• 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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  • 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: Resource...
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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...
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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 Still Wild Still...
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  • Australian Climate and Forests Alliance
    Environment Tasmania is a member of the Australian Climate and Forests Alliance.   Click here to view the Alliance's briefing paper on NATIVE FORESTS AND THE RENEWABLE ENERGY AMENDMENT BILL (MRET LEGISLATION)  
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  • Gunns' Pulp Mill
    Gunns Ltd, Australia’s largest logging company, is proposing to build a chlorine bleaching, native forest fed pulp mill in Tasmania.  If built, the pulp mill be a disaster for climate change, native forests, the marine environment, human health and industries including tourism...
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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 endangered...
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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 temperate...
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  • Protecting Tasmania's Native Forests
    Protecting Tasmania's native forests is essential for preserving bio-diversity, mitigating climate change and protecting our air and water! Research from leading scientists at the Australian National University has found that Australia has some of the most carbon-rich forests in the world –...
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  • Climate Change
    Climate change is the biggest challenge we will ever face... Environment Tasmania hosted a very successful forum discussing the climate change implications of Gunns' pulp mill - speakers included Calton Frame (Gunns Ltd), Dr Hans Drielsma (Forestry Tas), Lesley Nicklason (Climate Project, Friends...
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