Tarkine News
Erchana Murray Bartlett is running from Cape York to Melbourne raising funds and awareness for the extinction of Australian native animals. I caught up with her “1600 and 40 something” kilometres into her epic journey. We talk about soccer,...
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This was a real good excuse to yarn with my dear pal Jonty Brown. Jonty is a type one diabetic, Northerner, barber and mad dog runner and coach with AR London. In past lives, he’s been a surf instructor, motorcycle...
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A beautiful chat with Andrew ‘Googz’ Thorpe. Gunnai gunditjmara man, heroic runner and mental health advocate, graduate of the fantastic Indigenous Marathon Project!! We talk about running 100ks, the 777 challenge, Indigenous Marathon Program, fundraising, coping with depression and mental ill health, foster children, and much more.
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I first walked south into the Tarkine wilderness in 1973, searching for the thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger. This large, striped carnivorous marsupial was hunted to the brink of extinction after 1888, when the Tasmanian parliament voted...
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Sustainable Timber Tasmania has released plans to clearfell about 4569 hectares of hardwood plantation and native forest in the North-West. The three-year plan also outlined STT's intentions to log and regenerate nearly 6600 hectares of forest in the North-West,...
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