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25.01.2022 RARE FOOTAGE! Our team were out last night and were finally able to collect this rare footage of the critically endangered Leadbeaters Possum. We are saddened t...o inform you this footage was taken in an area zoned for logging. Thank you for joining the campaign for Victorias next National Park and protecting the Leadbeaters Possum! Additional thank you to Wildlife Photographics #GFNP - WATCH IN HD See more

25.01.2022 Great citizen science opportunity - anyone with a smart phone can take part :)

24.01.2022 While we wait to see the outcome of the forest fires heres something you can do. Submissions regarding Lake Malbena to the Central Highlands Council are open u...ntil 4th Feb Heres your chance to say something personal about the proposal. https://www.wilderness.org.au//how-to-make-a-submission-op See more

23.01.2022 While we wait to see the outcome of the forest fires here's something you can do. Submissions regarding Lake Malbena to the Central Highlands Council are open u...ntil 4th Feb Here's your chance to say something personal about the proposal. https://www.wilderness.org.au//how-to-make-a-submission-op See more

22.01.2022 http://australianmuseum.net.au//hollows-as-homes-citizen-s

21.01.2022 Weve had Climate and Nature Senate forums in Launceston, Hobart and Wynyard with fantastic crowds and great conversations, questions and answers. Deloraine and... Rosny are still to come so why not get involved, ask a question, make a comment, value your vote. Hope to see you there. RSVP here https://www.wilderness.org.au//climate-and-nature-senate-f Deloraine - Thursday 23 June, 5pm, Deloraine House Rosny - Thursday 30 June, 5pm Rosny College Auditorium

21.01.2022 FIRE UPDATE Sunday 27/1/19 We have received credible reports that fire crews have done everything they could to save Centurion. This includes taking down... nearby trees and removing fuel on the ground by hand to a 30m radius. This extreme effort in the face of what was surely a formidable fire we hope would have saved the tree. However the this mornings map update brings quite devastating news. From the map it looks like the entire valley has been burnt which is a very large area. This shaded area of map has definitely now consumed Centurion and the Arve Giant. We are lost for words. We might have lost a very significant percentage of our tallest trees and ones that might have been contenders over the next 100 years. Not to mention the forest and ecosystem as a whole. Its quite difficult, emotionally, to process this information at the moment. - To clarify we do not know anything about specific trees surviving or perishing just broad landscape level information. - Our thanks go to the brave people of the fire crews for their efforts. Our hope is that as the days go by peoples property and livelihoods arent effected by the fires. Well provide updates as we receive any information. Follow @Tasmanian Fire Service for updates.

20.01.2022 http://www.geco.org.au/calendar

20.01.2022 The Wilderness Society hosted a climate and nature senate forum In Wynyard. 50 local folk got to ask questions and hear from one of the Greens Senators - Peter Whish-Wilson. Senators from all political parties were invited to attend.

19.01.2022 This brilliant flash of colour is the swift parrot one of Australias most threatened birds. The swift parrot is being logged to extinction in Tasmania while the state government logger Forestry Tasmania tries to get the world-leading FSC green tick for their operations. Hmmm, probably not the best way to go about it...... Weve done some brand new analysis that shows Forestry Tasmania plans to log over 1000 hectares of swift parrot habitat in the next three years. Were keeping a close eye on how this issue develops. Read more here: http://ab.co/1K95s7l Read our report: http://bit.ly/1O2iBpG [Photo Chris Tzaros]

19.01.2022 Letters from Lapoinya a daily blog by the Wilderness Society Tasmania community organisers, who are on the ground with the community as they fight to save the special place they love. Ruth and Liz

18.01.2022 Hello Victorians. A wonderful event is happening in Melbourne to help support the protection of the magnificent Tarkine Wilderness in North West Tasmania. Pleas...e get along to it and invite your friends and family. Tasmanians please let your friends and family in Victoria know this is one way they can help support our Tarkine. Love the Tarkine yes we do. Lizxo See more

16.01.2022 Tarkine quad bikers should be prosecuted, access closed, Wilderness Society says

16.01.2022 http://www.themercury.com.au//talking-point-logging-rings-

16.01.2022 Citizen Science in North East Tasmania. Identifying Masked Owl habitat in threatened forests. Check out some of the hollows the Wilderness Society found over the past few days. Lets protect our threatened species like the masked owl and their homes.

15.01.2022 Dont forget - unReserved opens 5.30 tonight with a special guest star. Given his comedic capacity to spice up discussion of even the most serious of conservation issues, weve invited the grandfather of conservation biology in Tasmania to help open this exhibition. Distinguished Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick might even bring his wombat impersonation to Wild Island!! Join Jamie and the cartoonists Kudelka, Polly and Chris Downes tonight at 5.30 pm, for a cackle at this exhibitions take on some of the saddest and sorriest forest policy saga Tasmania has seen.

12.01.2022 ARE THE LOBSTER FORESTS SAFE FROM LOGGING ? On the eve of World Threatened Species Day, the Wilderness Society today called on Tasmanian Environment Minister Ma...tthew Groom to clarify his Governments policy to reverse reserves in critical, Giant Freshwater Lobster habitat identified in a national Recovery Plan for protection. The Lobster Recovery Plan and its agreed action to increase reserves in key habitat areas was a welcome dose of common sense, underpinned by science, said Vica Bayley, spokesperson for the Wilderness Society. But this runs counter to the Hodgman Governments plan to reduce the amount of forests reserved in identified river catchments, in an attempt to introduce logging. As we again recognise the tragic day the last known thylacine died 81 years ago, Minister Groom needs to clarify how his government can reconcile a policy position that is directly counter to an agreed plan to save another species from extinction. Vica Bayley Tasmanian Campaign Manager TWS

12.01.2022 If you can make it tomorrow, please come and support this little community to save their beautiful forest. There are 15 streams left on Earth where Astacopsis Gouldi breed, if this goes, one of the best will be lost. Please help. Please come xoxoxo <3

11.01.2022 Pictures tell a thousand words. Please take a few seconds to see what is going on in the North West of Tasmania in the middle of the small community of Lapoinya. It is a tragedy.

11.01.2022 http://www.abc.net.au//tasmanian-fungi-hunters-ci/7461438

09.01.2022 A few of the 30+ volunteers that were doing TWS Citizen Science - Community Carbon with us this weekend

08.01.2022 Last nights 7.30 Report revealed ongoing, illegal access to Tasmanias takayna coastline and the Tasmanian Aboriginal communitys ongoing fight to protect this cultural landscape. The Wilderness Society has written to Environment Minister Matthew Groom, asking him to take action. This includes removing an ATV barge on the Pieman River, whose only conceivable purpose is to facilitate dropping ATVs on the takayna coast in breach of the law.

07.01.2022 revised text. (FB not letting me reload the pdf)

07.01.2022 Native forests can help hit emissions targets - if we leave them alone

07.01.2022 Hi Hobartians. A must go to event tonight at 7.00PM at Sustainable Living Tasmania. The Time is Now to get Involved. Be part of the Transition and keep our Planet safe. Like and Share

06.01.2022 http://csna.gaiaresources.com.au/wordpress/conference/

04.01.2022 A special place on our precious Island State Tasmania. Beautiful forest and people. Please take a moment to sign this petition and help the local community Save Lapoinya for all of us enjoy now and into the future. Forestry Tasmania is forging on against community opinion on this one; another sign of how out of touch and unsustainable their practices are - please get on board and take a moment to sign and share this petition and stand with the Lapoinya community. Liz

04.01.2022 https://secure.utas.edu.au//logging-link-to-global-climate New research by UTAS and Christopher Dean.

01.01.2022 Community Carbon Accounting spreading its wings The pioneering citizen science work of the Wilderness Society Tasmania spreading its wings to the forests of East Gippsland. Sharing and caring for our forests. Love your work GECO from Liz at TWS Tasmania.

01.01.2022 Nick Fitzgerald presenting the Wilderness Society Tasmania Community Carbon Accounting Citizen Science project at the Australian Citizen Science Conference in Canberra. Thanks to all the volunteers and community we have robust citizen science that demonstrates the above ground carbon carrying capacity of our precious ancient temperate old growth Tasmanian forests.

01.01.2022 http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php Article by John Lawrence who spoke about the economics of the planned logging at Lapoinya - Broxhams Road by Forestry Tasmania at a public forum held in Wynyard on Sunday attended by almost 200 people. The North-West loves Lapoinya...and so does The Wilderness Society Tas.