Prue Acton on how logging Australian forests contributes to global warming and kills native wildlife
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Pru Acton (Schoo's Studio)
This week, we hear Dr. Caldicott’s recent conversation with Prue Acton, artist, internationally recognized clothing designer and spokesperson for an alliance of conservation groups in Australia called SERCA (South East Region Conservation Alliance). In the 1980’s, Acton became involved with naturalists in Victoria, Australia who showed her the impact of industrial-scale logging and the ever-increasing demand for woodchips for the local and Japanese paper markets. Having since moved to the southeast coast of New South Wales in Australia, within close distance to the Nippon Paper-owned chipmill at Eden, she has increased her efforts toward conservation. Acton addresses how depleting Australia’s forests kills native wildlife and greatly contributes to global warming. Read the March 2010 article Logging starts, koala battle goes on.