Tarkine News
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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Australians watched on in abject horror through their screens as the ‘lungs of the planet’ blazed and blackened. After weeks of raging fires consumed large stretches of the Amazon, the media eventually turned our eyes to the global tragedy. A...
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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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