Melville island


Melville Island forestry: Rainforest? What rainforest?

Great Southern Plantations may want to blame “mapping technology” for some of its breaches of landclearing regulations on Melville Island, but perhaps it should just learn how to count, writes Charles Roche.

Praise the woodchips and pass the backpackers

Australia’s largest promoter of forestry-based Managed Investment Schemes—Great Southern Plantations—has been using unskilled foreign backpackers to carry out sensitive land clearing operations, writes Henri Ivrey.