The Greens support the Bob Brown Foundation’s court challenge to Forestry Tasmania, who have refused public land access for the takayna Trail ultra-marathon.
FT are working against the interests of the North West community by denying organisers of the takayna Trail 2021 access to the public lands they manage.
At the end of NAIDOC Week when we looked in the Budget papers we saw a $300 000 allocation to advance the tracks through the Tarkine.
Aboriginal heritage protection is still often treated as an afterthought or, at worst, ignored in place like the Tarkine.
It’s encouraging to hear Premier Gutwein sound genuine about reconciliation and land returns for this island’s First People.
After six years in government, no real progress has been made on returning land to Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
The plea from 23 GP's, registrars, and emergency doctors to protect Tasmania's high conservation value forests should be heeded by all Members of Parliament.
Within 24 hours of the Government abusing the law to target protesters in the Tarkine, pro-logging thugs attacked those same peaceful protesters overnight.
The presence of activists in takayna/Tarkine is clearly making a big impact on planned logging operations in the region.
The logging of ancient rainforest ecosystems in the Tarkine is utterly unjustifiable on environmental, social and economic grounds.
