Category — Asides

Forestry Tasmania has confirmed four trees in the Arve Valley, discovered last summer, will be classified as ‘giants’. As a result, they will be added to the Giant Trees Register and protected from all forestry activity.

A new addition to Tasmania’s Great Walks appears likely. A feasibility study into a proposed Three Capes Track has strongly endorsed the development of a coastal bushwalk on the Tasman Peninsula.

Tasmania’s critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrots had welcome news on two fronts today, with more than $500,000 allocated for the redevelopment of their breeding facility in Taroona, and the birds given a clean bill of health after a major disease scare.

Most of south-eastern Australia will spend six months of the year on daylight saving from next year. Victoria, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT have agreed to harmonise daylight saving time and extend it by 28 days.

DNA extracted from 50-year-old animal dung could reveal whether the Tasmanian Tiger survived beyond its reported extinction. Researchers will extract the DNA from droppings found in the 1950s and 1960s and preserved by the Tasmanian Museum.

FOI emails show timber company Gunns warned the Lennon Government that it would “get grumpy” if forced to improve plans to monitor air emissions, noise and effluent from its proposed Tasmanian pulp mill.

June 22: Tasmania’s fox eradication taskforce has 20 new field officers. The officers are based in Launceston and will be involved in strategic baiting across areas of prime fox habitat.

June 22: Tasmania Police have warned businesses in southern Hobart to be on the lookout for counterfeit $50 notes circulating in the area.

Wednesday, June 20: The Tasman Bridge over the Derwent River in Hobart was closed this morning after a crane toppled and was left dangling over the edge. Our webcam caught the eerie vision of the bridge with no traffic.