With your help, we can achieve our vision of Tasmania as a prosperous and sustainable place to live.Our Common Ground is a coalition of community and business leaders, environment groups and timber workers who are committed to solving the debate about forestry in Tasmania. The Wilderness Society Tasmania is proud to be part of Our Common Ground. We want to see our forests protected, forest workers looked after and a timber industry all Tasmanians can be proud of. I urge you to get involved in the campaign to find common ground. Please visit Our Common Ground and register your support. With your help, we can achieve our vision of Tasmania as a prosperous and sustainable place to live. Vica Bayley - Tasmanian Campaign Director
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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. |
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. |
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| Tasmanian state election – key environmental policy asks |
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Tasmanian environment groups have released the ‘Joint Tasmanian Environment Groups’ 2010 Policy Agenda’, which outlines the key environment policy asks on a broad range of environment policy areas, including coasts, the marine environment, forests, Parks & climate change. |
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| Self-drive guides |
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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
- Creating a 21st century Tasmania - March 16, 2010
- Forestry workers urge us to find our common ground - March 10, 2010
- No federal government approval - March 09, 2010
The Tasmanian state election will be held on Saturday 20 March. We assess the policies of the three major parties on forests and climate change, and urge Tasmanians to think about the forests when they cast their vote.
Watch this video from Our Common Ground and hear workers in the timber industry talk about how their jobs depend on plantations, not logging Tasmania's ancient forests.
Scientists, the community, fishermen and surfers are concerned that Gunns’ proposed Tamar Valley pulp mill would have a devastating effect on the marine environment. If Gunns’ pulp mill is built, it would dump 64,000 tonnes to toxic pollution into flushing Bass Strait every day. The federal government has ordered further research to be done before it will give final approval.
Tasmania Events
- The Great T-Shirt Competition
- Community carbon-accounting days
We're looking for a funky, new, activist t-shirt that can be proudly worn by our volunteers. You can decide on the messaging and colours, but remember to check out the Volunteer section of our website to guide your decision. Send in your design by 31st March
With your help, we can measure the amount of carbon stored in the forests that Forestry Tasmania is planning to log, and find out the true value of Tasmania's forests. Future community carbon-accounting days are being organised, and details will be listed here as soon as they are available.
Tasmania Media Releases
- Timber industry using old-style tactics for old-style politicians - March 17, 2010
- Who can you trust on forests this Saturday? - March 17, 2010
- A change at the top of Gunns would produce win-win for Tasmania - March 16, 2010
Today’s planned stunt by timber industry groups is simply a shallow re-run of a similar 2006 election stunt, according to the Wilderness Society. This stunt is just another example of logging companies dictating policy positions to politicians. Instead of showing vision and understanding the causes of the current crisis in the logging industry, these industry groups are trying to lock them into old-style policies the community doesn’t want and the industry doesn’t need
The Wilderness Society today released a report card assessing the three major parties' policies on forests. Based on our assessment, the Greens rated the highest, demonstrating strong environmental and logging industry reform policies. Labor and Liberal scored very poorly, reflecting their lack of vision in relation to our natural environment, particularly with regards to forests.
Tasmania’s native forests would have a future and jobs at the company would be safer if there was a fundamental change at a Board level at Gunns Limited, The Wilderness Society’s executive director Alec Marr said today. Mr Marr said reports that shareholders are seeking to remove chairman John Gay presented a golden opportunity to shift Gunns onto a more sustainable footing.
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