Tasmania Updates
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Tassie trees on death row - January 25, 2012
How would you feel if you were given a stay of execution – only to find the executioners turning up to take you away regardless? Tragically, that’s what’s happening to high conservation value forests in Tasmania right now.
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Not good enough: Tasmanian forests continue to fall despite agreement - January 17, 2012
Bad things traditionally happen on Friday the thirteenth and this date didn’t bode well for the conservation agreement that could have protected critical areas of Tasmania’s native forests.
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Wild profile - John Biggs - January 12, 2012
John Biggs is a fifth generation Tasmanian, academic, traveller, writer and a bequester for the Wilderness Society. Having lived overseas for much of his working life, he has returned to his native Tasmania where he spends much of his time writing. His latest book is called, Tasmania Over Five Generations: Return to Van Diemen's land?
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Tassie forests - one year later - December 14, 2011
It is a year to the day since former Premier David Bartlett and Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke announced they would support an agreement that promised to end Tasmania’s long-running forest dispute and that logging would stop in high conservation value forests.
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New threats to the Tarkine - December 01, 2011
We all know the Tarkine is an environmental jewel - but when mining companies look at this special place, they see the glint of valuable metals instead. Gold, iron, tin, zinc, lead, copper - you name it and chances are it can be found in the mineral-rich bedrock beneath the Tarkine.
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Gunns’ pulp mill – still not worth the risk - November 20, 2011
The Wilderness Society Tasmania maintains our opposition to Gunns’ Tamar Valley pulp mill. Recently we wrote to potential joint venture partners. It is imperative that anyone considering investing in this project is aware of the ongoing opposition to the project and the outstanding issues that remain unaddressed.
