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Tasmania bushfires leave World Heritage Area devastated in pictures

2016-02-02 01:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Pictures from Tasmanias central plateau, shot by wilderness photographer Dan Broun, show the extraordinary damage wrought by more than a week of bushfires following lightning strikes in Australias southernmost state on 13 January. The world heritage area was home to a range of unique alpine flora including pencil pines, king billy pines and cushion plants, some more than 1,000 years old. Now more than 10,000ha of land has been incinerated, and ecologist say that, unlike eucalyptus trees, the ancient...

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World heritage forests burn as global tragedy unfolds in Tasmania

2016-01-27 04:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A global tragedy is unfolding in Tasmania. World heritage forests are burning; 1,000-year-old trees and the hoary peat beneath are reduced to char. Fires have already taken stands of king billy and pencil pine the last remaining fragments of an ecosystem that once spread across the supercontinent of Gondwana. Pockets of Australias only winter deciduous tree, the beloved nothofagus whose direct kin shade the sides of the South American Andes are now just a wind change away from eternity....

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Australia: Bob Brown arrested protesting against logging in Tasmania

2016-01-25 12:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Bob Brown has been arrested at a forestry protest in Tasmania, making him the third person charged under Tasmanias tough new anti-protest laws. The former Australian Greens leader and founder of the party was arrested at an area of state forest marked for logging at Lapoinya in north-west Tasmania on Monday. The arrest was announced on his Twitter account. Brown was processed at Burnie police station and released. The area is designated forestry land and has been selectively logged before...

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Australia and Tasmania spend $85m on revitalising freight rail

2015-11-23 01:00:00| Railway Technology

The Australian and Tasmanian Governments have jointly awarded the single largest tender of the A$119.6m ($85m) Tasmanian Freight Rail Revitalisation Project to VEC Civil Engineering for track works on the Melba and Western line.

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