Masked owls have continued to inhabit Tasmanian forest areas after timber harvesting operations, according to encouraging new acoustic monitoring results from Sustainable Timbers Tasmania. Owls remain ...

Nature in Australia’s smallest state is in poor health, but this has been largely ignored by both major parties in the lead-up to the early state election ...

Chinese-owned mining giant MMG has proposed a new tailings storage facility at its Rosebery mine site in northwest Tasmania. Credit: Courtesy of the Bob Brown Foundation. In northwest Tasmania, an ...

In Tasmania, timber-getters and conservationists tussle over the fate of Australia’s tallest hardwoods Some call it a swamp gum, a bland name for a tree like this one: a giant spear exploding from the ...

The Tasmanian Conservation Trust is worried about a push to maximise the scale of new forest reserves by relaxing logging practices in the remaining production forests. This trade-off would result in ...

A recent Ph.D. graduate's excavation of an ancient forest near Strahan in western Tasmania exceeded expectations with the discovery of new plant species. Fossils were discovered during a 2020 ...

Kingsley Dixon's trip abroad could have been perfect. After all, the acclaimed Australian botanist won the "plant Olympics" with a gold for his rare orchid at the Chelsea Flower Show in England. But a ...