Wild Wielangta

The local Wielangta campaign is starting to gear up again post-summer break and post Swift Parrot breeding. After winning a reprieve for the Swift Parrots, so that they could breed safely in Wielangta this summer, time is now running out as the parrots begin to disperse in preparation for heading back to the mainland over [...]

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On 3rd October 2008, three members of Wild Wielangta, South East Forest Protection Group had a 30 minute meeting with David Llewellyn – Minister responsible for Forestry and Threatened Species.
David Llewellyn agreed to send scientists into Coupe 19D and surrounding areas to verify the sightings of swift parrots by community members. He said he [...]

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Birds Australia Conservation Manager Chris Tzaros spoke with Fran Kelly on ABC Radio National Breakfast yesterday to highlight the impending threat, to the survival of the Swift Parrot, from logging in Wielangta Forest.
For the past 13 years, a national recovery program involving all the eastern States and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars has been implemented [...]

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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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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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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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