Iconic places in North East Tasmania are under renewed threat from logging. Come to our ‘community meeting’ to learn about these threats to reserved forests, be heard on the local communities' concerns, and to pave a way forward together. 

Newly threatened areas are in red.

Back in December, Birdlife Australia obtained documents through a ‘Right to Information’ (RTI) request, revealing that in 2022 the Tasmania Government and Forestry Tasmania began collaborating on the transfer of reserved forests to the permanent timber production zone (PTPZ). This comes following the 2024 State election, where the Liberals promised to ‘unlock the woodbank’, and give 40,000ha to the logging industry.

These newly threatened native forests were promised protection in 2012 through the ‘Tasmanian Forest Agreement’, where the industry was paid hundreds of millions $$$ by the taxpayer to not log them. Yet in 2014, the newly elected Liberals rebranded these forests ‘Future Potential Production Forest’ (FPPF). FPPF land amounts to 356,000ha in 295 individual ‘lots’ across Tasmania, and are of extremely high conservation value. 

The RTI document revealed that Forestry Tasmania is asking for 40,000ha of forest in 27 ‘lots’ - the majority of which fall within the North East of our state. Our analysis has revealed these North Eastern forests are located at Ben Lomond, Mount Arthur, Mount Victoria, Panama, Mount Maurice, Mount Direction, Mathinna, Ringarooma, Pyengana, Mount Barrow, and Fingal Tier. The full map is available here 

We are embarking on a campaign to build community capacity in the North East to protect these iconic landscapes, secure water catchments, and honour the deal that Tasmanians paid big bucks for. Our hope is to empower the community to advocate strongly for their local areas, as was the case in past decades. We cannot do this without people like you.