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Let's Buy Back Margaret River’s Mowen Forest
Quotes from the Save Mowen Forest Facebook page.
"Stop Mowin’ down the Mowen Forest."
"The anticipated $100,000 profit doesn’t include the cost to the environment." "The decision of government to subsidise uneconomic logging is based on nostalgia. Cut the emotion, don’t cut the trees." "Do you call $100,000 profit? What a waste of time and space." "Loggers will trash all the way to the bank for a measly $100,000 profit." "To reach these chosen trees the machines will trash its neighbours. Don’t trash the neighbourhood." "A few loggers’ small profit is a whole communities huge loss." "Don't prop up the forest industry with crutches of money - our money." "The forest is industrious enough left on its own thank you. It produces clean air, protects undiscovered species, encourages rainfall, and prevents extinctions, to name a few of the industries it is engaged in." "Loggers come today and are gone tomorrow. A short term gain for a long term pain." "There is no forest like old forest. Like - where's the old forest?" "The good old days have gone and so has the good old forest; cut it out guys!" "You can't always do what you've always done without coming undone." "Is tall tree syndrome like tall poppy syndrome?" "Forest destroying politicians are full of hot air like CO2." "By degrading the forest you are silently killing the wildlife." "Don't criticise orang-utan habitat destruction until we look after our own back yards." "Yeah, maybe if we had orang-utans we'd value our forests." "Small nocturnal animals are not sexy enough to preserve SO not all animals are equal hey?" "It's not the forests fault that it is degraded. Far out, stop grading it and let it grow." "Over generations, after each logging occurrence, the perception of the original forest quality is gradually forgotten until it has diminished like the forest itself." "Will we soon have signs saying ‘No trees allowed in this forest?’" "So the scales show $90,000 = 750 football but off the scales is the death of habitat and air quality." "Buy 750 Football fields of forest for $90,000, hey that’s less than the price of a residential block of land in Margs." "Let’s buy the forest to save the trees." "Logging for a loss – to the community, to the environment, to the ability to create old growth forest." "Creating old growth for the future, yup we’re down to that." "We value our forest for rest, for the rest of our lives."
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