Tasmanian Times
Environment
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82390% of submissions to Tasmanian fracking review say No!
The vast majority of those who wrote submissions to the government review on fracking in Tasmania sounded a loud and clear ‘No’...
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Fox Scientists: Both Sides Stumped?
PREAMBLE: Officially, the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre (IA-CRC), has seemed unwilling to consider that fox scats, imported from the mainland for...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (46)
Vern Hansson’s amazing picture of a black-headed honeyeater feeding a pallid cuckoo … The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and...
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Spotted Handfish for Tasmanian animal emblem … ?
Matthew Groom (Minister for Environment, Parks and Heritage) reckons it would be a good idea to make the Tasmanian Devil the official...
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The ad Doritos doesn’t want you to see!
Watch here
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Bob Brown: Wilderness degradation should lead to unique label being dropped
*Pic: Wilderness photographer Rob Blakers’ classic shot of the Upper Florentine Forests (?) Jet skis to churn up Bathurst Harbour Elder environmentalist...
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Wilderness – going, going, gone!
Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife are on the verge of releasing their draft WHA (World Heritage Area) management plan, and it seems the...
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Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought
As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has...
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It’s time to stop lighting fires
Bill Gammage’s popular book ‘The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia’ contains many fundamental flaws and represents ‘blind advocacy’ for...
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The Truth About Ta Ann. ‘The biggest environmental crime of our times’
*Pic: Abdul Taib Mahmud … A sad tale of the Asian timber mafia and the man who did more than anything to...
