In 2013, with support from the Australian government, the major forestry companies in Tasmania submitted an unusual request to UNESCO: to declassify thousands of hectares of old-growth forest.
The appetite of these unscrupulous industrialists scandalised the entire world, triggering an unprecedented mobilisation to save the immense Tasmanian rain forest.
Standing on a rocky spur on the Southern Ocean, the Tasmanian forest is home to some of the world’s oldest species of plants and animals. A legacy of an exceptional geological history, this large Australian island is an extraordinary conservatory of Atlantic biodiversity: for scientists, the value of its large pines and giant eucalyptus trees is incalculable.
Activists, descendents of the Aborigines and the first lumberjacks have come together to save one of the world’s unique natural heritages.
Documentary: REINVENTING FORESTS – Tasmania, Saving The Last Giants
Directed by: Guy Beauché, Gil Kebaïli, Luc Marescot & Stéphane Jacques
Production: DOCSIDE, ARTE France
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