Re Styx Valley, Tasmania, Australia

[Guest guest]

To:Premier Jim Bacon,

Tasmanian State Government,

Tasmania.

Premier

 

Ms Marguerite Wegner

P.O. Box 30,

Riverton,

Western Australia 6148

 

20.11.2000

 

Dear Mr Bacon,

 

Please stop the logging of the Styx Valley in Tasmania.

The Styx Valley deserves to be preserved for future generations.

Sacrificing the trees of the Styx Valley for short term monetary

gains from woodchip dollars and replacing the ancient trees with tree

plantations

shows complete lack of thought by the Tasmanian Government.

 

Tasmania is in a wonderful position to harvest tourist dollars

from such a spectacular wonder of the world as the Styx Valley.

In the long term, harvesting tourist dollars will be more profitable

for the Tasmanian Community than harvesting the irreplacable

ancient trees of the Styx Valley.

To allow the destruction of these ancient trees indicates foolhardy

and short-sighted thinking by the Tasmanian government.

 

Tourism can provide Tasmania with an increasing income and many jobs

for local people. As an example of how some overseas countries

value Tasmania as a tourist destination, here are some excerpts from a

recent article in the Sunday Times 19/11/2000, Western Australia (Travel,

pge 72)

" Tassie takes the cake. "

 

" World-beating, multi-award winning Tasmania could just about

be the best place in the universe. "

 

" Glowingly acknowledged in the world media, the island State reigns as the

best temperate island in the world. "

 

" North America's top-selling travel magazine Travel and Leisure rates a

Tasmanian tour in the top 100 great trips for the 21st Century. "

 

" Travel and Leisure also named Tasmania as one of the top ten places to

spend Christmas. "

 

" One of North America's biggest selling newspapers The Chicago Tribune named

the West Coast's Strahan the best little town in the world. "

 

" On the East Coast, Wineglass Bay was named one of the five Australian

beaches

in the World's Top 50 Beaches, compiled by Britain's The Independent

newspaper. "

 

" Outside magazine went one better, naming the Freycinet National Park

coastal strip as one of the World's Top 10 Beaches. "

 

We all know of the beauty of Cradle Mountain and the beautiful unspoilt

wilderness that Tasmanians have fought so hard to preserve.

All concerned Australians and concerned citizens from the rest of the world

should

be allowed to have a say in the fate of the Styx Valley. Such a place of

natural beauty belongs to us all.

 

I would love to visit the Styx Valley with my daughter in a few years time

when

she has finished her studies. The towering trees of the Styx Valley are an

awe inspiring natural cathedral created by nature over hundreds of years.

Please don't cut them

down.

 

Kind regards,

 

Marguerite Wegner

 

 

 

 

 

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