Tasmanian Times
Knowledge
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857Until it’s gone
Earlier this month, Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands was identified as one of 20 locations around the world where it was...
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Pesticides and fruit and veg
ARTICLES on this matter have recently appeared in The Guardian newspaper: Is Organic worth it?: www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/O..1743666.00.html And Choice magazine: Pesticides in our...
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Fox believer
MY wife and I have been members of the Wildcare group, Friends of Lillico Penguins, for three years. On Monday evenings during...
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Fox sceptic
SOME biologists are convinced that foxes have established in Tasmania. In 1998 a fox travelled on a freight ferry across Bass Strait...
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Beatles, Brahms and Blackbirds
ALTHOUGH I write the “One the Wing” bird column in The Mercury, this is not my day job. I’m actually a sub-editor...
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My call to the spray complaints unit
I called the Spray Complaints Unit in Tasmania today and spoke to Peter Lee Archer. I asked a number of questions related...
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Into the Florentine
Eagle: Photo under zoom reveals a young eagle, centre, says TWS. FORESTRY Tasmania has declared 400 hectares of the scenic Upper Florentine...
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Lifting the smoke-screen
ONLY days after the state election Hobart was covered in a pall of smoke from a forestry burn-off. Likewise days before the...
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Foxes and 1080
Has anyone, like me, wondered whether the nearly 60 years of 1080 use against Tasmania’s browsing herbivores* — possums and wallabies —...
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Forests protected: another tall story
TWO days after the election the police moved into the Styx Valley to apprehend a small band of protesters. An arrest was...
