Dear Kikuko and Ken'ichi Mitsusue,

Here are some more photos for the Australia/Pacific part of the Gallery.

All photos should have the following credit information:

Courtesy: The Wilderness Society, Tasmania

The captions should read as follows:




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Star of Hope: On 24 April, the Wilderness Society is lighting this beacon of hope for the Styx Forest in Tasmania, Australia - the tallest hardwood forest on the planet. A giant 4 meter diameter solar powered star, dubbed the 'Star of Hope', is programmed to light up for five minutes every night from the 24th onwards. The star is perched atop the world's tallest Christmas Tree: an 80 meter tall old-growth Eucalyptus regnans which is threatened with imminent logging.




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These magnificent trees are some of the tallest in the world. The Wilderness Society in Tasmania, Australia, is campaigning to save them from being logged for woodchips.




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This huge old-growth Eucalyptus regnans was cut from within the Styx Valley Wilderness, one of the tallest forests in the world.




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The magnificent trees in the Styx Valley Wilderness, Tasmania, Australia, are being logged, firebombed by helicopters, and laid with 1080 poison to kill marsupials grazing upon plantation seedlings. The ecosystem is destroyed by such practices. Ninety percent of the destroyed forest goes via export woodchipping to the papermills of Japan. The rainforest understorey is destroyed. The Wilderness Society is fighting to save these beautiful trees from this fate.