Fire, heat, and drought threaten to destroy Tasmania's alpine relict forests. We need conservation through custodianship.
Fire, heat, and drought threaten to destroy Tasmania's alpine relict forests. We need conservation through custodianship.
We at The Gondwana Project Inc. acknowledge and pay our respects to all Tasmanian Aboriginal people and groups as the owners and continuing custodians of the land on which we work today. We pay our respect to Elders past and present, and acknowledge the enduring connection of Tasmanian Aboriginal people to Country, culture, and community.
Additionally, we acknowledge that we at The Gondwana Project Inc. are in no way the first people to suggest active custodianship of Australian/Tasmanian environments, nor do we suggest that our approach is infallible or particularly original. All credit for these notions are better directed to Australia's first people.
Tasmania is getting hotter and dryer. The science has been done, and we're beginning to see the patterns of local climate change play out before us. Hotter and dryer weather means more fires will run through our forests. Some of our native trees can use that fire to reproduce and spread, but many can't. And unless we as the people of Tasmania step up as custodians, we'll lose those vulnerable relict species before we know it. Let's not let our relict alpine forests become the next Thylacine.
After watching several years of uncharacteristically hot and dry summers, we at The Gondwana Project, a team from varying backgrounds brought together by our passion for the unique forests of Tasmania, decided that more needed to be done to protect and conserve Tasmania's relict forests from the threats of heat, drought, and bushfire. Research suggests that if nothing is done, the Gondwanan relict forests will be lost, so we've decided to do everything we can to prevent this.
An ancient krummholz King Billy Pine (Athrotaxus cupressoides) from the Tasmanian West Coast Mountains
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