Tasmania
The threatened Upper Florentine valley, western Tasmania. Photo Kip NunnTasmania has one of the world’s great temperate wilderness areas. It contains jagged mountains, sub-alpine plateaux, a wild coast with pristine beaches, lagoons and rugged headlands, gorges carved by wild rivers, rainforests, and substantial tracts of primeval eucalypt forests. Large tracts are protected within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area or adjacent National Parks, yet Tasmania’s wilderness is also under enormous threat. Logging is penetrating previously remote and natural valleys. In northern and eastern Tasmania, remnant forests form crucial habitat for threatened species such as the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle. A massive proposed pulp mill would double the rate of logging in Tasmania.
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| Tasmania's irreplaceable forests |
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Tasmania is home to the tallest hardwood forests on Earth, with trees reaching nearly 100 metres and living for over 400 years. It is also home to Australia’s greatest tract of temperate rainforest. |
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| Gunns' proposed pulp mill |
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The Wilderness Society is campaigning to stop Gunns Ltd building a massive native forest-fed pulp mill in the Tamar Valley. This pulp mill will be a disaster for our forests; our oceans and beaches; our marine life and fisheries; our wildlife; our water; the air of the Tamar Valley; our climate; and our economy.
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Discover Tasmania's forests for yourself, with one of our self-drive guides. Find out about walks in the Blue Tier, South Sister, the Tarkine, the Upper Florentine, the Weld, and the Styx. |
Tasmania Updates
- Public rally warns shareholders and investors against proposed pulp mill - August 26, 2008
- Research finds native forests key to climate solution - August 05, 2008
- Burning native forests for power - a lifeline to the woodchippers - July 16, 2008
A huge rally on Saturday August 23 saw thousands of people march through Launceston in opposition to Gunns' proposed pulp mill sending a clear message to shareholders and companies considering supporting the carbon-polluting pulp mill - it will not be allowed to proceed.
Research from leading scientists at the Australian National University has found that Australia has some of the most carbon-dense forests in the world – with the potential to sequester carbon equivalent to 25% of our current annual emissions over a 100 year time frame. Logging and clearing them has significant climate implications.
Native forest bioenergy: bad for climate change and bad for our forests. In response to diminishing global demand for native forest woodchips, Australia’s native forest logging industry is pushing a particularly destructive power generation option.
Tasmania Events
- Film Screening - "Whatever happened to Brenda Hean?"
- Footsteps for a pulp mill free future
The remarkable story of Brenda
Hean – a leader of the world’s first environmental
political party – whose fight to save
Tasmania’s Lake Pedder from a massive hydro-electric scheme lead to her
mysterious disappearance in 1972. When - Hobart 5 October, 4pm & Melbourne 9 October, 7pm
Momentum is building to stop the pulp mill. Come to the Tamar
Valley in September, discover what impacts the proposed mill will have, and how
you can make a difference. The event is over three days, Friday 19th - Sunday 21st September.
Tasmania Media Releases
- Gunns invited on Tamar Valley tour - September 19, 2008
- Footsteps for a pulpmill-free future explores Tasmania's Tamar Valley - September 17, 2008
- Forestry Tasmania clutches at staws to find a scapegoat for their own credibility problems - September 10, 2008
The Wilderness Society has invited Gunns to attend the ‘Footsteps for a pulp mill free future’ following their criticism of the event to be held this weekend in Tasmania's Tamar Valley. Gunns has publicly criticised the event and accused The Wilderness Society of misinformation before the event has even occurred.
A three day spring tour of Tasmania's Tamar Valley beginning this Friday September 19th will increase community understanding of the values of the region and highlight the threats posed by Gunns’ proposed pulp mill. The event will culminate in a community picnic at East Beach, Low Head, on Sunday with Tamar Valley resident Peter Cundall.
A desperate bid to smear The Wilderness Society with baseless and unsubstantiated claims about our role in the Tasmanian forestry debate appears little more than Forestry Tasmania clutching at straws and may pre-empt a taxpayer funded public relations blitz.
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