The News Review:
- Tasmanian devils threatened by contagious cancer
- Total fire ban for Tasmania
- Tassie beer brawl spills onto the mainland
- Last whale stranded in Australia dies
- Land group seeks $600k to protect Vale of Bellvoir
Tasmanian devils threatened by contagious cancer
guardian.co.uk UK
The Tasmanian devil a ferocious snarling fox-sized marsupial is in danger of going extinct because of a contagious facial cancer. In the meantime its biggest rival ‘” the European fox ‘” is thriving and may become so dominant that the devil never comes back. Scientists now want to build a double fence standing more than three feet tall to stop the cancer’s relentless spread toward the rugged northwest of the island home to disease-free devils and World Heritage-listed rain forest. Devils spread the cancer when they bite each other during mating or squabble over food.
Total fire ban for Tasmania
ABC Regional nline Australia
(ABC TV: Peter Healy). It says no fire permits will be issued for 24 hours from midnight tonight. Acting deputy chief fire officer Tony Davidson told ABC Local Radio it was an easy decision. “Ahead of a day such as tomorrow it really is important that we restrict the number of fires that are lit in the open” he said. Tags: disasters-and-accidents emergency-planning fires tas.
Tassie beer brawl spills onto the mainland
Sydney Morning Herald Australia
This was followed a few months later by a brand overhaul that led to new labelling and packaging for Boag’s Draught and the announcement of a $25 million expansion plan for the J. Boag & Son brewery in Launceston to accommodate expected demand and growth. Earlier this year Boag’s launched its “Fresh from Tasmanian waters” campaign again tapping into a provenance marketing strategy that played on Tasmania’s heritage and its associations with freshness purity and an unspoilt pristine idyll. The aim: to own the Tasmanian beer of choice tag long and tightly held by Foster’s Cascade brand in Australia’s mainland states. It was clear that 12 months after purchasing Boag’s Lion Nathan was firmly hitting the accelerator – all the way towards the mainland. The Boag’s trademark has grown 6 per cent since it was acquired by Lion Nathan which according to Nielsen AIS spent eight times more on advertising for Boag’s ($7. 4 million) than Foster’s spent on Cascade ($900000) in the 12 months to November 2008.
Last whale stranded in Australia dies
guardian.co.uk UK
The whales became stuck on a sandbar just off the island state of Tasmania’s northwest coast on Thursday. fficials who rushed to the site to help survivors found only seven alive and began pouring water over the semi-submerged mammals to keep them cool as they tried to devise a plan to free them. But survivor numbers dwindled each day. The last one which had hung on for more than three days but was hemmed in behind the bodies of others in the pod died Sunday afternoon. “We were aiming for a rescue but the longer the rescue took the more remote (the chances of a rescue) became and the whale died” said Warwick Brennan a spokesman for the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries.
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Land group seeks $600k to protect Vale of Bellvoir
ABC nline Australia
The Tasmanian Land Conservancy today launched its fundraising campaign to buy the Vale of Bellvoir property. Earlier Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett toured the latest addition to the national reserve system Egg Islands in the Huon River. Environmental studies lecturer at the University of Tasmania Jamie Kirkpatrick says the Vale of Bellvoir is a magical place where Tasmanian Tigers once roamed. “It’s a u-shaped valley with a pastel grassland floor filled with golden and white flowers and the slopes in the sides of the valley have pockets of black rainforest separated by button grass in between. So the colours are fantastic” he said. Tags: community-and-society environment conservation tas cradle-mountain-7306Search for news.