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	The Wilderness Society - Australia
		The Wilderness Society is a community-based environmental advocacy organisation whose mission is protecting, promoting and restoring wilderness and natural processes across Australia for the survival and ongoing evolution of life on Earth.
		Third generation Tasmanian scallop fisherman John Hammond told the crowd of his fears for the survival of the fishing industry if Gunns’ mill is allowed to discharge toxic effluents into Bass Strait.
		The Wilderness Society has responded to PEFC and for the sixth time requested they review their endorsement of the Australian Forest Standard and the Tasmanian forest destruction being undertaken by PEFC certified entities: Gunns and Forestry Tasmania.
	www.wilderness.org.au (1277 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tasmanian Greens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Division of Denison, Tasmania is one of the 5 electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly or lower house.
		The Division of Franklin, Tasmania is one of the 5 electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
		The precursor to the Tasmanian Greens (the earliest existent member of the federation of parties that is the Australian Greens), the United Tasmania Party, was founded in 1972 to oppose the construction of new dams to flood Lake Pedder.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tasmanian-Greens (1785 words)

	Franklin Dam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The photograph Morning Mist, Rock Island Bend, Franklin River, by Peter Dombrovskis, was used by the Tasmanian Wilderness Society in advertising.
		The Tasmanian Wilderness Society, under activist Bob Brown, which had formed from the anti-Lake Pedder Dam groups, the Tasmanian Conservation Trust and the Australian Conservation Foundation began to mount a public interest campaign concerning the river.
		However, the Tasmanian government appealed the decision to the High Court, claiming that the federal government had no powers under the Constitution to pass the legislation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franklin_Dam (1767 words)

	The Wilderness Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wilderness Society was formed initially as a protest group called Tasmanian Wilderness Society to fight against the unchecked power of The HEC to build dams where ever it saw fit without external checks of its political power over the Government of Tasmania.
		Brown was elected to the Tasmanian government in 1983, and the grouping of fellow conservationists went on to become known as the Tasmanian Greens.
		While The Wilderness Society has worked with them on certain campaigns, it is not affiliated with the Greens, or any other political party, and has a policy of not allowing its paid employees to be part of any political party either.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Wilderness_Society (540 words)

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		The insularity of Tasmania, and of the Tasmanian Wilderness in particular, has contributed to its uniqueness and has helped to protect it from the impact of exotic species which has seriously affected the mainland fauna.
		An analysis of the chemical properties, light regime and the Tasmanian endemic algal flora shows that the lakes are significant in terms of the east-west divide.
		The Tasmanian Aborigines were, until the advent of the European explorer Abel Tasman, the longest isolated human group in world history, surviving some 500 generations without outside influence.
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0215w.htm (4705 words)

	Lake Pedder
		The Tasmanian Wilderness Society was formed in 1976 in response to the HEC schemes proposed for the S W Tasmania region.
		This polarisation of views further solidified the Tasmanian Wilderness Society's resolve to fight the construction of the dam and was also proved significant in the election of the Hawke Labor government in March 1983.
		The Tasmanian Wilderness Society, having galvanised environmentalists world wide to 'save the Franklin', began a blockade on the construction of the dam, aided by hundreds of environmentally concerned citizens.
	www.lakepedder.org /resources/reports/GovernmentBackgroundFranklin.htm (1038 words)

	UNEP-WCMC Protected Areas Programme - Tasmanian Wilderness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The insularity of Tasmania, and of the Tasmanian Wilderness in particular, has contributed to its uniqueness and has helped to protect it from the impact of exotic species which has seriously affected the mainland fauna.
		An analysis of the chemical properties, light regime and the Tasmanian endemic algal flora shows that the lakes are significant in terms of the east-west divide.
		The Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service is the agency largely responsible for administering the WHA with assistance coming from the World Heritage Area Consultative Committee and a Ministerial Council.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wh/taswild.html (5281 words)

	DPIWE - Cool Temperate Rainforest
		Tasmanian rainforest contain some species with an ancestry dating back to the super continent of Gondwana, and have been present in Tasmania for more than 60 million years.
		Tasmanian rainforest is such a quiet place that sometimes it seems that there are no animals.
		Of the reptiles, the Tasmanian tree frog, tiger snake and brown skink are relatively common.
	www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au /inter.nsf/WebPages/BHAN-54744C?open (1182 words)

	Tasmanian Travelways
		The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, which comprises about 20 per cent of the State (1,383,640 hectares), is essentially wild, natural country in central and south-western Tasmania.
		Tasmanian Aborigines were probably less influential on the fauna than their mainland Australian counterparts.
		The Tasmanian Devil and Thylacine, both also known as recent fossils on mainland Australia, have probably survived longer in Tasmania because of the lack of competition from dingoes and the introduced fox.
	www.travelways.com.au /tasmania.asp?tassie=envi (1105 words)

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		Tasmanian Honey is one of the purest honeys available - between the purity of the pollen and the cleanest air in the world, Tasmanian honey is full honey flavor.
		To maintain purity, the Tasmanian Honey Company has developed their own special process from collection to extraction through packaging process that realises the complete recovery of all the natural floral essences and wild vitality of the Leatherwood flower.
		The Tasmanian Honey Company uses a cold temperature processing technique that avoids the over-refinement and damage caused to honey by high temprature extraction and packaging, coupled with filtration, that is the norm in most commercially available honey.
	www.australianartisanal.com /TasHoney (273 words)

	Tasmanian Wilderness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tasmanian Wilderness is a World Heritage Area in Tasmania, Australia.
		The area constitutes one of the last expanses of temperate wilderness in the world.
		Remains found in limestone caves attest to the human occupation of the area for more than 20,000 years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tasmanian_Wilderness (104 words)

	Search Results for wilderness - Encyclopædia Britannica
		wilderness park, extreme northwestern British Columbia, Canada, sandwiched between Yukon Territory to the north and the Alaskan Panhandle (U.S.) to the west and south.
		The English title is a translation of the Septuagint (Greek) title referring to the numbering of the tribes of Israel in chapters 1–4.
		Explore the wilderness of Basque Province in northern Spain.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=wilderness&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (561 words)

	Tasmanian Wilderness and Spa Getaway- Australia - Goway Travel Experiences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The afternoon is spent exploring the alpine wilderness of Mt. Wellington, the 1270 metre peak which provides the dramatic backdrop to the city.
		Next, you are whisked away to a private yoga studio nestled in lush gardens for a relaxing 'Yoga from the Heart' session, which aims to bring your body into an awareness of the Tasmanian wilderness.
		The rugged outline of Cradle Mountain is synonymous with the Tasmanian wilderness experience, and today is your opportunity to select from a range of nature walks of varying difficulty and intensity.
	www.goway.com /getaways/tas_wilderness_spas_gtaway.html (1527 words)

	Tasmanian Devil Park
		Tasmanian Devil Park, Tasmania's longest established wildlife rescue centre, is to become the main information and possibly operations centre in a major conservation project to save wild Tasmanian devils from being wiped out by a rapidly spreading infectious cancer.
		The plan, which involves Tasmanian Devil Park, is to retreat to the isolated Tasman Peninsula in the south east corner in a bid to retail at least a small population of disease free animals.
		Tasmanian Devil Park, which is located in the centre of the peninsula, has been breeding Tasmanian devils for more than a quarter of a century.
	members.iinet.net.au /~taswild/news.html (989 words)

	Australia - Tasmanian Wilderness
		The insularity of Tasmania, and of the Tasmanian Wilderness in particular, has contributed to its uniqueness and has helped to protect it from the impact of exotic species that have seriously affected the environment of the Australian mainland.
		The Tasmanian Wilderness is a stronghold for several animals that are either extinct or threatened on mainland Australia.
		The World Heritage values of the Tasmanian Wilderness relating to European settlement are those of the area's convict past.
	worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk /frame-AustraliaTasmania.htm (620 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Tasmanian Central Highland forests (AA0411)
		Alpine areas are well protected in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area but lower elevation woodlands and grasslands receive little protection and have been greatly modified for grazing.
		Tasmanian Central Highland Forests are found on Tasmania’s large Central Plateau, a cool, high surface underlain by Jurassic dolerite and Tertiary basalts.
		The Tasmanian devil (Sacrophilus harrisii) is widespread throughout all of Tasmania, and the extinct Tasmanian thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) once ranged throughout Tasmania as well, in low densities.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0411_full.html (1595 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Tasmanian temperate rain forests (AA0413)
		Although rainforest is well-conserved in the large Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage area, fire is a pervasive threat to rainforest vegetation throughout the region, and logging and mining continue outside protected areas.
		The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Site occupies the southern portions of this ecoregion and comprises over 700 vascular plants, of which 240 are endemic (representing two-thirds of Tasmania’s endemic higher plant taxa) (Harris et al.
		The Tasmanian pademelon was once found on mainland Australia but was eradicated due to loss of habitat and overhunting for meat and pelts (Strahan 1998).
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0413_full.html (1411 words)

	World Heritage: Tasmania Wilderness
		The insularity of Tasmania, and of the Tasmanian Wilderness in particular, has contributed to its uniqueness and has helped to protect it from the impact of exotic species that have seriously affected the environment of the Australian mainland.
		The Tasmanian Wilderness is a stronghold for several animals that are either extinct or threatened on mainland Australia.
		The colonisation of parts of the globe by means of the forced transportation of convicts from Europe was a significant feature of world population movement in the 18th and 19th centuries.
	www.deh.gov.au /heritage/worldheritage/sites/tasmania/index.html (1051 words)

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		1976 The organisation becomes the Tasmanian Wilderness Society whose mission is to promote the concept of wilderness, to prevent the destruction of wilderness and to enlarge the area of protected wilderness.
		Plans developed for wilderness preservation in Tasmania and a new approach to forestry in that state.
		Australia's second Wilderness Act is passed in South Australia after a four year campaign that draws praise from all political parties.
	www.rpi.edu /dept/chem-eng/Biotech-Environ/ECOLOGY/History.html (974 words)

	23/7/2002 -- Tasmanian Logging Yields World Record Green Vote
		Underlying the surge in the Tasmanian green vote, up from 10 percent in the 1998 election, was a groundswell of opposition to the increasing level of logging of old-growth forests.
		Throughout the election campaign, the Tasmanian Community Alliance, a coalition of community groups and individuals, ran television ads promoting the protection of the old-growth forests.
		Tasmanian Premier Jim Bacon is not prepared at this stage to concede any changes to his forest policy.
	www.forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=13480 (1008 words)

	L.L.Bean: Park Search - Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area covers 3.5 million acres, nearly 20 percent of this island that is the most southern state in Australia.
		There are also temperate rain forests within the Tasmanian Wilderness as well as the world’s tallest flowering plant — the swamp gum.
		The wilderness also protects a number of animal species that have recently become extinct on mainland Australia, such as the Tasmanian bettong as well as the already mentioned eastern quoll.
	www.llbean.com /parksearch/parks/html/2024llt.htm (323 words)

	6/12/2003 -- TASMANIA: 15,000-year-old art discovered in planned logging area
		Aboriginal cave art said to be of international significance has been found in a planned logging coupe in a Tasmanian old growth forest that conservationists have been trying to protect for 20 years.
		A collection of a dozen ochre hand stencils have been found on the walls of a cave complex yet to be fully explored in the valley of the upper Huon River in southern Tasmania.
		The Wilderness Society, which has been seeking inclusion of these forests in the heritage area since 1982, said the discovery was a vindication.
	www.forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=27547 (516 words)

	TVE's Earth Report: Paper Tiger
		Tasmanian Wilderness a World Heritage Area: click for a visitors guide and find out what a World Heritage Area and information on other such sites around the world.
		The Wilderness Society is campaigning for the Styx Valley to be declared a national park.
		Believed to be a threat to their sheep, the settlers wiped out the Tasmanian tiger, a kind of marsupial equivalent of the wolf.
	www.tve.org /earthreport/archive/doc.cfm?aid=798 (1918 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Tasmanian Wilderness
		As the disease approaches the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area in the west of the island, remote digital camera technology is being called in to...
		It's just outside the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, and Mr Mooney is not optimistic of a slowdown.
		The Styx Valley close to Hobart is home to the tallest hardwood trees in the world and is on the edge of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
	conservation.mongabay.com /files/Tasmanian_Wilderness.htm (412 words)

	The Wilderness Society - Tasmania
		The Wilderness Society Tasmania campaigns for the protection of threatened world-class forests and forests of World Heritage value.
		The Wilderness Society began in Tasmania in 1976; since then our rambling building on Davey St in Hobart has been the heart of activist enthusiasm and activity.
		The Wilderness Society Tasmania is campaigning to protect Tasmania's old growth forests.
	www.wilderness.org.au /regions/tas (1218 words)

	Tasmanian Real Estate - Cradle Mountain wilderness properties for sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The flora and fauna of this region is prolific, often rare and a source of study.
		It is possible to view echidnas, wallabies, wombats and sometimes even Tasmanian Devils from the car as you drive up to the mountain through the native bush.
		The rainbow trout feed on the Snow Cattis moth which hatches on top of the water, and this is one of the reasons the area has become a great place to fish.
	www.gotas.info /property (541 words)

	Goldman Prize: Recipient Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		That same year, however, the Tasmanian state government announced its plan to open up the region to mining, forestry and hydroelectric development, including a dam that would have flooded vast areas of rainforest, the world's last stands of ancient Huon Pine and ice-age archaeological sites.
		Brown was leader of the Green Party in the Tasmanian Parliament from 1989 to 1992, when the Greens held the balance of power.
		Brown is now a national spokesperson for Australia's Green Party, which he helped to establish in 1992, and in 1996 was elected to the Australian Senate in Canberra where he and a fellow Green hold the critical balance of power in the 76 seat chamber.
	www.goldmanprize.org /recipients/recipientProfile.cfm?recipientID=4 (418 words)

	Tasmanian Tours & Travel
		Pam and John Usher, owners of triple 1997 Tasmanian Tourism Award winning Tasmanian Wilderness Travel (TassieLINK), have diversified their investment in Tasmania with the purchase of TRC Travel and Tours and the Tigerline 5 star tour and charter operation.
		In Tasmania, the family's aim is to build on their existing Tigerline and TRC Travel business and to develop a quality coach based organization, with the focus on international and mainland Australian markets.
		In doing so, the "Tasmanian Travel Group" is the state's most progressive coach operator, with an emphasis on safety, comfort and friendly efficiency.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/tours/tasmanian_tt.htm (416 words)

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