Tasmanian Times
Forestry
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1.6KForestry Tasmania’s final report: The Billion Dollar Loss
*Pic: Matt Newton, http://www.matthewnewton.com.au/ First published November 9 A survey of the wreckage left behind by Forestry Tasmania (FT) reveals since its...
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The Embalmer from Burnie who Buried the Liberal Party …
*Pic: This entry on the Geni website is managed by Stephen Shane Parry now the ex President of the Senate. It describes...
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‘Sam’ and ‘Brad’ tell it like it isn’t …
ABC pic of Sam McQuestin. Resources Minister Guy Barnett is in the background (looking at Sam). Brad Stansfield Brad Stansfield on Twitter,...
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The exotic plantation curse: an environmental and fiscal catastrophe …
*Pic: The once vast native grasslands, now denuded and converted into a biological desert. Surrey Hills. First published October 25 Almost 3...
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An apocalyptic future … ?
After some three years of frustration with Forestry Tasmania, the Forestry Practices Authority and the Minister, I penned the post below to...
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World’s wilderness at further risk
*Pic: Ted Mead – Sunset over a volcanic rim in Eastern Indonesia. Pic – Ted Mead – Australia’s desert wilderness in bloom...
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‘Environment Groups condemn Tasmania’s plan to log oldgrowth rainforest reserves’
*Pic: Wasted celery top logs in the Styx. Pic: Vica Bayley Pre-burn. Pic: Vica Bayley Rob Blakers pic ( https://www.robblakers.com/ ) of...
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Who is more clever, a teeny-tiny glider or a fancy bird scientist?
How can we keep the evil yet adorable sugar glider from eating all the swift parrots? Here’s where Operation PKO and you...
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‘Over-the-top and unnecessary … ‘
*Pic: Bob Brown and Jessica Hoyt in front of the High Court during the appeal … Civil Liberties Australia welcomes the decision...
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TARKINE: Why the Tasmanian Forest Intergovernmental Agreement got it wrong …
*Pic: An epiphytic draped blackwood tree in the Tarkine rainforest Without question the Independent Verification Group (IVG) undertook some great assessment work,...
