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Old-growth trees could be logged under native expansion

A proposed expansion of native forestry could include areas of land home to old-growth trees, endangered animals and Aboriginal heritage.

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MONA queen's forest foray has aura of ambiguity

It's been six months since Kirsha Kaechele held a bizarre congress to get loggers and forest defenders talking. In typical MONA fashion it's been polarising.

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Huge centuries-old tree being trucked through Hobart CBD prompts calls for logging law reform

Environmentalists want Tasmanian government to follow Victoria and WA and end native forest logging

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Giant old trees are still being logged in Tasmanian forests. We must find ways of better protecting them

The photo said it all. On the back of a logging truck, a tree so large it could barely fit. It was cut down in Tasmania’s Florentine Valley, not far from Mount Field, where it had started life as a seedling over a century ago.

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Wildlife photographer arrested in Tasmanian forest where swift parrot habitat is being logged

Rob Blakers says he was ‘surprised then furious’ that trees in foraging and feeding habitat for birds, whose numbers are down to just 750, were being destroyed

The Guardian - AU

Court throws out Bob Brown Foundation challenge to MMG mine lease

An environmental group has lost its latest court battle with a mining company that's planning to build a controversial new tailings dam in Tasmania's west.

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Bob Brown lashes court mining lease ruling

The Bob Brown Foundation has lost a court challenge related to a contentious mining waste dam proposal in Tasmania.

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Bob Brown Foundation, Sea Shepherd Global say krill super trawlers 'ploughing' through whale pods

Two environmental groups are calling for krill fishing to be outlawed, saying super trawlers are endangering pods of whales in the Southern Ocean.

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Bob Brown ‘moved on’ from logging protest

Former Australian senator and Greens co-founder Bob Brown says he has been arrested in Tasmania while staging a protest against logging.

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Bob Brown arrested in logging protest

Greens co-founder Bob Brown says he has been arrested in Tasmania's northeast while trying to save swift parrot populations.

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Bob Brown accuses Tanya Plibersek of putting industry above environment on Tarkine trip

Environment minister visited Tasmania for two days and insists she’s taking mine decision seriously but Brown wanted her to visit rainforest with him

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Tassal shareholders back foreign takeover

Shareholders of Australia's largest salmon producer Tassal have voted in favour of a takeover by Canadian company Cooke Aquaculture.

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40 years ago, protesters were celebrated for saving the Franklin River. Today they could be jailed for months

The 1982 campaign to stop the building of Tasmania’s Franklin River dam was a defining moment in the history of Australia’s social movements. Those events are now being recounted in the documentary Franklin, screening throughout the country.

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Tasmania's anti-protest bill targeting environmental protesters has been watered down — here's what happens next

Despite a significant watering-down of the Liberals' flagship anti-protest laws, with reduced penalties and some proposals thrown out altogether, Tasmanian environmental campaigners and LGBTIQA+ advocates have still blasted the legislation as being an "assault on democracy".

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Miner ordered to remove equipment in Tas

A court has ordered a mining company remove equipment from the site of a proposed expansion in Tasmania, ruling approval for works was invalid.

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Judge finds Morrison government erred in approving preliminary work on tailings dam in the Tarkine

Conservationists say judgment is one of the most significant in environmental law since the environmental protection act was introduced in 1999

ABC News

Bob Brown Foundation wins legal case against Chinese-owned MMG mine tailings dam approval

A Federal court finds the Morrison government's approval for a tailings dam in Tasmania's wilderness area is invalid, prompting calls for people arrested during protests there to be compensated as "citizen heroes".

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Bob Brown win in Tas mine court battle

The Federal Court has declared government approval for mine expansion-related works in west Tasmania didn't properly consider potential harm to a rare owl.

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Tasmania's upper house passes legislation to impose harsher penalties on protesters

Tasmania's upper house effectively passes legislation to impose harsher penalties for protesters and organisations that obstruct workers or cause a "serious risk". Here's what it means for a state with environmental protest woven into its identity.

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Tapping mineral wealth in mining waste could offset damage from new green economy mines

To go green, the world will need vast quantities of critical minerals such as manganese, lithium, cobalt and rare earth elements. But to some environmentalists, mining to save the planet is a hard pill to swallow if it leads to damage to pristine areas.

The Guardian - AU

Victorian and Tasmanian governments under fire for laws that target environmental protesters

Anti-logging protesters reject state governments’ claims new laws are necessary to protect workers’ safety

ABC News

Environmentalists say logging in Tasmania has been illegal since 1987. Here's why law changes are being rushed through

A "technical issue" in a 1987 Tasmanian law has started a debate over whether all logging and related protester arrests since then have been illegal. So, what does it mean for the Tasmanian forest industry and those who want the trees to be left as they are?

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Bob Brown Foundation loses federal court bid to stop MMG mine tailing dams in Tarkine over masked owl concerns

The Bob Brown Foundation loses its Federal Court bid to halt preliminary works for a controversial mine tailings dam inside the takayna/Tarkine rainforest in Tasmania's west.

ABC News

Tasmanian government accused of attempting to 'retrospectively' change law to 'legalise' logging

Environmental campaigners demand all logging in Tasmania "stop immediately" after the government says a "technical issue" with a 1985 law needs to be fixed. The Greens saying it calls into question decades of logging — and arrests of those who protested against it.

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New MMG mine lease approval near Rosebery about solving a 'protester issue', conservation group says

The Bob Brown Foundation says it is "taking urgent legal advice" following Tasmania's Resources Minister approving a contentious lease along an access road to the site of a proposed tailings dam.

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