Two forest activists protesting against the clearfelling of native forest in north-western Tasmania have become the first people charged under the state's controversial anti-protest laws. John Henshaw ...

Lawyers for the Wilderness Society Tasmania are challenging the FPA’s decision to allow logging in Huon Valley forests identified as critical to the species’ survival. Right to Information documents ...

Forestry Tasmania, the forest service of Tasmania, has signed an agreement with environmental activists to cease logging activities in the Upper Florentine Valley of the island. The moratorium will ...

It's recently become a semi-regular occurrence in the Hobart Magistrate's Court. "This matter is scheduled for hearing today," defence counsel Richard Griggs told the court. "Instead, the prosecution ...

Negotiations between conservationists and the timber industry, first revealed by The Australian in May, have entered sensitive final stages. The peak conservation, industry and trade union groups ...