Tasmanian Times
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4.1KProtect North-West Forests Sounds Alarm on Leven Canyon Logging
Media release – Protect Our North West Forests, 7 May 2025 Leven Canyon: planned reserve extension set to be logged See this?...
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‘Saving the Last Giants’ Documentary (English)
In 2013, with support from the Australian government, the major forestry companies in Tasmania submitted an unusual request to UNESCO: to declassify...
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Southern Right Whale Population Recovery has Stalled
Australia’s population of southern right whales has experienced substantial growth since the late 1970s when they began to recover from whaling, but...
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Review: Vaccine Nation by Raina McIntyre
Epidemiologist and biosecurity expert, Professor Raina McIntyre, has written a terrific new book, Vaccine Nation, which celebrates medical science, then highlights the...
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Fire Season Overlap Threatens Firefighting Efforts
Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in many regions of the world. This is due partly to specific weather conditions...
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East and West Tasmania Were Once Separate – Here’s How They Collided
Tasmania’s geological history is far more dramatic than most people realise. Over 400 million years ago, this island was not a single...
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2025 Rural Health Issues Survey Report
Overworked rural doctors are demanding greater funding and resources to improve staffing levels and hospital facilities in some of the country’s most...
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Sick & Deformed Salmon Filmed in Macquarie Harbour
The Green Britain Foundation (GBF) has released the first video footage documenting sick and diseased factory farmed salmon in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour. The...
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Humpback Whale Killed In Krill Supertrawler
Media Release — Bob Brown Foundation 24 April 2025 Humpback whale killed in krill supertrawler net yet further evidence that industrial...
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Eighty Buses to Move Just 6,000 Fans to Stadium
The Tasmanian Planning Commission Report into the proposed Major Stadium at Macquarie Point has highlighted the vast disparity between the wishful thinking...
