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The GetUp Climate Torch Relay comes to Camp Florentine, Southern Tasmania

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A short film showing the GetUp climate torch arriving at Camp Florentine, a long-term forest blockade in the Upper Florentine Valley, Tasmania. The torch is run through the ancient forests of the valley, which are under immediate threat from powerful woodchipping interests, and travels 50 metres up an old growth eucalypt to be handed over on one of Camp Florentine's many tree-sits.

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Produced Aug 18, 2008

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A very short film showing the GetUp climate torch arriving at Camp Florentine, a longterm forest blockade in the Upper Florentine Valley, Tasmania. The torch is run through the ancient forests of the valley, which are under immediate threat from powerful woodchipping interests, and travels 50 metres up an oldgrowth eucalypt to be handed over on one of Camp Florentine's many treesits. For six weeks during August and September, the GetUp Climate Torch Relay will tour right across Australia – through rural towns and capital cities in every state and territory – on its way to Parliament House, Canberra on September 21. Along the route local communities are hosting legs of the relay, which calls on our leaders to halve Australia’s greenhouse pollution by 2020. New research recently released by ANU has shown that Tasmania's old growth forests can play a crucial role in combating climate change. The study has shown that Australia's unlogged native forests store over three times more carbon than previously thought. Mackey, B., Keith, H., Berry, S. and Lindenmayer, D. (2008) "Part 1. A Green Carbon Account of Australia's South-Eastern Eucalypt Forests, and Policy Implications." Green Carbon: The Role of Natural Forests in Carbon Storage. Australian National University Press, Canberra.
Copyright 2009, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. swst. (2008, August 17). The GetUp Climate Torch Relay comes to Camp Florentine, Southern Tasmania. Retrieved September 03, 2010, from EngageMedia Web site: http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/swst/videos/THE_GETUP_CLIMATE_TORCH_RELAY_COMES_TO_CAMP_FLORENTINE_WEBVERSION.avi. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Creative Commons License
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get up

Posted by Direct Action Volunteer at Sep 04, 2008 11:22 AM
Fair play guys... WICKED!!! So funny. Good to see u all having a laugh out there... Big things going on here... maybe see u round the corner... Keep p all the good work. D
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