To help keep Bob in the Senate,the most helpful thing you can do is to send a cheque payable to Bob Brown Forest Account to GPO Box 404, Hobart, 7001.

Bob Brown won his original court case to stop Forestry
Tasmania logging the magnificent Wielangta forest, but the win was
overturned on a technicality by the full bench of the Federal Court
after the Howard Government joined forces with the Lennon Government to
change the law.

Now Forestry Tasmania is threatening to bankrupt Bob if he does not
pay their court costs by June 29. That would disqualify him from the
Senate.

You can also click here to make an online donation, but this takes longer to process.

Bob would like to thank everybody who has been and continue to be so generous!

The Wielangta Forest case has been won and lost in the Federal Court. Long-lasting environmental benefits will flow from our action and Justice Marshall’s original finding, after 36 days of hearings, that logging is harming the survival of the rare Swift parrot, Wielangta stag beetle and Tasmanian Wedge-tailed eagle, stands.

It will inevitably help save rare species through legal challenges against destructive developments elsewhere in Australia in the future.

The case has also helped give Wielangta Forest its national profile and will help local groups there in their ongoing campaign to save it and its endangered species. Forestry Tasmania was backed in the court by the Tasmanian and Federal governments.

I and Margaret Blakers and all who have taken and persisted with the Wielangta Forest case these last four years, are extremely thankful to all of you who have donated or otherwise contributed to make this landmark case, right to the High Court, possible.

I have now received a demand from Forestry Tasmania for $239,368.53 court costs, as awarded by the Federal Court, to be paid by 29th June (see attached). Be assured we will borrow or raise the money to pay this bill (the reference to bankruptcy in the letter is because this would forfeit my seat in the Senate).

This is the last appeal for Wielangta and, as the 29th June deadline mandates, is quite urgent. If you can contribute, I thank you once again, for your generosity for Wielangta and Australia’s other threatened species habitats.

Yours Sincerely,

Bob Brown

 P.S  Last year noted artist Philip Farley painted ‘Wedge-tailed eagles over the Upper Florentine Valley, Tasmania.’ It is beautifully framed by Luke Wagner. The commissioned cost was $10,000. This painting is for sale and the whole of the sale price will go to our Wielangta Forest appeal. You can get details on the website. Bob

For background on the case: http://www.on-trial.info

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Forestry Tasmania Letter June 2009.pdf	09/06/09 9:56 am	116.16 KB
Wielangta Trial - Harry Evans Advice June 2009.pdf	09/06/09 9:57 am	121.07 KB