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"We have quite enough national parks" 6-Mar-2014 At 11:26:18 AM bones

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From sumofus.org

Last night, Tony Abbott told the timber industry that too much native forest was "locked up" in national parks -- and that logging companies were the "ultimate conservationists".

Abbott's new forests policy? No more national parks, the destruction of Tasmania's World Heritage listed forests -- and an announcement that our pristine wilderness is now "open for business". This is corporate power gone crazy: a Prime Minister bowing to the extreme policy of an industry lobby, instead of listening to the public. We have to show him that we won't just stand back and accept this.

Tell Tony Abbott now: keep your hands off our national parks! Commit to protect our forests now.

These were just some of Tony Abbott's words last night: "We have quite enough national parks. We have quite enough locked up forests already. In fact, in an important respect, we have too much locked up forest."

Abbott said that "the environment is meant for man", and slammed the "green ideology" that had lead to the protection of Australia's forests. Abbot is now forming a new body to "advise" on forest policy -- headed by the national director of a forestry industry lobby. This is what happens when you put corporations in the driving seat of your forests policy.

Thanks to donations by thousands of SumOfUs members, we're already working with the Wilderness Society and others to take out public ads calling on Environment Greg Hunt and Tony Abbott to commit to save Tasmania's forests. But we need to speak out together every time Abbott and his cronies make a statement like this -- to show them that the public just wont' accept this outrageous behaviour. It's up to us to make sure the political costs to this sort of industry-sanctioned destruction are too high.

Sign the urgent petition now to tell Tony Abbott not to destroy our national parks.

Sign the urgent petition now to tell Tony Abbott not to destroy our national parks

Thanks for all that you do,

Paul, and the rest of us.