The Strezlecki Rainforest is a major carbon bank

 Strzelecki Ranges: carbon bank

 Mr BARBER (Northern Metropolitan) -- Environmentalists continue to advocate for protection of the Strzelecki rainforests. Last Friday the Friends of the Earth organised a visit for the public to College Creek, which is a site of national conservation significance.

Logging threatens this site as it continues to occur in the important cores and links buffer area. The Strzelecki Ranges is a unique bioregion that was once home to the tallest tree ever measured; it was measured after it was cut down. It was a mountain ash tree, which quite possibly made it the tallest tree in the world.

Victoria is the most ecologically damaged state in Australia, and the Strzelecki bioregion has also been greatly reduced, despite still having some high ecological values.

There is a great opportunity here not just to protect those values but, in cooperation with land-holders, to recreate the Strzelecki rainforest as a major carbon bank.

Click here to go to the Friends of the Earth website and find out about the Strzelecki Stomp