Bob Brown Foundation in Hobart, Tasmania | Environmental conservation organisation

Bob Brown Foundation

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6294 0620

Address: Level 4, 116 Bathurst St 7000 Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.bobbrown.org.au

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25.01.2022 Elsewhere in takayna/Tarkine this weekend a group of high liners have joined the Big Canopy Campout. Camped out in the tall Eucalyptus forest of remote southern Tarkine, these forests are also threatened by logging this summer. We will take action to defend these forests from logging if the bulldozers return.... #bobbrownfoundation #bigcanopycampout #takayna #Tarkine

24.01.2022 The plight of the critically endangered swift parrot, already threatening to curtail Tasmanian native forest logging, is far more precarious than thought, prompting experts to demand urgent habitat protection. Dr Stojanovic told The Australian the findings were shocking. It’s the outcome of decades of forestry mismanagement. You don’t get to this level by taking care of a species; you get to it by decades of wilful destruction of habitat. https://www.theaustralian.com.au//40332fdac0aa65b654019f4d

24.01.2022 Tasmanian Loggers face Federal Court injunction The Bob Brown Foundation will apply for an interlocutory (immediate) injunction to stop Sustainable Timber Tasmania logging the forest habitat of species facing extinction. Mr Ron Merkel QC notified the Federal Court of the foundation's bid for the injunction today. The application will be filed next week. ... Bob Brown said it is urgent because the critically endangered Swift Parrot is currently arriving in Tasmania’s forests to feed and breed. In the court today, before Justice Duncan Kerr, it was agreed to a further hearing next Friday of the foundation's case that the Regional Forest Agreement is illegal. Bob Brown said he was enlivened by the Tasmanian Solicitor-General telling the court he foresaw the case being appealed to the High Court if the loggers lose in the Federal court.

24.01.2022 We have launched a new crowdfunding campaign to support our stand against native forest logging that is occurring all over Australia. Every single pledge will help this become the huge national campaign it must be to succeed. And succeed it must. It may take time but with your support, we will Save Australia’s Native Forests. Pledge here: https://www.pozible.com/profile/bob-brown-foundation

23.01.2022 INCREDIBLE ANCIENT RAINFOREST OCCUPIED FOR BIG CANOPY CAMPOUT 2020 We have set up in a takayna / Tarkine rainforest for The Big Canopy Campout. We are spending the next two nights in the canopy, this ancient rainforest is on the proposed logging schedule and will be in the international spotlight as the world of climbers highlights takayna / Tarkine in the Big Canopy Campout ... Our campaign team has headed into the forests, including Jenny Weber, Erik Hayward, Scott Jordan and Jen Sanger with a great community of Forest Defenders. Photographs by Steve Pearce from The Tree Projects & other fine photographers.

22.01.2022 Good morning from our Big Canopy Campout in takayna/Tarkine. We are so excited to have more than forty people here with us and across the globe in trees. These ancient forests are threatened by logging and this years global Campout was fundraising for us to fight for these forests. We have friends in Germany, Russia, Japan, Fiji, UK, across Australia and 18 more countries who have camped out last night for the Big Canopy Campout 2020.... #bigcanopycampout #takayna #Tarkine

20.01.2022 Australia - it's time to end native forest logging. We are launching a new national campaign to Save Australia's Native Forests and wildlife. We need you to chip in to support this critical campaign and share our crowdfunder @Pozible https://www.pozible.com/profile/bob-brown-foundation

20.01.2022 Angry that the State Bank of India could be financing Adani’s Carmichael mine, campaigners in the Indian state of Goa have protested outside the bank’s offices. The action coincided with protests occurring in Australia and around the world. The protesters urged the SBI to reject Adani, terming the proposed loan ‘akin to funding the destruction of our planet and the extinction of our species.’ Goa is threatened by plans to turn the seaside Indian province into a colossal coal... hub, so solidarity is developing between Australia and Goa. #AdaniWatch #StopAdani https://www.adaniwatch.org/stopadani_protest_targets_state_

20.01.2022 We are so thankful to Patagonia for giving us a platform to talk about our Great Forest Case, Action for Earth and our new campaign to Save Australia's Native Forests and Wildlife. Read the latest Roaring Journal from our Campaign Manager Jenny Weber https://www.patagonia.com.au//roarin/the-great-forest-case

19.01.2022 Our Great Forest Case covered by The Mercury Newspaper Bob Brown Foundation wages historic logging battle in the Federal Court as time runs out for the Swift parrot. The ‘Great Forest Case’ war waged as ... ANU difficult bird research group experts reveal parrot numbers dwindle. https://www.themercury.com.au//45f39adc5b4c0600a23b6f41cb4 Photograph by Tim Cooper - Swift Parrot in Eastern Tiers permanent logging zone just last week.

19.01.2022 For the sake of all life on Earth, native forest logging must end now, so Bob Brown Foundation is launching a new national campaign to Save Australia's Native Forests. To raise the $100,000 we need for this game-changing campaign, we have just launched a new crowdfunding campaign. Every pledge, large or small, will help us reach our target of $100,000 and an end to native forest logging, once and for all.... Pledge at: https://www.pozible.com/profile/bob-brown-foundation

19.01.2022 BOB BROWN FOUNDATION ENTERS SWIFT PARROT DEBATE OVER ST HELENS HABITAT CONTROVERSY Important note a MINOR realignment of the road by a few metres could avoid need to clear foraging and nesting habitat for Swift Parrot. Campaigner Jenny Weber wants to know where alternative nesting sites are for the swift parrt at St Helens on Tasmania's East Coast.... The foundation has written to Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley about the matter after it was revealed that nesting hollows had been blocked near St Helens in preparation for road upgrades to the Tasman Highway. Foundation campaign manager Jenny Weber said Environment Minister Roger Jaensch should name the alternative breeding sites for the swift parrots. "Where is this critically endangered species going to find alternative sites?" Ms Weber asked. "This is the same government to which the Federal Environment Minister is pushing to devolve commonwealth environmental protection and conservation responsibility under the changes to the EPBC Act. "Sussan Ley intends to devolve responsibility to a man who blocks nesting sites for a critically endangered species." In State Parliament, Mr Jaensch said the Department of State Growth was committed to carefully managing any environmental impact of delivering infrastructure improvements. "It is about getting in before the breeding season, closing off some possible breeding sites that they may have started to build their nests in, and diverting them to other ones, so they can breed away from areas that are going to be disturbed," he said. "This is our government following good process yet again and taking proactive action to ensure that these threatened birds can find themselves a safe breeding place this season." By Sue Bailey for the Examiner https://www.examiner.com.au//bob-brown-foundation-enters-/

18.01.2022 Labor just voted with the Liberals to allow Major Projects to sidestep reserve protections. The government's Major Projects Bill will allow approvals for projects that are inconsistent with reserve management plans, including in our National Parks and in Wellington Park. What a shameful betrayal of our wild places. It is urgent to contact upper house MP's immediately as appeal rights still to be voted on later today. Take Action here https://majorprojectsbill.good.do/labor-pleasedontbackdown/

18.01.2022 Grant Dixon’s WINTER LIGHT displays superb photographs of wild and remote Tasmania in its most splendid season. WINTER LIGHT will be taken down time and again from the centre of this wilderness-lover’s bookshelf. Bob Brown You can pre-order the book here - https://chuffed.org//winter-light-photo-book-by-grant-dixon Read more here.... https://themountainjournal.wordpress.com//winter-light-t/ See more

18.01.2022 The court hearing for The Great Forest Case starts tomorrow, Wednesday 2nd December. The Great Forest Case is the best chance in a generation of ending native forest logging. It will be a history-making event and we encourage you to join in and be part of it. There are several ways you can join in on the action:... Join online: You can watch the hearing online. It will start at 10.15am on Wednesday 2nd: https://www.bobbrown.org.au/event_23112020_01 Watch with us: We will also be screening the hearing from our office in Hobart: https://fb.me/e/1MCAX3wo8 Join the webinar: No time to watch the whole case? Join us for a follow up webinar on Friday: https://fb.me/e/3OiLwzIj7 It’s time to put an end to the destruction of native forests.

17.01.2022 AAP story on our first court appearance today. Our legal challenge against Tasmanian logging is set to escalate, after we asked our lawyers for an urgent injunction to protect critically endangered Swift parrots. https://nz.news.yahoo.com/ex-mps-quest-save-endangered-parr... #politas

17.01.2022 Conservationists ask Tasmanian Minister: Where will Swift Parrots go? Bob Brown Foundation has today called on Tasmanian Minister Roger Jaensch to name the alternative breeding sites for the critically endangered Swift Parrot after he has closed off some of their possible breeding sites on Tasmania’s east coast. Minister Jaensch is today quoted in a Tasmanian daily explaining that blocking the possible breeding sites for road expansions is to ‘divert’ the birds 'so they can ...breed away from areas that are going to be disturbed.' Like where Minister Jaensch? Where is this critically endangered species going to find alternative sites? asked Bob Brown Foundation’s campaign manager Jenny Weber. This is the same government to which the Federal Environment Minister is pushing to devolve Commonwealth environmental protection and conservation responsibility under the changes to the EPBC Act. Sussan Ley intends to devolve responsibility to a man who blocks nesting sites for a critically endangered species, Jenny Weber said.

17.01.2022 Bob Brown Foundation has stopped logging in forest that is Swift Parrot habitat on Tasmania’s east coast. We are carrying out a citizen science project these coming weeks to monitor Swift Parrot habitat in Tasmania’s threatened forests, said Jenny Weber, Campaign Manager Bob Brown Foundation. Today in the Eastern Tiers we have stopped logging. It is up to Premier Gutwein to now move these native forest loggers into plantations and out of this critically endangered Swift Pa...rrot habitat, Ms Weber said from inside the logging area. The last wild forests for the critically endangered Swift Parrot need urgent protection in secure conservation reserves. All logging in native forests needs to cease for climate, environmental and biodiversity benefits. We will spend the next two days in the Eastern Tiers surveying for Swift Parrots, and we have more surveys planned in the coming weeks as the Swift parrot settles into breed," Ms Weber concluded.

16.01.2022 AAP news coverage of our Great Forest Case and the horror news today about the declining Swift parrots. Fewer than 300 critically endangered Swift parrots could remain in Australia, a new study has revealed on the day a court challenge began against logging in their Tasmanian habitat. "In this era of the human-induced extinction crisis, this deliberate extinguishment of a species' right to exist is appalling and unforgivable," Bob Brown said.... The Bob Brown Foundation claims the Tasmanian forest agreement doesn't enforce national environmental protections, including for threatened species, as required by legislation. It was the intention of the legislation to protect rare and endangered species, Mr Merkel said. He said protections should be provided against harm being caused, rather than to provide a remedy only after the harm has been done. https://au.news.yahoo.com/parrots-dwindle-court-examines-fo

16.01.2022 Forest Defenders: The fight to protect Tasmania’s native forests, takes you straight to the frontline where ordinary people are stepping up, joining Bob Brown Foundation to protect some of the most incredible forests in the world from the archaic practice of native forest logging.

15.01.2022 Tomorrow is the day we have been waiting for: the hearing for the Great Forest Case. We have already had big win for the case, as we were able to put an injunction on 850 ha of prime swift parrot habitat. If we win this case, we will be seeking an injunction on all of Tasmania’s forests to prevent logging without Federal Environmental Minister’s approval. ... You can join in on the action and watch the case online: https://www.bobbrown.org.au/event_23112020_01 Or catch us for our follow up webinar: https://fb.me/e/3OiLwzIj7 The Great Forest Case is the best chance in a generation to end native forest logging.

15.01.2022 Our BioBlitzes are an exciting, three day festival of citizen science in nature. Over the past five years, we have taken over 500 scientists, supporters and volunteers into the Tarkine landscape to observe and record more than 1800 species of flora, fauna, fungi and more. Join us this year between the 12th and 15th of November, tickets here: https://www.bobbrown.org.au/bioblitz_2020

15.01.2022 Global Canopy Campout to aid Australia’s largest temperate rainforest in takayna / Tarkine this Saturday night. Bob Brown Foundation is hosting the Big Canopy Campout in Tasmania’s takayna / Tarkine this weekend, one of 107 campouts across 24 different countries including England, Scotland, Germany, Russia, Taipai, Borneo, Malaysia, Costa Rica, America, Belgium, France, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand and Japan, that will focus their attention on Australia’s largest temperate rai...nforest. Tasmania’s takayna / Tarkine is a global treasure but sadly its ancient rainforests and tall eucalypts are still threatened by logging. Our campaign to defend and protect Australia’s largest temperate rainforest will be on the main stage this weekend for the global Big Canopy Campout. It is not only the canopies that people camp in for this global event. This year due to COVID, the event is also having camp-ins and building indoor forts. Participants across the globe will stay in and connect with the canopy campers through our online event on Saturday evening. "Big Canopy Campout has had the privilege of the Bob Brown Foundation’s support since it began in 2017 and they continue to inspire our community of forest ambassadors with their consistent and determined frontline action protecting the environment. Their grassroots activism based on a solid foundation of science and research is exactly the kind of organisation that BCC wishes to stand alongside in our bid to promote people and projects protecting the future of our forests, Vicki Tough said, spokesperson for the Big Canopy Campout. Big Canopy Campout is a means to connect these people, share their stories and celebrate the local successes on a global scale. There is no doubt of the importance of forests for the future of our planet, not to mention our own health and happiness. This annual event allows us the opportunity to take positive action literally in your back garden! Vicki Tough said. ONLINE WEBINAR Join our online webinar on Saturday night and you can hear from the canopies around the globe including Australia's threatened forests. https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_yEpLfw7BRByYrS-sK08huw Media Statement here https://www.bobbrown.org.au/mr_13102020 Big Canopy Campout 2020 The Big Canopy Campout group La Gran Acampada Arbórea ~ The Big Canopy Campout #bigcanopycampout #forests #takayna #Tarkine #treeclimbing #treeclimber #zoom #bobbrownfoundation #nativeforests #protectnativeforests #endnativeforestlogging #EndLogging #activism #wildlife #canopy

15.01.2022 "The plight of the critically endangered Swift Parrot, as outlined by Australian National University researchers and published in Animal Conservation today, is horrific. Whereas a decade ago there was alarm at the estimates of 1000 pairs of remaining Swift Parrots, the news of ‘less than 300’ individuals is notice of a death spiral. And a chief villain here is the Tasmanian government’s logging of the parrots’ nesting sites; the flattening and incineration of native forests... at the expense of jobs in the island’s burgeoning tourism and hospitality industries. Taxpayers are having their pockets robbed to pay for the forests and these birds’ destruction. Bob Brown The news came as Bob Brown Foundation’s challenge to Tasmania’s Regional Forest Agreement began before the full bench of the Federal Court. Read the full media release here: https://www.bobbrown.org.au/mr_02122020

14.01.2022 Hear from folks straight from the canopies for the Big Canopy Campout. Speakers our Campaign Organiser Erik in takayna/Tarkine, Tasmania, Folks from Frontline Action on Coal at Camp Binbee, Vicki in Germany and Syd in UK from The Big Canopy Campout, Brad and Atalaya in Victoria. We also hear from friends in Russia and New Zealand.... And videos from Big Canopy Campouts in threatened forests in Victoria, including the Wombat state forests and Djab Wurrung Heritage Protection Embassy and from NSW in Gladstone State Forests where the Gumbaynggirr Conservation Group are defending forests. #bigcanopycampout #takayna #Tarkine #FrontlineActiononCoal #StopAdani

13.01.2022 Every forest that still stands is a lifeboat for our iconic wildlife including Leadbeaters Possum, Koalas, Swift Parrots, Quolls, Tasmanian Devils and Wedge-tailed Eagles. Bob Brown Foundation is taking on the destroyers, launching a campaign to end native forest logging - once and for all. But we still need to raise the funds for this campaign and that's why we have launched a Pozible crowdfunder. Every single pledge will help this become the huge national campaign it must b...e to succeed. Pledge here: https://www.pozible.com/profile/bob-brown-foundation

12.01.2022 Polls show that most Australians do not want Adani's mine but it is not visible in the politics there. Bob believes that Australia needs dissidents like Ben Pennings to agitate on behalf of the country. #AdaniWatch #StopAdani https://www.bbc.com/hindi/international-54334842

11.01.2022 Day two of the Big Canopy Campout here in threatened takayna / Tarkine. A big day up in the tree tops for some and down a little lower with tree climb training for a new group of budding activists. You can support out frontline actions by pledging to our crowdfunder here: pozible.com/profile/bob-brown-foundation/rewards... #bigcanopycampout #treeclimbing #takayna #BobBrown #BobBrownFoundation #DiscoverTasmania #nologging #climateaction Photos @timcooper_photo The Tree Projects

11.01.2022 We've just hit the 70% mark thanks to you, our wonderful supporters. We still have $30,000 to raise in just 8 days to meet our all-or-nothing crowdfunding goal. Pledge what you can here: https://www.pozible.com/profile/bob-brown-foundation

11.01.2022 We had another directions hearing today for our Great Forest Case and it was a breakthrough for the Swift Parrots. Read below. Critically endangered Tasmanian parrots will be able to breed in peace over the coming months after loggers agreed to postpone activities in native habitat. Former Greens leader Bob Brown had flagged plans for an urgent injunction on logging activities in old growth forests to protect the swift parrot.... State-owned logging group Sustainable Timber Tasmania was due to undertake logging activities in parrot habitat, but Mr Brown's lawyer Ron Merkel QC told the Federal Court that it could disrupt the bird's breeding season from September to January. https://nz.news.yahoo.com/tas-loggers-agree-delay-parrots-0

11.01.2022 We are in the canopies of takayna / Tarkine's ancient rainforest for Big Canopy Campout This is the world’s largest aerial camping events in the history of forest defence as climbers take to the canopies around the globe and Australia to highlight the importance of Earth’s intact native forests. Hear straight from the takayna canopy from our Campaign Organiser Erik Hayward.

10.01.2022 In 2015, a political scandal erupted in New Delhi over a proposed loan from the State Bank of India to Adani for its massive Carmichael coal mine. Why would a publicly owned bank lend a billion dollars for a billionaire’s development outside of India? Now the proposed loan and the scandal have been revived. Protests have occurred outside SBI banks in Australia, the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Fiji and India. #AdaniWatch #StopAdani... https://www.adaniwatch.org/has_state_bank_of_india_approved

09.01.2022 BIG CANOPY CAMPOUT Join our webinar on Saturday evening 6pm Guest speakers will be folks from the threatened forests canopies in Tasmania, elsewhere across Australia and from canopies in Japan, UK, Fiji, and New Zealand. Register here https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_yEpLfw7BRByYrS-sK08huw... We are heading into Tasmania’s takayna / Tarkine to join 107 campouts across 24 different countries including England, Scotland, Germany, Russia, Taipai, Borneo, Malaysia, Costa Rica, America, Belgium, France, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand and Japan, that will focus their attention on Australia’s largest temperate rainforest. Big Canopy Campout is a means to connect these people, share their stories and celebrate the local successes on a global scale. There is no doubt of the importance of forests for the future of our planet, not to mention our own health and happiness. ONLINE WEBINAR Join our online webinar on Saturday night and you can hear from the canopies around the globe including Australia's threatened forests. Register here https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_yEpLfw7BRByYrS-sK08huw #bigcanopycampout #forests #takayna #Tarkine #treeclimbing #treeclimber #zoom #bobbrownfoundation #nativeforests #protectnativeforests #endnativeforestlogging #EndLogging #activism #wildlife #canopy Threatened rainforest in takayna / Tarkine by Rob Blakers

09.01.2022 The sun has set on Australia’s Big Canopy Campout while our friends in the northern hemisphere are just getting down out of the canopies and packing up. What an outstanding success for 2020 and putting a spotlight on the threatened takayna/Tarkine. Thank you and good night from the wild and threatened canopy to all our supporters.... #BigCanopyCampout #takayna #Tarkine

07.01.2022 BIG Announcement - we are launching an Antarctica Campaign. First step is recruiting a campaigner to join our team. This position honours Louise Crossley, scientist and Antarctic Station Leader, who was dedicated to protecting Antarctica and left a generous gift in her will to support this campaign. Campaigner position description here.... https://www.ethicaljobs.com.au//louise-crossley-antarctic- https://www.theaustralian.com.au//60c547d1f532197329046372

07.01.2022 WE ARE BACK AT MARTIN PL. FOR KOALAS Stopping the koala kill bill last week gave the koala small reprieve, but we continue to have very little protection for our iconic animal. Continuing to pressure the government and alerting the public about this ongoing crisis are essential. ... Our weekly vigils for the Koala at Martin Place were joined by Sydney's Red Rebels who are staging a colourful and stark display for koalas. While we had a small win last week in the Upper House, the fight is far from over. Let's save our koalas! Unless native forest logging & habitat clearing is stopped, koalas will soon be extinct. Let’s keep up pressure to make sure koalas are saved. Today’s Koala vigil was joined by Janet Laurence, one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists & Greens MP Cate Faerhmann. It’s also the International Day of Action on Forest Biomass #forestsarenotfuel. If Australia doesn’t protect native forests and Koala habitat the precious forest koala habitats could be burnt in climate-wrecking forest furnaces. Time to protect Australia’s native forests and go Beyond Burning fossil fuels and forest biomass! Sign the petition https://bit.ly/2IE9AZq #saveourkoalas #koalasneedforests #stoplogging #greatkoalanationalpark

06.01.2022 We have launched the Great Forest Case, the best chance in a generation to end native forest logging in Tasmania & potentially across Australia once and for all. We want to strike down the inadequate RFA & protect endangered species. #politas #GreatForestCase

06.01.2022 We have launched a national campaign to Save Australia's Native Forests, which is a huge undertaking with a big price tag to match. The funds raised in this crowdfunder will pay for these essential components of our campaign to ensure it has the maximum impact in the months ahead. Help us reach our goal by 8pm next Saturday night, 24th of October. ... Pledge here: https://www.pozible.com/profile/bob-brown-foundation #bobbrown #nologging #climateaction #pozible #crowdfunder #crowdfunding #nativeforests #swiftparrot #greatnativeforestcase

05.01.2022 Public outcry at Hobart base for expanding plunder of Antartica’s Oceans A group of Hobartians gathered this morning at the dockside where the new longline fishing vessel Antarctic Aurora is docked and preparing to wallop sub-Antarctic fisheries off Australia’s World Heritage Macquarie, Heard and McDonald Islands. In a world which has the majority of its fisheries collapsed or in rapid decline, the waters off these remote islands should be marine national parks. The long lin...es involve thousands of hooks spaced a metre apart, and the destination is the plates of China and the USA. We aim to put a public focus on the growing global tide of profiteering from the Antarctic and its oceans, Jenny Weber from Bob Brown Foundation said. This vessel operating out of Hobart is longline, legal and lethal. Our aim is to protect the world’s last wild fisheries from plunder. The public has a right to know that Hobart is being used as a base for the expanding looting of the Antarctic marine ecosystem, she said "The Antarctic Aurora can drop 60,000 hooks into the pristine waters of the Antarctic to hunt for the toothfish. Antarctica’s oceans and wildlife need protection in secure marine reserves. The toothfish can live 3000m deep in icy waters and live to 50 years old. It shouldn’t be hunted with tens of thousands of hooks which can also kill sea birds, sharks and other species."

05.01.2022 It’s the International Day of Action on Forest Biomass #forestsarenotfuel. Time to go Beyond Burning fossil fuels and forest biomass! Sign the petition https://bit.ly/2IE9AZq Forests are not fuel - International Day of Action protest in Hobart Community members are this morning gathering at Tasmanian Executive Building calling for the protection of native forests and the ruling out of forest biomass burning.... Joining an International Day of Action on Forest Biomass Energy, Bob Brown Foundation is holding a snap action in Hobart to call for an end to subsidies and incentives for burning forest wood, for it to be excluded from renewable energy targets and for the protection and restoration of native forests to be prioritised for wildlife survival, climate benefits and biodiversity. Forests are not fuel. The world needs its forests for climate, community and biodiversity. Today’s international effort is focused on Europe, calling on the EU and its member countries to halt their unacceptable large scale biomass burning from forests and communities suffering the impacts. Here in Hobart, we are calling on our Premier Gutwein to rule out burning forests in furnaces for energy. It is a false and damaging climate solution, Bob Brown Foundation’s Campaign Manager Jenny Weber said.

05.01.2022 Our Great Forest Case in the Federal Court has concluded - now we await judgment. The Bob Brown Foundation's challenge to the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement in the Federal Court concluded this afternoon. "In view of the onrush to extinction caused by the destruction of Australia's forests and woodlands, this is a huge test of whether the national government's stated aim to have 'ecologically sustainable forest management' is real or a farce," Bob Brown said. The news tod...ay is that Swift parrots are in a spiral dive towards extinction, ANU experts recorded there are just 300 Swift parrots left in the wild. The BBF maintains that the RFA Act terms 'ecological sustainable forest management' and 'Comprehensive Adequate Reserve' provisions should mean what they say. 'Instead, we have the onrush of extinctions because of forest habitats being destroyed, needlessly, day by day in Australia's forests and woodlands' Bob Brown said. In the Great Forest Case taken by the Bob Brown Foundation the defence - Commonwealth, State and Sustainable Timber Tasmania - maintained that the Tasmanian RFA contains 'non enforceable legal obligations'. Mr Ron Merkel QC, acting for the BBF, said that leaving Tasmanian authorities to have unconditional 'discretion' in forest management, as in the RFA Act amended in 2017, was not what the federal statutory regime intended. He said the Commonwealth law either required real protection to be delivered by the RFA, or it required nothing more than a piece of paper called an RFA. Mr Merkel said the position was clear: the RFA was to deliver real protection.

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04.01.2022 Conservationists need to get serious about storage. What’s best, worst and most viable in transition to 100% renewables. Read our report here: https://www.bobbrown.org.au/gnews_180920 #politas #auspol #climate #renewables... https://www.theaustralian.com.au//9ea54b42bcfd68a40b87e03f

04.01.2022 The countdown is on. Only ten days left for us to raise over $51,000 to meet our all-or-nothing crowdfunding goal. We have a few great last minute prizes including "Hidden Vale", poems and music by Bob Brown with Steve Crump and Monique Brumby. Available by pledging here: https://www.pozible.com/profile/bob-brown-foundation... #crowdfunding #pozible #poetryandmusic #climateaction #takayna #nologging #nonativeforestlogging

04.01.2022 Sign the Declaration to Save Australia's native forests and wildlife. There has never been a campaign like this - it is time for end-game. The Australian Native Forest Declaration is the first of its kind in our nation. ... Add your name here https://www.bobbrown.org.au/anfd

03.01.2022 "It's time for a big winner," former federal Greens leader Bob Brown said. "Saving the Franklin River campaign, it won, and Tasmania has been the great beneficiary ever since. "Same with ending native forest logging, but with one difference: we need to end native forest logging across Australia."... https://www.abc.net.au//case-to-test-validity-of-/12924364

02.01.2022 Bob Brown Foundation stays Swift Parrot logging. Forestry Tasmania gives Federal Court commitment not to log 19 coupes of Swift Parrot habitat. In the biggest breakthrough for the conservation of Tasmania’s remaining native forests since 170,000 hectares was protected as World Heritage in 2013, Forestry Tasmania has given the Federal Court a commitment it will not log Swift Parrot habitat as planned in the coming year.... This is a significant win for endangered species in Tasmania’s wild forests in this age of human-caused extinction, Bob Brown said. It is also a tribute to the determined integrity of the doyen of Swift Parrot science, Dr Matt Webb who has been courageously endeavouring to protect these birds for decades. And it is vindication for our foundation, backed by thousands of supporters, in taking action against Forestry Tasmania, backed by environment ministers in Hobart and Canberra. They would have been logging the nesting and feeding sites of one of the most endangered creatures under their care. We will be abroad in the Tasmanian forests, as friends of the Swifties, to make sure no other forests they depend upon are destroyed by the loggers under agreement from these compliant environment ministers. This is a case of community action doing the job of ineffective and disinterested ministers who neither understand nor care about their duty to protect Australia’s fragile and disintegrating wildlife habitats. Nor do they understand the enormous public opinion which will gain great relief from today’s court outcomes for a native species threatened with extinction."

02.01.2022 FOUNDATION’S URGENT ACTION TO SAVE ICONIC BIRD. We have applied in the Federal Court for an injunction to stop Sustainable Timbers Tasmania destroying the feeding and breeding trees essential to Tasmania’s critically endangered Swift Parrot. If granted, the injunction would stop Sustainable Timbers Tasmania from logging the coupes of forest vital to the Swift Parrot for nesting and for feeding on the nectar of its favoured eucalypt blossoms.... The Swift Parrot is the fastest parrot on Earth and, with the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrot which also migrates from the mainland to Tasmania each year to breed, is the only migratory parrot on the planet. It is currently flying over Bass Strait to breed in Tasmania’s coastal forests after over-wintering in Victorian and New South Wales woodlands Just days after David Attenborough’s heart-rending appeal to humanity not to destroy Earth’s natural realm, this action is taken because we believe that STT is acting illegally. It is unnecessarily destroying the very trees the Swift Parrot needs to nest and regenerate, Bob Brown said. And with the Federal Government’s own appointed inquirer, Graeme Samuel, pointing to the failure of legislation being used to protect nature, here is a test of our ability to halt the greatest onrush of extinctions in human history.

02.01.2022 Thanks for the shout out Patagonia for our campaign to Save Australia’s native forests and wildlife.

01.01.2022 To mark the two week countdown until the Big Canopy Campout 2020 event we are privileged to have Paul Pritchard give his time and thoughts to the forests in his home country of Australia in his latest Blog post. https://www.bigcanopycampout.com//going-home-by-paul-pritc Award winning author, renowned British rock climber and advocate for people living with disability Paul Pritchard will be joining us at the Big Canopy Canopy event in Hobart, Tasmania. An experienced big wal...l climber, Paul has slept many nights on sheer rock faces and exposed to all elements. In two weeks he will be taking on another climbing adventure, swapping rock for trees to sleep high in the canopy of the takayna/Tarkine rainforest to stand with Bob Brown Foundation and all other campouts around the world for the protection of native forests. Paul has broken down barriers in many aspects of the physical and mental self, gaining a reputation as one of the strongest British climbers in the 1980's and 90's and then again after the accident in 1998 which left him lacking feeling in his right side alongside memory and speech difficulties. Paul, we couldn't be more delighted that you are part of the campaign and we look forward to seeing you in the trees! Learn more about the Big Canopy Campout here https://www.bigcanopycampout.com/ Photo of Paul by Matthew Newton.