Who is Gunns Ltd and what do they do?
Gunns is the biggest native-forest logging company in Australia and the biggest hardwood-chip company in the world. Gunns receives the overwhelming majority of logs destined for sawmills and woodchip mills from Tasmania. It owns all four export-woodchip mills in Tasmania. It exports more woodchips from Tasmania than are exported from all mainland states combined. Gunns exports over four million tonnes of native-forest woodchips each year. The vast majority of the logging operations on public land in Tasmania consist of clearfelling and burning. Gunns owns over two thirds of the eucalypt sawmilling industry in Tasmania, and two major eucalypt veneer mills. Gunns is the driving force for the destruction of old growth forests in places such as the Tarkine, the Styx, the South-West wilderness and the North-East Highlands. Gunns has also cleared many thousands of hectares of native forest, including rainforest, on its private land. After these forests are chipped, the land is converted to p
