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Environmentalists await Unesco verdict on future of protected Tasmanian forests
2014-06-16 16:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Unesco world heritage committee is about to rule on a proposal to have 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian forest delisted in order to open it up to the timber industry. It is also debating whether or not to list the Great Barrier Reef as highly endangered because of pollution. If the forests were delisted, Australia would be the first developed country to have the protected status of a natural environment reversed on economic grounds. The government has claimed that the area subjected to logging...
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Australia: Coalition misled UN over bid to strip heritage listing from Tasmanian forest
2014-03-13 04:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The government has been accused of misleading the UN in its bid to strip world heritage protection from tracts of Tasmanian forest, after the release of pictures purportedly showing that ecologically pristine areas will be delisted. Bob Brown, the former Greens leader, has released a tranche of photos from the Weld Valley, one of several areas where the government wants to remove a total of 74,000 hectares of the world heritage protection. Brown said the images were evidence that 90% of the...
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Product Launch - UK: Old Hobart Distillery's Overeem Tasmanian whisky range
2013-09-30 15:35:51| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Old Hobart Distillery's Overeem Tasmanian whisky range
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Reel Trial Positive in Tasmanian Salmon Industry
2013-08-21 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Media release: manufacturer provides Tassal salmon industry solution<br /> <br /> Reel trial positive in Tasmanian salmon industry<br /> <br /> The salt water environment of the Tasmanian fishing industry is just about as stern a test for any Australian-made steel equipment used in its ports.<br /> <br /> Against the backdrop threat of cheap imports and low gauge local alternatives, the top-end quality of ReCoila product is being heavily tested by salmon fishing company Tassal, at two of its ...This story is related to the following:Hose Reels
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Last disease-free Tasmanian devils imperiled by mine
2013-08-07 16:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The federal environment minister, Mark Butler, has given the go-ahead to a controversial mine that the courts halted amid concerns it could drastically affect the last stronghold of the Tasmanian devil. Butler said he had granted approval to Shree Minerals to proceed with its iron ore mine at Nelson Bay River in the north-west of Tasmania, subject to 30 conditions. However, the Save the Tarkine campaign group, which successfully convinced the federal court to block the mine two weeks ago, said...
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