Tasmanian Times
Environment
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887Macquarie Island declared pest free after 7-year eradication program
The World Heritage-listed Macquarie Island has been declared free of pests after a near seven-year campaign to eradicate it of rats, rabbits...
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Forests: Reality bites for Paul and Will …
• Eye of the storm … Resources Minister Paul Harriss with Premier Will Hodgman. Mr Harris is reported as saying the Liberal...
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Japanese whalers plan return to hunt. Abbott turns a blind eye.
Senator Peter Whish-Wilson responds to the news that Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research has used court proceedings in the United States against...
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Tasmanian tiger’s ancient relative a fearsome killer
Nimbacinus dicksoni (left) and the Tasmanian tiger (right) The grainy black and white images linger in the memory, a strange long jawed...
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400,000 hectares of Tasmanian forests to be logged, not reserved
Quarantining Forestry Tasmania from managing the logging in the short term is a tricky attempt to secure FSC certification regardless The forest...
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Shree Minerals admits acid-producing waste to be twenty times higher than approvals for Tarkine mine
A Shree Minerals document obtained from the EPA by Save the Tarkine under a Right to Information request has disclosed that Shree...
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Kim Booth takes command …
Statement on Tasmanian Greens Leadership Australian Greens Leader Senator Christine Milne today congratulated Kim Booth on becoming Leader of the Tasmanian Greens...
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More Tasmanian jobs threatened by PM Abbott’s environmental assault
Tony Abbott’s so-called “government of no surprises” has been turned on its head again by revelations that savage cuts will be made...
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Voters punish major parties in WA … Meanwhile, in Tasmania …
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam and Palmer United party’s Dio Wang both set to secure spots, along with two Liberals and one Labor...
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We must have the Precious Forests
First it’s our Free Speech … then it’s our Forests …Must have the precious Liberal Senators Abetz, Bushby, Colbeck and Parry: Tasmania...
