Still threatened, Still fighting: Tassie Forests Frontline

Sunday, 1 March 2020 - 11:00am to 11:30am

A woman perches high up in a giant eucalyptus tree on a tree-sit platform. She is wearing a helmet and sheltered by a tarp, and she is waving. Two water storage containers and a banner saying Protect Takayna/Tarkine dangle from the platform. The lush forest canopy is visible in the background.

Still threatened, Still fighting: Tassie forests frontline

Lisa Searle (Bob Brown Foundation) gets us up to speed with the rapidly shifting landscape of forest activism in Tasmania - as the end of the logging moratorium that came out of the 2013 so-called forest peace deal is rapidly approaching.

Closing track is 'Born in This Time', by Natalie Fallah from the N.E.F.A album Lock On! Songs to Save Australia's Forests available on Bandcamp

Earth Matters #1233 was produced by Nicky Stott

Earth Matters

A banner that's painted in the aboriginal flag colours. The banner says Always Was Always Will Be

Sunday 11:00am to 11:30am

Local and global environmental issues from grassroots, activist perspectives with a strong social justice focus. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.