Wild Wielangta

You and your friends are invited to celebrate the returning of the swift parrots home, to feed and breed. These precious creatures CURRENTLY FACE THE THREAT OF HABITAT DESTRUCTION!
Bring food for a pot luck dinner. Arrive at Copping Hall 7pm for 7.30pm dinner Saturday August 30th 2008. Please contribute $10 to $20 donation towards campaign [...]

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Three members of the Wild Wielangta, South East Tas. Forest Protection Group, met with three of Premier David Bartlett’s advisors on 5th August 2008. The advisors listened intently to our ‘Wielangta story’ for an hour.
We offered a ‘New, Fresh Way of Working’.
We offered the Tasmanian Government the opportunity to use Wielangta as a way to [...]

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On Sunday 24th August, the first of a series of Threatened Species surveys in Wielangta Forest will occur. The surveys aim to serve three purposes:

to gather much needed additional information about Wielangta’s Threatened Species
to provide an opportunity for as many people as possible to experience this area for themselves
to continue to pressure the [...]

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The Green Carbon report from the Australian National University has recently provided some data to show that specifically Australian, eucalypt, old growth and high conservation value, temperate forest is more valuable as a carbon sink, than as woodchips.
Carbonpositive.net says:
Using data collected on the ground and from satellite imaging of 240 sites over 14.5 million hectares, [...]

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Mount Nelson resident, Andrew Hingston, is the lucky first person to catch a glimpse of endangered Swift Parrots as they return to Tasmania to breed this year. Andrew saw two of the parrots in trees around Mt Nelson Primary School last weekend and six birds were seen yesterday. Andrew is an Honorary Research Associate at [...]

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