The News Review:
- The environment must come first
- ‘Demoralizing’ setback in fight to save Tasmanian devil
- Two injured in ultralight crash in Tasmania
- End of an era in Tasmania’s Great Lakes
- Fork in the Road: A culinary tour of Bruny Island
The environment must come first
The Canberra Times Australia
But another pressing concern in Australia is creating jobs to counter the impact of the global financial crisis. Those two factors are on a collision course in Tasmania as the Gunns company doggedly persists with its plan to build a pulp mill. The project would create jobs but would pour 64 million litres of effluent into Bass Strait every day. The pipeline would take the discharge 3km offshore but how much pollutant is going to be dumped into the ocean and what will be the effect on the maritime environment?Whales swim in those waters and scallops are farmed nearby. Tasmania trades to the nation and the world on the strength of its pristine environment. Therefore any damage to water quality from the mill would have significant implications for other jobs in tourism and the fishing wine beer and honey industries.
‘Demoralizing’ setback in fight to save Tasmanian devil
International Herald Tribune France
Researchers believed the 3-year-old male marsupial was immune to a devastating facial cancer that has pushed the species to the brink of extinction. But last month Cedric's handlers discovered two small tumors on his cheek – a major setback in the search for a vaccine. Now some scientists want to build a fence on Tasmania the Australian southern island to protect the last disease-free devils from the infectious cancer that has killed more than half the wild devil population since it was discovered in 1996. Devil facial tumor disease – which is spread when the animals bite each other – causes swollen ulcerating wounds around the eyes and mouth. nce infected wild devils eventually die of starvation when the tumors grow so large that they can no longer eat or drink. Researchers at the University of Tasmania warn the cancer is spreading so rapidly that there may be no disease-free devils left in the wild within 5 years and that the species could be extinct entirely within 20 years. Wild devils live only in Tasmania.
Two injured in ultralight crash in Tasmania
Melbourne Herald Sun Australia
article-tools –> January 07 2009 07:46pm TW men have been injured after an ultralight aircraft crashed on Flinders Island. Police say the aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from a private strip on the Bass Strait island off Tasmania’s north-east tip about 4. ne of the men has a leg injury while the other has a broken jaw a Tasmania Ambulance Service spokesman said. They are being treated at the Flinders Island multi-purpose centre and will be flown by air ambulance to the Launceston Hospital. Share this article.
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End of an era in Tasmania’s Great Lakes
Stock and Land Australia
So when asked what it was like to lose his family?s lease in Tasmania?s rugged Great Lakes district it is Mrs Jones who replies ?it is heart breaking?Mr Jones simply nods his head and stares wistfully into the rugged dry hills surrounding his Clairveaux property. Mrs Jones said she is not looking for a shoulder to cry on but the fact is that their family ending a practice that dates back four generations stands as an end to Tasmanian grazing in the Great Lakes area. From now on their downsized flock of 8000 Merinos and 200 Poll Hereford cattle will remain at their 2834-hectare home property. But with zero pasture growth from May-August Mr Jones is not looking forward to next winter. Last year marked the first in 20 years that the Jones family had not saddled up their horses for the six-day ride droving 4500 head fine Merino sheep across the harsh Tasmanian Great Lakes country from the family?s Clairveaux property north of use. Extract from story to appear in Stock & Land January 8.
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Fork in the Road: A culinary tour of Bruny Island
Inside Bay Area CA
at the edge of the world. ” Welcome to Tasmania’s Bruny Island a popular weekend and holiday escape for the residents of Hobart the state capital 25 miles away. A 15-minute ferry ride from the “mainland” town of Kettering will deliver you across the D’Entrecasteaux Channel to Bruny which is actually two separate islands connected by an isthmus. The stunning scenery abundant wildlife (Bennett’s wallabies fairy penguins wombats birds whales and dolphins) a notable National Park (South Bruny NP) and outdoor activities from sea kayaking and fishing to bush walking have made seasonal tourism Bruny’s top economic industry outside of fishing and farming. In summer (which in the Southern Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(“adPosBox”); Hemisphere is now) the population can swell to up to 4000 as visitors retreat to holiday homes B & B’s and a variety of quirky self-contained lodgings that range from farmhouses to cottages.