Possums Leadbeater Lives – Timber Workers Suffer.

The Victorian government’s eight-month delay in issuing a timber release plan is causing enormous uncertainty among the state’s workers and their communities.

Environmentalists have reportedly used the Leadbeaters possum to pressure the state government into phasing-out native timber harvesting…

…with a ban placed on logging within 200-metres of any possum sighting.

We caught up with Australian Forest Product Association chief executive, Ross Hampton to find out what the hold up is.