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Threatened Species Report, Auditor-General of Australia, March 2009

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http://www.audit.tas.gov.au/publications/reports/specialreport/pdfs/specialreport78.pdf

Visit the above link to read the damning report on the state of Tasmania's rare and endangered species.

The report, by Australia's Auditor-General, was released in March, 2009 and among may issues notes how only 2 of Tasmania's threatened species have full recovery plans in place.

Tasmania's Southern Forests are habitat-in-crisis for many of these species.

Upper Florentine Walk-in, Jan 18th 2009

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Upper Florentine Walk-in, Jan 18th 2009

On 18th January, over 500 people entered the exclusion zone that Forestry Tasmania placed on the coupe 44A in the Upper Florenetine, the location of the 2 year long blockade. For the entire day work was halted due to the courageous actions of our community!

20.09.09 FT BUNGLE UPPER FLORENTINE EXCLUSION ZONE BOUNDARY, TRESPASS CHARGES TO BE DROPPED!

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Police line at Mother's day rally in the Upper Florentine, approxamatley 250m from the exclusion zone!Police line at Mother's day rally in the Upper Florentine, approxamatley 250m from the exclusion zone!Still Wild Still Threatened are calling for people who have been convicted of trespass at Camp Florentine to come foward and appeal against your convictions!!

This follows the revelation that Forestry Tasmania bungled the exclusion zone boundary and gave wrong information to the police, resulting in the trespass charge against Derwent Valley grandmother Lynda Blyth being dropped. The police have also communicated that trespass charges against others accused of trespass would also be dropped if they fall into the same category as that of Ms Blyth, who was arrested over 200 metres from the exclusion zone.

If you have been charged with trespass in the Upper Florentine you may have been arrested outside the exclusion zone, get in touch with www.stillwildstillthreatened@gmail.com and make it clear to the State Government that your actions and the entire exsistance of camp flozza has in fact been legal!

1.10.09 POLICE QUESTION CREDIBILITY OF FORESTRY TAS WORKERS

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Discredited Forestry Tas workerDiscredited Forestry Tas workerFLORENTINE ACTIVISTS' ASSAULT AND NUISANCE CHARGES DROPPED

Charges of assault and public nuisance against forest protestors in the Upper Florentine have been dropped in Hobart magistrate’s court today. Natalie Keene, 31 of Hobart, Ali Alishah, 25 of Hobart and Lee Sargent 29 of Kaoota had charges of assault and public nuisance dropped and Lauren Platzer, 23 of Kaoota, had her public nuisance charge dropped.

Principal legal officer Mark Miller made a statement in court that questioned the credibility of Forestry Tasmania employees involved in the incident as they used their cars to block a road preventing peaceful protesters from leaving the area. Mr Miller also made it clear that no peaceful protester was committing a nuisance or assault as Forestry Tasmania staff claimed.

Upper Florentine Open Day - Sunday 16th May

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SPOT TAILED QUOLLS CLIMB TREES ON PARLIAMENT LAWNS AS DAZZA DEVIL CALLS FOR AN END TO LOGGING TASMANIA’S ANCIENT FORESTS

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International Day for Biodiversity 22nd May 2010

Today, two spotted tailed quolls climbed trees at Hobart’s Parliament Lawns as Dazza the Tasmanian devil held a press conference calling for an end to the logging of threatened species habitat in Tasmania’s ancient forests. The threatened animals travelled into Hobart from the Upper Florentine valley for the International Day of Biodiversity, which coincided with the release of new videos by conservationists from Still Wild Still Threatened.


The videos (which can be viewed at www.youtube.com/tassieforests) depict a number of endangered Tasmanian devils which have been filmed in proposed logging coupes in the Upper Florentine valley. The videos were viewed by community members from all over Australia at Salamanca this afternoon.

 

 
"We are hopeful that Premier Bartlett will realise that he must immediately stop the destruction of our homes. Tasmania is well on the way to becoming the extinction state, and everyone knows that extinction is forever" said Dazza Devil.



           

 

 

'Devils in Danger' - An Investigation into the Threatened Species of the Upper Florentine

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'Devils in Danger' - An investigation into the threatened species of the Upper Florentine valley. This report details survey data and methods from flora and fauna surveys recently carried out by SWST in the Upper Florentine forests. Using infra red cameras, SWST has documented several endangered Tasmanian devils and rare spotted-tailed quolls that inhabit the forests of the Upper Florentine valley, this report argues that threatened species habitat must be protected to ensure long term stable habitat conditions for species most at risk.

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