'It's a climate crime': Forestry wars reignite in Tasmania

It's being described as a re-ignitIon of the forestry wars just weeks out from the early election in Tasmania. The Liberal Party is promising to unlock part of a "wood bank" set aside 10 years ago. Environmental groups are promising to protest the move, and some in the industry are raising concerns too.

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The Liberals are promising to make up to 40,000 hectares of native forest in Tasmania available for logging - it's part of what's known as the Future Potential Production Forest (FPPF).

The land was established to secure a ‘wood-bank’ to provide for future sustainable forestry production in Tasmania.

There's a total of around 356,000 hectares of FPPF dispersed across the state, outside of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.