Deforestation fight in Tasmania - 18 Oct 09

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Australia suffers from severe deforestation, along with countries like Brazil and Indonesia. In Tasmania, forests have been shrinking steadily over the past 50 years due to the state's billion-dollar timber industry. But besides depleting the forest itself, logging also releases significant levels of carbon into the atmostphere. Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley travelled to the Tasmanian forest, at the centre of the debate between the industry and the environmentalists.