The Wilderness Society Launceston Campaign Centre in Launceston, Tasmania | Environmental conservation organisation

The Wilderness Society Launceston Campaign Centre

Locality: Launceston, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6331 7488

Address: 174 Charles St 7250 Launceston, TAS, Australia

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

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25.01.2022 TASMANIAN TIMBER NATIONAL PRIZE CHEAT The publicly-funded Tasmanian Timber Promotion Board has laden the nation’s architects with deceptive information that is ...being challenged by Bob Brown Foundation. The Sydney-based magazine Architecture and Design is hosting national architecture awards this Thursday night with Tasmanian Timber funding the category of ‘multiple dwelling’ following a full page article which Bob Brown says is an outrageous misrepresentation of Tasmanian forest logging. "As logging of Swift parrot nesting sites and Tasmanian Devil habitat shows, Tasmanian Timber’s statement to architects that ‘Forest Practices Authority ... have teams of auditors combing the production forest for areas of environmental significance and cordoning them off’ is either false or ineffective, Bob Brown said. Last weekend two Forestry Watch volunteers inspected a coupe in the Swift Parrot core breeding range with excellent Swift Parrot foraging areas. Sus Timber Tas can’t even abide by the deficient rules and cannot guarantee that timber sold is not from habitat for critically endangered species. This highlights the need for more stringent regulations for the protection of our threatened species, Forestry Watch spokesperson, Jack O’Hare said. Tasmanian Timber’s claim that ‘everything that is harvested is already regenerated’ is sheer nonsense which has no place in a reputable trade magazine. As is ‘the other key aspect of the industry’s sustainability journey - nothing goes to waste’ - refuted by STT’s huge smoke plumes rising each year from the millions of tonnes of forest left to waste and incinerated on the forest floor, Bob Brown said. We will reach Australia’s architects and designers with the truth that there is enough plantation timber to meet this nation’s needs and the logging and incineration of what’s left of Tasmania’s native forests and wildlife habitats is unsustainable, archaic and will cease, Brown said.

24.01.2022 DEAD SEA = DEAD ME Hundreds of rebels turned out today with 25 arrests, to call for urgent government action on the climate and ecological emergency. Our oce...ans are dying, but the people are rising!! This is what democracy looks like #actnow #tellthetruth #beyondpolitics

24.01.2022 Check your email inbox for the Zoom link from Tom.

22.01.2022 Good start, @RogerJaensch. Can Gutwein Govt keep going on #LandJustice, #LandReturns and properly recognising lutruwita/Tasmania's Aboriginal people, the palaw...a? So much more to be done. Eg, Aboriginal community still being ignored over off-road tracks in takayana - so ppl can literally drive over ancient, ancient palawa cultural heritage. Cultural heritage concerns and opposition to Lake Malbena proposal completely ignored. Land - including forests - continues to be exploited without the permission of the palawa sought or given. Return of these petroglyphs should be process of justice for lutruwita/Tasmania's first peoples, not tokenism. #WildernessIsPalawa #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre

22.01.2022 Check out this incredible story! A comprehensive look at what's happening to Tasmania's giant kelp forests, told through the eyes of those who know it well. #Tasmania http://ow.ly/YQSI50BCLQj

22.01.2022 Sussan Ley MP received close to 2500 personal emails and letters in the past few months. The decision by the Commonwealth to take another look at the Malbena pr...oposal means that there will be another round of public consultation and when it opens we need to double that number. Yesterday’s Mercury article below. Anyone had a response from Parks Minister Roger Jaensch yet? See more

22.01.2022 While Biodiversity Month technically ends today, for us everyday is Biodiversity Day. Especially when we get Tasmanian devils on our fauna camera traps that we'...ve placed through the glacial refugia forests of the Blue Tier. Seeing healthy young devils in the forests of the north east proves the value of our citizen science work. The records of our surveys are shared with researchers and The Atlas of Living Australia via the @inaturalistorg app. Peer reviewed and globally connected with @natgeo this is part of building our understanding of how to approach a national park proposal incorporating restoration ecology, connecting fragmented landscapes and communities. #biodiversitymonth #bluederbywild #bluetier #tasmaniandevil #tassie #devil #citizenscience #biodiversity #day

21.01.2022 Latest Wilderness Journal is out - and it's a ripper. Highlights: JadinyA film by Marlikka Perdrisat... The Future of Nature by Sylvie King A love letter to nature by Kitty Callaghan Enjoy!

20.01.2022 OCEAN WARMING speeding up with devastating impacts for Tasmania's marine ecosystems "It's bad news for humans and it's bad news for everything living in the oc...ean" - Marine Biologist Lisa-Ann Gershwin who will speak at our Dead Sea March appeared on abcnews radio this morning warning of the dire situation in Tasmania's ocean. "We are seeing massive deaths of the kelps" "They were as beautiful as the Tarkine" What we see is tonnes and tonnes on jellyfish now. #TellTheTruth #ActNow #BeyondPolitics Join us for the Dead Sea March on Saturday, 12noon, Franklin Sq. https://www.facebook.com/events/1241601472847392

18.01.2022 24 people - mainly children and elderly - arrested in Hobart today protesting the fact that policies of the Tasmanian and Australian governments continue to kno...wingly make the extinction and climate crises worse - not better - during the crises of our lives. Dead Sea March focused on the seas around Tasmania dying: 95% of kelp forests gone smooth handfish gone derwent sea star gone aquaculture-fueled algal blooms (yum!) marine dead zones sea-bed deserts world-leading pollution of Derwent River and estuary invasive species (NB: First rule of government = do no harm ) Massive kudos to lutruwita/Tasmania's rebels Extinction Rebellion XR Forest Guardians Tasmania Extinction Rebellion Tasmania

18.01.2022 "Giant eucalypts play an irreplaceable part in many of Australia’s ecosystems. These towering elders develop hollows, which make them nature’s high-rises, housing everything from endangered squirrel-gliders to lace monitors. Over 300 species of vertebrates in Australia depend on hollows in large old trees."

17.01.2022 Missed Australian Story? No worries! Watch Charlie Massy’s story on iview https://ab.co/3jbfxdQ

16.01.2022 https://facebook.com/events/s/dead-sea-march-act-now/1241601472847392/?ti=icl

15.01.2022 We're in Tasmania's Supreme Court this Friday to keep World Heritage wilderness public, beautiful and unprivatised. We're talking to the Court about creating extra capacity so that people can watch proceedings. Will post updates here as soon as there are any. Group taking this case is @WildernessSocietyTasmania, Tasmanian National Parks Association and two individuals. And Fishers & Walkers Against Helicopter Access Tasmania are doing a beautiful job of supporting us all. For wilderness!

15.01.2022 Beautiful story here about Jamie Graham-Blair - super-smart Tasmanian Aboriginal activist decolonising environmentalism. Go Jam! #LandJustice ... #WildernessISpalawa See more

14.01.2022 Princes Square - 2.30pm SHARP (come early) Thursday 12 Nov. Spare banner and placards will be available for you to use (and return). You can come for up to an ...hour or stay on if you wish. We are hearing that someone may place themselves in an arrestable position (no details are being released). This will be a joyful Extinction Rebellion Nth Tas community walk through the Launceston CBD calling upon the Australian Government to take much stronger action on climate change, declaring a climate emergency. We are anticipating a big crowd and strong media coverage. Invite your friends! This is a key moment for Australia to see how isolated we have become on climate policy amongst liberal democracies. In just the past two weeks we have also seen further evidence of the vast economic damage inaction is causing. 82% of Australians support strong action NOW. The photo is from 3 years ago! We're still here! See more

11.01.2022 Finally, some much needed good news about these beautiful, quirky little birds!

10.01.2022 We're not far off $20,000 - which is excellent in less than two weeks. Nice work people. On track to reach $60,000 by November to fund campaign and legal costs... - Supreme Court hearing on Friday *this week*! bit.ly/WildernessDefenceFund #ParksNotProfits

09.01.2022 The Blue Tier has a unique and endangered pre-glacial forest with a unique biodiversity. Much of this ancient old-growth forest is unprotected and is zoned for... logging. There is a hard-working group of volunteers named Blue Derby Wild doing citizen science in the Blue Tier to record and try to preserve what is left of this forest. The information and pictures they gather is added to several natural heritage atlases. They deserve any support you can give them. Follow this link to read the full article... https://1drv.ms/b/s!AvB3u425ZSRNgzrdW-axIPYXqNRg?e=I9E8sU See more

06.01.2022 From today's The Mercury Newspaper (a copy of which you should buy). We didn't use the word vindicate so not sure why it's in 'quotes' but, bottom line, the Co...mmonwealth Environment Minister Sussan Ley MP has recognised wilderness and World Heritage values are at stake and that wilderness IS a World Heritage value. The first time an environment minister has recognised this so pretty encouraging.

06.01.2022 UPDATE: The Supreme Court has very kindly agreed to stream proceedings tomorrow from Court 1 into Court 2 to create extra seating capacity so people can watch proceedings. (Thank you, Supreme Court clerks.) There's still not a huge number of seats - about 20 - so it will be first come, first served. The hearing tomorrow will be from 10am to 4pm. You can come and help wave some banners before the hearing if you like. ... Previous post: We're in Tasmania's Supreme Court this Friday to keep World Heritage wilderness public, beautiful and unprivatised. We're talking to the Court about creating extra capacity so that people can watch proceedings. Will post updates here as soon as there are any. Group taking this case is @WildernessSocietyTasmania, Tasmanian National Parks Association and two individuals. And Fishers & Walkers Against Helicopter Access Tasmania are doing a beautiful job of supporting us all. For wilderness!

05.01.2022 While lawyers argue their case we’ve got more National Coverage here in Bushwalking Australia Magazine (link below). The whole sorry saga laid out. Tourism Indu...stry Council Tasmania and Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service have a relationship that needs to end because they are going to not only destroy the places and the peace we enjoy they will destroy the very thing that they keep promoting as the Tasmanian brand. We’re never actually going to give up so they may as well. https://www.dropbox.com/s/rbzg/BWA%20Malbena%20Matters.pdf

05.01.2022 We're in Tasmania's Supreme Court today, fighting to keep Tasmania's public World Heritage wilderness for the many, not just the few. More than 2,300 of you wo...nderful people signed on to a letter asking Enviro Minister Sussan Lay to put Australia's international obligations to protect and respect World Heritage values first when she considers the proposed helicopter-accessed luxury accommodation a developer wants to build at Lake Malbena, inside Tasmania's World Heritage-listed Walls of Jerusalem National Park. Public submissions open on this proposal soon - and we'll be sure to let you know when! https://www.themercury.com.au//dad44c568029d3aca12900d19fb bit.ly/WildernessDefenceFund Fishers & Walkers Against Helicopter Access Tasmania Tasmanian National Parks Association

05.01.2022 Suzanne Milthorpe of TWS delivers a great submission to the Senate Inquiry on the EPBC. If you are writing a submission yourself, this is a must watch.

05.01.2022 Just 5% of Tasmania’s once iconic giant kelp forests remain. But a passionate team of scientists might have a solution. Read more wilderness.org.au/the_lost..._world This article was featured in our monthly Wilderness Journal. Sign up for our e-journal & discover stories of natural wonders like this wilderness.org.au/nature_e-journal

04.01.2022 It's not all rainforest and eucalypt trees in the forests of the north east. A large stretch of highly biodiverse mixed forests stretches from the glacial refu...gia forests of the Blue Tier, spanning the North East Highlands down to the sparkling east coast. Holding gnarly old banksia woodlands, sheoak forests, iron bark forests and so much more. These forests are being heavily logged at the moment, and mined for illegal firewood. Make sure you're not buying into the destruction of our fragile forests. Check where your wood is coming from, and if its Tasmanian native wood you know it's not up to scratch for FSC certification. Sustainable Timbers Tasmania ( still legally registered under the name Forestry Tasmania) keeps failing the FSC test! #bluederbywild #northeasttasmania #biodiversitymonth #timber #trees #forests #tassiestyle

03.01.2022 Thank you to all the rebels for the rebellious day in celebration of protecting our oceans. A lovely quote from Detective Senior Constable Angus Dober... he... said no one was violent, "there was just, what we would refer to as passive resistance". "We absolutely respect people's right to protest as long as that is done peacefully," he said. Love & Rebellion <3

01.01.2022 Taking it to the streets! Give us a toot when you see us out and about. Public parks NOT private playgrounds SA campaign on the streets of Hobart with our message of why #Malbena Matters!