Tasmania's old growth forests win heritage protection

[Stibb]

From the Age today:

"The World Heritage Committee meeting in Phnom Penh on Monday approved a 170,000 ha. extension of the state's world heritage wilderness, taking in the wild eucalypt forests fringing its eastern boundary."

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/tasma ... z2X6sKjzBL

Nothing about this on UNESCOs page but I guess they will update soon
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/181/

[stepbystep]

It's a good news day

[taswegian]

Must agree its good.
Is there a map showing areas listed? I'm interested in The Western Tiers section.

[Hallu]

Yeah good news but as Taswegian mentions, they tend to omit the map on those kinds of things. It's incredibly hard to find newly created parks' boundaries.

[stepbystep]

There was a bad map on Burke's epk.
It's my understanding it follows the TFA boundaries but I could be wrong and I'm not counting chickens there's already chatter in the newsroom here that it won't be ratified...

[tastrax]

The layers are actually on the public LIST map. The TFA layers are all there, but I am not sure that the updated WHA boundary has yet made it to LIST (we need to give them a bit of time I suppose)

Here is how you get them

Choose your normal map - topo is probably best
Then under layers, go to Reserves and add the TFA layer and the WHA boundary. I reckon it will get updated in the next few days

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I will check some other areas that I know a bit better and see if the WHA boundary has changed. Check the legend on the right for what the shaded areas mean.

[tastrax]

Just checked - still the old WHA boundaries and there is nothing in the attributes of the TFA layer that tells you which blocks are WHA and which ones are not.

[Nuts]

I couldn't find proposal listings online? So includes coastal 'Tarkine'? Or some other time perhaps? Nyhow.. yeah, all good.

[Stibb]

Not sure why it is not mentioned at all here. Three other extensions are listed but nothing about Tasmania

http://whc.unesco.org/en/newproperties/

[Stibb]

Here's a map (links to a pdf)

http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ ... /map-1.pdf

More on the proposal here which is what I assume got the green light.
http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ ... index.html

Seems no-one at the meeting in Cambodia knew about this though. Did the gov actually send it to the right place? Maybe Aus post stuffed up...

[stepbystep]

Here 'tis

[taswegian]

Thanks for links.
Hadn't looked in LIST. I see some of that land around The Tiers is Crown, other Forestry owned. Mostly bordered by Gunns.
It concerned me the face of those beautiful ranges were destined for the chop.
Good they are now reserved.