Wild Wielangta

Dear Friends
The new year started with Forestry Tasmania overturning a peaceful blockade that for over two years had protected rainforest, ancient eucalypts and wildlife in the beautiful Florentine valley.  Despite massive community opposition, they are bulldozing a road and logging right next to the World Heritage area in forest that is itself of World Heritage [...]

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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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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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