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Weilangta
Swift Parrot “Reprieve” Not Enough to Halt Extinction Threat
Local residents welcome yesterday’s announcement by David Llewellyn, Minister for Energy and Resources, Primary Industries and Water, that logging and woodchipping will be postponed in Wielangta Forest where...
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Tarkine Wilderness
Tarkine Wilderness - Threats and Values...
Follow the link below on You Tube about the Forestry Tasmania road through the Tarkine.
No Tarkine Road Video
The Tarkine is an extraordinary 447,000 hectare wilderness area of world heritage significance that encompasses the largest...
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Upper Catchment Issues - Community Audits
Upper Catchment Issues - Tasmania
Tasmanian Community Resource Auditors (TCRA)
Upper Catchment Issues - Tasmania is the Journal of the Tasmanian Community Resource Auditors, a community based risk assessment group.
Issues are available here, in PDF format. For more information contact:...
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Oldgrowth for export
OLDGROWTH FOR EXPORT
A report documenting the logging and woodchipping of Tasmania's oldgrowth forests...
Low Resolution Version (5MB)
Please email office@et.org.au for a high resolution, print quality version of this report.
Prepared by The Wilderness Society (Tasmania) Inc
and...
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Gunns' Pulp Mill
Gunns Ltd, Australia’s largest timber company, is proposing to build an 'elemental chlorine free', pulp mill in the Tamar Valley in Tasmania. Recent announcements from the company indicate that the mill will no longer utilise native forests, but will still use a...
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Australian Forests and Climate Alliance
Environment Tasmania is a member of the Australian Forests and Climate Alliance.
The Australian Forests and Climate Alliance is an Australian community
network working to protect Australia’s native forests and secure a
safe climate for future generations.
http://www.forestsandclimate....
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Walk Against Warming 2010
WALK WITH THE PEOPLE. NOT THE BIG POLLUTERS.
We’re doing our bit. It’s time to make our government do theirs.
In 2010 ET worked collaboratively with members Climate Action Hobart and The Wilderness Society to organise Walk Against Warming. Well over 1000 people...
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Walk Against Warming 2009
Thousands support Walk Against Warming in Tassie’s forests 12/12/2009
Over 2000 Tasmanians joined the Walk Against Warming in the carbon-dense forests of the Upper Florentine. The crowd urged world leaders meeting in Copenhagen to take urgent action on climate change, including the...
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Environmental Governance
Levelling The Playing Field
This white paper, Levelling the Playing Field, was commissioned by Environment Tasmania from CSDev Associates, as part of Environment Tasmania’s work and efforts in helping to find a solution to the forests conflict in Tasmania. There has been increasing...
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Tarkine Road
See associated media release here
Open Letter from Concerned Scientists on the Tarkine Road and the Tasmanian Devil
On Monday 16 February 2009, Dr Colette Harmsen, a Tasmanian veterinarian addressed a public meeting of the Waratah-Wynyard Council on a motion before council regarding the proposed...
