Tarkine News
It had been quiet in Tasmania's forests, until recently. With a long history of forest conflict, a peace deal struck between environmentalists and loggers in 2012 cooled things off in the state. And despite the Liberal government putting a...
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What if you could run to save one of the last truly wild places on earth? Currently, in Tasmania’s North-West corner, there are protesters chaining themselves to trees or occluding the path of bulldozers. Tireless protesters, putting their lives...
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Cassy O'Connor MP | Greens Forests spokesperson The logging industry’s destruction of ancient rainforest in the takayna/Tarkine region is the first major test for Tasmania’s new Premier and Climate Change Minister Peter Gutwein. The Gondwanan rainforests of north west...
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A Bob Brown Foundation activist has turned to the public to help pay off fines received during forestry protests. Hobart veterinarian Colette Harmsen was ordered to pay $1000 for her involvement in protests at the Ta Ann mill at...
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More than 20 North-West GPs and emergency doctors have banded together in hopes of protecting a "high value conservation area" of the Tarkine recently released from a moratorium on logging.They say logging the area would be a direct threat to...
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