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

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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.

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.

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