Takayna
Needs World Heritage Protection
Takayna / Tarkine in north-west Tasmania is one of Earth’s last truly wild places. But this globally significant rainforest is more threatened than ever before — by new mines, logging, and deforestation for a proposed heavy metals mine waste dump.
In this age of climate and extinction crises, where intact rainforests, native forests, clean air and water, and wildlife habitat are vanishing, we must urgently protect Takayna. The ancient forests here are made up of giant myrtle trees, leatherwoods, celery-top pines, sassafras and a host of smaller understorey plants. Moss and fungi blanket almost every surface, climbing skyward along the trunks of giant eucalypts and myrtles.
It is a stronghold for Earth’s largest marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian Devil, and critical habitat for the Tasmanian Masked Owl, Wedge-tailed Eagles (the nation’s largest birds of prey), Spotted-tailed Quolls, and the Giant Freshwater Crayfish.
Takayna is also an Aboriginal living landscape with a globally significant history and ongoing cultural importance. Benefits of a World Heritage listed Takayna National Park Our campaign is determined to secure the permanent protection of 495,000 hectares of Takayna in a World Heritage listed national park returned to Aboriginal ownership.
Benefits of a World Heritage listed Takayna National would:
- guard critical habitat for species so that they can thrive in nature, unimpacted by human disturbance
- provide local community employment and food security
- protect vitally important clean air and water and regulate the heating planet
