Jenny Weber, The Bob Brown Foundation
TARKINE IS TASMANIA’S NEXT BIG TOURISM DRAWCARD – BOB BROWN
Bob Brown always says that ‘to see the Tarkine is to want to save it’. With this in mind, a major campaign effort this year at the Bob Brown Foundation has been compiling and publishing a guide to touring, bushwalking and rafting in this remarkable place, the Tarkine. takayna makuminya / Tarkine Trails will be launched this week in Hobart and Launceston.
“Across mountains, down rivers, along coasts, through forests: Tarkine Trails / takayna makuminya, with its splendid photographs and maps, is the definitive guide for adventurers to the Tarkine as well as for browsers at home wanting the pleasures of wild Tasmania on their coffee table. Here is a welcome to one of Australia’s least known yet most beautiful natural and cultural treasures,” Bob Brown said.
Tarkine Trails / takayna makuminya has 100 bushwalking trails complete with colour maps, 10 mountain bike trails and 17 paddling trips. This definitive guide has contributions from more than 30 experts including lead author Phill Pullinger, a foreword and case for conservation chapter by Bob Brown, an introduction by Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary’s owner Greg Irons, and an essay on Aboriginal Heritage of takayna / Tarkine written by Ruth Langford. The guide is an updated version of Bob Brown’s 1993 guide book to the Tarkine.
Bob Brown Foundation’s Campaign Manager Jenny Weber has been the project manager for the book, “Our new comprehensive guide-book will open the Tarkine to more visitors seeking adventure tourism in Tasmania’s wild places like never before. We have had more than 60 people involved in the book, including track testers, a map maker, photographers, a talented design team and writers on natural and cultural values of the Tarkine. Our Foundation has successfully crowdfunded more than $60 000 to raise the funds required to published and distribute this book,” Jenny Weber said.
“In the Tarkine, giant eucalyptus forests grow side by side with Australia’s largest temperate rainforest. Wild rivers flow between mountain ranges, through expansive button-grass plains and flowering coastal heaths to a rugged coastline of windswept beaches, towering sand dunes and extraordinary Aboriginal cultural sites. Yet the Tarkine’s natural and cultural values are under threat from a string of proposed mines, logging in ancient rainforests and unrestricted access for off-road vehicles, damaging indigenous heritage.”
“Bob Brown Foundation is working to have the Tarkine protected from these destructive impacts and gain secure protection as a National Park and World Heritage Area,” Jenny Weber said.
News outlets wishing to review the book please contact Jenny Weber ph 0427 366 929 or [email protected]
BOOK LAUNCHES
Friday 11.12.15 at Fullers Bookshop in Hobart 5:15pm for 5:30pm – Launched by Bob Brown and Phill Pullinger
Sunday 13.12.15 at Petrarch’s Bookshop in Launceston at 3pm – Launched by Bob Brown and Senator Peter Whish-Wilson
Monday 21.12.15 Just Books at Burnie at 5:15pm – Launched by Phill Pullinger and Nicole Anderson
