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.

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Back in December 2024, Birdlife Australia obtained documents through a ‘Right to Information’ (RTI) request, revealing that in 2022 the Tasmanian Government and Forestry Tasmania began secretly collaborating on the transfer of reserved forests to the permanent timber production zone (PTPZ). 

During the 2024 State Election, this conspiring was eluded to through the Liberals promise 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 logging 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). 

The ‘Right to Information’ document revealed that Forestry Tasmania is demanding 40,000ha of forest in 27 ‘lots’. 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 stop the defrauding of Tasmanian taxpayers. 

We need to stand together to stop this renewed threat to these forests! Our hope is to empower local communities to advocate strongly for their local areas, as was the case in past decades. We cannot do this without people like you.