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Styx Valley is a valley forest reserve 1.5 hours drive from Hobart that is location adjacent to the Tasmanian wilderness world heritage site located in Tasmania, Australia.

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Tony Abbott has stated that he does not support the further lockup of forests and is for logging as he believes we as a county have enough national parks and too locked up forests. He attempted to allow for selective logging of the Tasmania's World Heritage area however failed. He would be stripping 74,000 hectares of land from the world heritage listingTony Abbott made it clear that he wanted to restore the damage to the Tasmanian forestry industry which resulted in loss of thousands of local jobs done by the Federal and State labour. He believed that the forest  had already been degraded or planted with timber to be logged and no longer pristine. And that this would provide the timber industry with a future, in the Australian economic future.

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The Wilderness Society and related regional groups responded the attack of Tasmania’s Forests with the Styx Campaign as the flagship for a comprehensive forest protection agenda. The campaign stepped up with the ‘Global Rescue Station’ tree sit in the Styx Valley. These and other activities all over the country led to high levels of community, media and political pressure, culminating in the future of Tasmania’s Forests becoming the environmental issue of the 2004 Federal Election Campaign.

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The Wilderness Society has fought hard for the protection of Tasmania’s forests, especially the Styx Valley, since the 1970’s.