Tarkine News
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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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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