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Gunns Announces Stop to Old Growth Logging

On the ABC's Lateline Business program last night, Gunns Limited has finally admitted it's lost the three decade long battle with environmental groups and the majority of Australians.
Chief executive, Greg L'Strange, says the forestry industry isn't popular and needs to modernise to survive." The conflict must end. Far too many people have been financially and emotionally injured in the Australian forest wars." he said

The company told an industry conference in Melbourne that the future is no longer in logging native forests and lies in the more sustainable plantation model. And for Gunns the future includes the controversial $2.3 billion Bell Bay pulp mill in Tasmania.

But instead of fighting, the timber giant now wants to work with environmental groups.

see more at  lateline business

What about Monoculture Plantations and Pulp Mills?

Are Gunns still going to continue with forestry using large monoculture blocks, especially the controversial species like eucalyptus nitens, which has been criticised  by researchers for contaminating water sources in NE Tasmania and taking over increasingly scarce  farmland?
And what of the practice of baiting for  native animals from these plantations?  Are gunns going to move into a more sustainable model including producing timber for construction instead of just for pulp.
Apparently Eucalyptus Nitens is only suitable for pulp.