Senator Andrew Bartlett
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
 
The Daintree

Meeting more refugee groups today and then flying out late - the good old red eye special - through to Brisbane and on up to Cairns.

The Daintree rainforest is at risk of clearing, but is also on the verge of finally being properly protected. I don't think most Australians realise that a big part of the Daintree is still not protected from clearing!

All the focus on Tasmania forest can be frustrating sometimes. The forests on Tasmania are important and beautiful, but the Daintree is just so much more valuable in terms of biodiversity (not to mention providing large numbers of existing jobs through tourism), yet the ongoing threats to the Daintree and the Wet Tropics are very serious and are largely being ignored. I hope it's not just me being a parochial Queenslander that makes me frustrated about this.

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