Wild Wielangta

Remember, this Sunday 28 September 2008 is most likely your last chance to walk in Coupe 19D and see the swift parrots going about their glorious business, and the Federally endangered orchids, undisturbed.
Despite all representations to date, it seems that Forestry Tasmania will be logging this coupe for woodchips any time now and therefore destroying the breeding [...]

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An enthusiastic group participated in our first threatened species survey in the Exclusion Zone* in Wielangta Forest on Sunday 24th August.
Vehicles gathered at the locked gate in glorious sunshine and after introductions proceeded though the gate in convoy to the coupe, a drive of 5km or so. The two lucky last vehicles got waylaid by [...]

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Hello Everyone,
The picnic-walk into the proposed logging coupe 19D on July 19 was a great success, and it’s hoped that those of you who came along enjoyed the day. With the Mercury reporting an attendance of around 250, and TV news coverage on all channels, it certainly got the word out that people are [...]

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Andrew North of North Barker Ecosystem Services, has located many orchids, after a very brief inspection, just off the road in proposed new logging coupe – W19D.
Two of these are of particular significance:

Pterostylis atriola – Snug Greenhood – so named as it was first discovered on Snug Plains only 11 years ago.
This is [...]

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