper company Gunns, Ltd’s announcement that they are dropping their legal claims against the Wilderness Society:

"Rainforest Action Network (RAN) welcomes Gunn’s decision to end their lawsuit against the Wilderness Society.” 

“We strongly urge Gunns to settle its lawsuit against the rest of the Gunns 20 and to stop destroying old growth forests in Tasmania.”

“Additionally, we urge Japanese paper companies, the major purchasers of Gunns’ products, such as Nippon Paper and Oji Paper to ensure that none of the chips coming to Japan are from Tasmania’s last remaining old growth forests.”

ABC News, July 7, 2008, World heritage extension recommended

A United Nations committee has again suggested that Australia extend the boundary of Tasmania's Wilderness World Heritage Area.

The Australian, July 8, 2008, Peter Garrett rejects heritage call to protect eucalypt forests

AUSTRALIA will defy a call by the 21-nation World Heritage Committee to extend Tasmania's Wilderness World Heritage Area to include tracts of tall eucalypt forests scheduled for logging.

Conservationists immediately urged federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to heed the call, but late yesterday he rejected it. "The Australian Government has no plans to extend the current (WHA) boundary into production forests," Mr Garrett said in a statement.

Press Release, May 23, 2008

RAN’s new report, The Truth Behind Tasmanian Forest Destruction and the Japanese Paper Industry, details how Australian lumber giant Gunns Limited's egregious logging practices in Tasmania are supported by major paper companies in Japan, such as Nippon and Oji, which buy huge volumes of woodchips that come from Tasmania’s old growth and environmentally sensitive forests.

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This week the UN’s World Heritage Committee announced that it will investigate the impacts of Gunns' clearing and firebombing have on environmentally critical forests in Tasmania, an island state in Australia.

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Nippon Paper is the biggest buyer of Gunns’ old-growth woodchips, making the company the leading supporter of Gunns’ destruction of Tasmania’s ancient forests. If the company would simply stop buying these woodchips, it would make an important contribution to the future survival of the island’s old growth and environmentally sensitive forests. Join us in calling on Nippon to stop buying old-growth wood from Gunns!

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Australia's island state of Tasmania is home to unique ecosystems that contain some of the Earth’s most incredible plants and animals, including the world's tallest hardwood trees and ancient old-growth forests.

Tragically, these global treasures are being destroyed by the logging company Gunns Limited. Gunns cuts down pristine old-growth forests, firebombs the clearcut land, and poisons the local animal wildlife. Streams are polluted, 400-year-old trees destroyed, habitats incinerated, and threatened species killed. Despite one of the largest environmental movements in Australian history opposing this devastation, Gunns' only response has been to sue those who publicly protest its objectionable practices.

Please join us now in the fight to save Tasmania's incredible forests!

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