Where is Takayna Tarkine?
Where is Takayna Tarkine?
west Tasmania
The Tarkine (indigenous name: takayna), officially takayna / Tarkine, is an area containing the Savage River National Park in the north west Tasmania, Australia, which environmental non-government organisations (ENGOs) claim contains significant areas of wilderness.
What is happening to the tarkine?
takayna / Tarkine is currently under attack from logging, mining and off-road vehicle damage. Over 90% of the natural values in takayna / Tarkine are largely intact. But these values are under threat from acid mine drainage, deforestation and contamination of waterways by proposed new mines.
Is the tarkine protected?
It should also be one of the easiest in the world to protect. Comprising just seven percent of Tasmania, the Tarkine contains the nation’s largest temperate rainforest, a galaxy of its rare and endangered wildlife and some of the richest Aboriginal heritage in the hemisphere.
What is Save the tarkine?
A video message from Bob Brown explaining how you can help our Foundation to produce a short film to promote the incredible wilderness of Tasmania’s Tarkine. The mining industry wants to dig up Australia’s largest temperate rainforest. We want it to be a World Heritage Area.
How much of the Tarkine has been logged?
This means that with effect of April 2020, 356 000 hectares can be released for logging, a huge part of which is in the Tarkine. The Tarkine is one of the most pristine forests in the world and is the largest temperate rainforest in Australia.
Is the Tarkine World Heritage?
The Greens will nominate the takayna/Tarkine for World Heritage Listing by the World Heritage Committee (WHC). The takayna/Tarkine is a pristine remnant of Gondwana, and of an Aboriginal culture and connection to land stretching over 40,000 years.
How much of the Tarkine is protected?
Adding to the threat is the fact that less than 5% of the Tarkine is protected as a National Park, which leaves it vulnerable to illegal poaching and arson.
Is the tarkine World Heritage?
How long does the tarkine drive take?
about 3.5 hours
Driving Times for the Tarkine Drive It takes about 3.5 hours to do the loop with no stops. But many of the stops will take you an hour or more, so it’s best to split the trip up over several days.
How much of the tarkine is protected?
What is the main threat to the Tasmanian rain forest today?
Logging, mining, and off-road vehicle recreation are all threats outside the World Heritage Site and fire is the biggest threat throughout the region. Fires eliminate rainforest, replacing it with mixed forest and scrub.
How old is the Tarkine?
Fossils between 100-700 million years old, algal stromatolite fossils, were found around the Arthur and Julius Rivers and are Tasmania’s oldest known fossils. The Tarkine is a mix of rainforest, wet and dry eucalypt forest, mixed forest, riverine, heathland, moorland and coastal ecosystems.
What do we do for takayna and Tarkine?
What do we do? Bob Brown Foundation organises protests and scientific, cultural and adventure events in takayna / Tarkine. We broadcast the threats to this wild place with films, images and literature and prepare compelling economic arguments in favour of protection.
Is the Tarkine on the National Heritage List?
The Aboriginal heritage coastline that was placed on the National Heritage list still suffers severe damage to its cultural values from off-road vehicles. The Tarkine remains a stronghold for Earth’s largest living marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian Devil.
Why is the Tarkine rainforest important to Tasmania?
It should also be one of the easiest in the world to protect. Comprising just seven percent of Tasmania, the Tarkine contains the nation’s largest temperate rainforest, a galaxy of its rare and endangered wildlife and some of the richest Aboriginal heritage in the hemisphere.
Are there any magnesite karst systems in takayna Tarkine?
Magnesite karst systems of caves and pinnacles considered internationally rare. takayna / Tarkine is currently under attack from logging, mining and off-road vehicle damage. Over 90% of the natural values in takayna / Tarkine are largely intact.
