Wild Wielangta

The recent announcement by Premier Bartlett about planting 2,500 hectares of Blue Gums on the East Coast over the next 5 years, as feeding habitat for endangered Swift Parrots, is bizarre and misguided.
If Swift Parrots are to avoid extinction they need to be able to breed successfully. For this they require forests full of [...]

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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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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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