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Green Left magazine reports on Cry of the Forests:
June 24, 2021
Environmental film maker, Jane Hammond spoke with Green Left about her new film, Cry of the Forests. She took time out from developing a teaching resource for the film that will be used by classroom teachers.
The film exposes what is happening to Western Australia’s forests in the state’s south west. The area is one of the richest biodiversity hotspots on the planet and the forests are excellent stores of atmospheric carbon.
Yet they are being cut down at the rate of ten football fields every day.
Hammond began her environmental activism at age 14, getting involved in campaigns to save the forests from logging for wood chips. But, like many activists she was lulled into passivity by the promises of the WA Labor government, led by then Premier Geoff Gallop.
Gallop promised in 2001 a management system that would protect old-growth forests, while protecting timber industry jobs. “But logging continued,” Hammond says.
“We need to protect what is left of all of our forests, not just the areas defined as ‘old-growth.’
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Interview Friday June 25, 2021.
ABC 720 Perth’s Christine Layton interviews the director of Cry of the Forests, Jane Hammond
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/perth/programs/wa-afternoons/wa-afternoons/13400486
Read the transcript here