Our Successes

Working in collaboration, Environment Tasmania successfully achieved both the Tasmanian Forestry Agreement in 2012 and the ban on Super Trawlers from Tasmanian waters in 2017. Our campaign against the expansion of the salmon industry has made significant waves and we continue to be active in this space.

Stop the Super Trawler

Environment Tasmania successfully worked in coalition with commercial fishers to see off the Super Trawler from Tasmania’s waters in 2017. In the early 1980s, Australia took control of its waters, only allowing...

Salmon Industry

Environment Tasmania was Tasmania’s first environment group to campaign about the problems associated with the salmon farming industry. Campaigners began raising awareness about the environmental impact from this industry in 2015 with...

Tasmanian Forestry Agreement

Environment Tasmania played a critical role in progressing the high stakes Tasmanian Forestry Agreement, otherwise known as the Forest Peace Deal, which saw hundreds of thousands of hectares of native forest protected...