Media Releases

Environment Off the Election Agenda? This Could Jeopardise Jobs & The Economy Say 26 Groups

June 30, 2025

Tasmania’s ‘clean and pristine’ brand underpins tens of thousands of jobs and brings billions of dollars into the state. Yet, neither major party has demonstrated any real leadership in the lead up to the election in tackling Tasmania’s declining environment and deteriorating image. Accordingly,...

Tasmania is on track to lose its status as a ‘clean energy leader’

June 23, 2025

Tasmania’s renewable energy generation is set to slump to 66% by 2030, down from a near 100% in recent years, according to a new national report released today. The State of the Transition report, commissioned by Australia’s conservation councils, highlights key steps for governments to...

Australia’s Conservation Councils Protest Woodside’s “Carbon Bomb”

June 04, 2025

Environment Tasmania stands with fellow Conservation Councils around Australia in opposition to Woodside’s destructive North West Shelf project. With June 4th declared a National Day of Action, Conservation Councils in every state and territory have protested against the Labor Government’s approval of the North West...

Woodside’s North West Shelf Extension: A Climate Catastrophe in the Making

May 28, 2025

Maddie McShane, Energy & Climate Campaigner, Environment Tasmania, said: “This gas expansion isn’t just a threat to Western Australia’s environment- it’s a national climate risk. The emissions will affect all of us, from WA to Tasmania. Climate change doesn’t stop at state borders,...

New ASC Farm Standard serves salmon industry, not oceans

May 13, 2025

Across the globe, conservation groups from major salmon farming regions – Norway, Canada, Chile, Scotland, and Australia – have criticized the Aquaculture Stewardship Council’s (ASC) newly released Farm Standard for continuing to endorse irresponsible salmon farming practices that place wild fish and marine ecosystems...

Keep Sardines Wild, Not on Salmon’s Menu

April 21, 2025

The Tasmanian government is planning an enormous sardine industry on the coast of Tasmania and this has now been confirmed in RTI documents obtained by the ABC this Easter weekend as a venture that the salmon industry encouraged and acknowledged as “important for Tasmania”...

Polling shows two thirds of Tasmanians support reducing salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour to protect the Maugean skate

March 26, 2025

Nearly two-thirds (65%) of Tasmanians support reducing salmon farming to the level necessary to protect the Maugean skate Only 30% of Tasmanians support the introduction of special laws for the salmon industry. In all five Tasmanian Federal electorates opposition to special laws has double...

Environment Tasmania welcomes the RSPCA decision to revoke Huon Aquaculture's certification

March 20, 2025

"We applaud the RSPCA in taking the appropriate step in revoking Huon Aquaculture's certification in light of the recent mass disease outbreak and mortality events at Tasmania salmon factory farms. Fish are sentient beings, and the pain and suffering that would have been experienced...

Tasmanian environment and community groups urge Albo to not exempt salmon industry from environment laws in wake of fish deaths and fat ball pollution

March 05, 2025

A dozen community and environment groups have written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urging him to not exempt the Tasmanian salmon industry from Australia's environment laws, as the community reels from recent fish deaths and fat ball biological pollution washed up on Tasmanian beaches...

Media release: Conservation Councils calls for PM to abandon dangerous precedent and uphold nature laws

February 22, 2025

Conservation Councils have written to the PM stating the move to introduce special legislation for the salmon industry would set a dangerous precedent that overrides Australia’s nature laws, disregards international World Heritage obligations and poses a serious risk to many of Australia’s other threatened...