Tasmanian Conservation Trust Inc.

Caring for Tasmania since 1968

Working to protect Tasmania

The Tasmanian Conservation Trust (TCT) is the only Tasmanian conservation organisation that involves itself in the full range of conservation issues. Founded in 1968, it is the longest continuing environment organisation in Tasmania. As a non-political organisation, it can engage with government, industry and the wider community in a non-confrontationist manner to achieve genuine, on-ground conservation outcomes.

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Latest News

4.5.2012: TCT media release: New Zealand council-owned company set to clear large area of native forest in NW Tasmania, including destroying Tasmanian devil habitat. (See also open letter to New Plymouth District Councillors) more

4.5.2012: TCT Open Letter to all Councillors, New Plymouth District Council re proposal to clear a large area of native forest in north-west Tasmania including habitat of the endangered Tasmanian devil.

4.5.2012: Public forum (Tuesday 22 May, 7pm, Baha'i Centre) to discuss the natural values of Mt Wellington and why significant development should not be allowed more

27.4.2012: TCT submission to the Draft Development Proposal and Environmental Management Plan, Tasmanian Devil Translocation, Maria Island National Park more

27.4.2012: TCT submission to the Inquiry into the Operation and Administration of the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service more

20.4.2012: TCT media release: TCT Supreme Court challenge to the Tamar Valley pulp mill permit - Gunns' costs order application dismissed more

20.4.2012: Tasmanian Conservation Trust Inc v Gunns Ltd. Reasons for Judgment more

18.4.2012: Latest issue of the Tasmanian Conservationist (#325) more

16.4.2012: TCT media release: Minister Bryan Green puts Tasmania's most vulnerable people at risk of chemical contamination more

4.4.2012: TCT media release: IGA deal must deliver on forest biodiversity as well as new reserves more

30.3.2012: TCT and AACT media release: Tasmanian autumn killing of short-tailed shearwaters continues more

28.3.2012: 'The Rock Lobster Crisis: The Real Story'. TCT responds to recent media reports more

17.3.2012: Media release: TCT welcomes Tasmanian Government invasive species announcements more

16.3.2012: Media release: TCT position on legal action in regard to the Tasmanian rock lobster industry - correcting media misrepresentations more

8.3.2012: Medial release: Autumn: the killing season for Tasmanian native birds more

Campaigns

Public reserve management
Public reserve
management
*

Water
Water

Wildlife
Wildlife
**

Invasive species
Invasive species

Marine environment and wild fisheries
Marine environment
& wild fisheries
*

Forests on public land
Forests on
public land

Threatened species
Threatened
species
***

Private land biodiversity
Private land
biodiversity

Planning
Planning

Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous

 

*photo: Jon Bryan
††photo: Dave Watts
***photo: David James
† Wayne Lawler
‡photo: D Panther
**photo: Jon Delaine