Protect Lutruwita / Tasmania’s forests

Protect Lutruwita / Tasmania’s forests

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In 2024, the Wilderness Society obtained documents revealing that the Tasmanian government and state owned logging agency, Forestry Tasmania, are collaborating on a plan to log reserved forests. The sprawling forests of Lutruwita / Tasmania support some of Australia’s most spectacular and peculiar native wildlife—the stunning swift parrot, giant freshwater lobster and the Tasmanian devil, just to name a few! 

These threatened native forests were promised protection in 2012, but this commitment was abandoned by successive governments.

Please add your name today to call on the Tasmanian government to permanently protect these iconic landscapes for the benefit of people ...

In 2024, the Wilderness Society obtained documents revealing that the Tasmanian government and state owned logging agency, Forestry Tasmania, are collaborating on a plan to log reserved forests. The sprawling forests of Lutruwita / Tasmania support some of Australia’s most spectacular and peculiar native wildlife—the stunning swift parrot, giant freshwater lobster and the Tasmanian devil, just to name a few! 

These threatened native forests were promised protection in 2012, but this commitment was abandoned by successive governments.

Please add your name today to call on the Tasmanian government to permanently protect these iconic landscapes for the benefit of people, nature and climate. 

Already over 7,000 hectares of native forest is logged in the lands of the Palawa people each year. Instead of expanding native forest logging, this renewed threat to Lutruwita / Tasmania’s spectacular native forests must be brought to an end.

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Add your name to protect Lutruwita's forests

Add your name to Premier Rockliff to protect Lutruwita / Tasmania’s native forests and say no to logging in reserves.

Dear Premier Rockliff.

I encourage you to permanently protect future potential production forests as promised over a decade ago. 

In 2024, your government made an election commitment to ‘open up’ 39,000 hectares of reserved forests in the north east and north west of the state. At a time where we are facing dual climate and biodiversity crises, governments should be protecting forests instead of expanding logging. 

Eighty eight per cent of these forests are over 80 years in age. They are also home to a variety of iconic threatened species such as the Tasmanian devil, wedge-tailed eagle, giant freshwater crayfish, and swift parrot. Areas slated for logging are also located in critical water catchments for local communities. 

Communities are working tirelessly to have these forests protected, and now significant portions could be handed over to the logging industry without consultation. The Australian public has already paid $121 million to industry in exchange for their commitment to spare these areas from logging. 

Other states have already exited industrial native forest logging—Tasmania must follow suit. It's not the time for more ongoing forest destruction. There needs to be a just transition to a sustainable plantation based industry. 

I am calling on the Rockliff government to permanently protect Lutruwita / Tasmania’s high conservation value forests. 

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