Tasmanian clearfell logging exposed

Most of the native forest that is logged in Tasmania is woodchipped by Gunns.

Most of the native forest clearfell logged in Tasmania is woodchipped by a company called Gunns. Gunns exports these woodchips, mostly to Japan. Gunns has four woodchip mills in Tasmania. Two of these woodchip mills are located at Bell Bay (north of Launceston), one is at Burnie, and the other is at Triabunna (East Coast).

For more detailed information see the Wilderness Society's Gunns webpage and the Trees not Gunns website.

Gunns also has a proposal to build a pulp mill in Tasmania.

Download the location of all the Gunns woodchip mills in Tasmania. Click on the Gunns placemark for more information and a woodchip tour to Japan to see the huge pulp mills that are consuming the Tasmania forests.

The two images below are the Gunns Bell Bay woodchip mills. The piles that look like sand are in fact woodchips.

Forest pictured below at the Blue Tier in North West Tasmania was clearfell logged in 2004 and is now most likely gone through the Gunns woodchip mills pictured above.

The Iwakuni paper mill in Japan pictured below could have been the final resting place of the forest pictured above before it was converted into paper. The woodchip piles on the wharf are almost half a kilometre long. The image below is indicative of where more than 80% of the Tasmanian native forests ends up.

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