The Environment Centre of the NT is very concerned about the current Great Southern Plantations (GSP) (formerly Sylvatech) forestry project on the Tiwi Islands (Melville Island), north of Darwin . We are even more concerned about major expansion plans for the same project.
 
GSP (formerly Sylvatech) has gained approval from the Territory and Commonwealth Governments to clear up to 26,000 hectares of old growth forest on Melville Island and replace it with an exotic acacia species,  acacia mangium.   The acacia plantations will be used for a new large scale woodchip export industry supplying Japan and other Asian countries.
 
see http://www.ecnt.org/html/cur_land_tiwi.html