The Tarkine Rainforest Corridor

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The Rainforests of the Tarkine, some 177 000 hectares, include the largest unbroken stand of rainforest in Australia. These rainforests are recognised as being one of the most significant tracts of temperate rainforest on earth, and are under imminent threat.

The basalt soils of North-West Tasmania provide prime conditions for luxuriant rainforest growth, and the rainforests of the Tarkine make up the largest tract of tall rainforest in Tasmania. In tall rainforest, Myrtle trees can grow up to 40m tall and 4m in diameter.
The tall (callidendrous) rainforests of the Tarkine, with their dense canopy and understorey; being carpeted by a vast array of mosses, lichens and ferns, resemble well tended botanical gardens.

The wilderness rainforests at the heart of the Tarkine was assessed as 'high-quality wilderness' as part of the Regional Forest Agreement and has been recommended for protection and World Heritage nomination on a number of occasions. The Tarkine currently has a nomination for National Heritage with Senator Ian Campbell, Federal Environment Minister.

The Tarkine and its rainforests, having survived unchanged for many millenia before white man arrived to Tasmania, are a global treasure. Any damage to the integrity and long-term preservation of this wilderness is unacceptable in today's world.

Please help us in our campaign to preserve the spectacular Tarkine, by intensively lobbying State and Federal politicians, writing to newspapers, and becoming involved in the Tarkine Campaign..

Australia's tropical and sub-tropical rainforests were successfully nominated for World Heritage in the 1980s. Specifically these areas are the Wet Tropics of Queensland, and the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves. The Tarkine, with its 177 000 hectares of temperate rainforest, deserves the same level of protection.

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