Tarkine Bushwalk Programme
Through the 2005 Tasmanian Community Forest Agreement, the Australian and Tasmanian Governments have agreed to additional large reserves in the Tarkine, totalling 73,512 hectares, to further protect the significant tract of cool temperate rainforest found there. A new formal reserve of 30,946 hectares will now consolidate the Savage River and Donaldson wilderness areas.
The creation of new formal reserves in the northwest will result in formal reservation of about 308,000 hectares, stretching from north of the Arthur River to south of the Pieman River and from the shores of the west coast to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage area near Cradle Mountain. With the addition of the new reserves, 87 per cent of the Tarkine area will be protected in reserves. The reserves will protect a largely undisturbed extensive tract of rainforest identified by ecologists and conservationists as significant on a global scale.
Under the Tarkine Bushwalk Programme, $1 million will be provided to assist the development of bushwalking and related infrastructure in the Tarkine region.
Proposals that involve bushwalking and related infrastructure in the Tarkine region may also be funded out of the broader Tasmanian Forest Tourism Development Programme, where they focus on the new reserves created as part of the Tasmanian Community Forest Agreement.
For more information please the Tasmanian Forest Tourism Initiative Guide to Applications.
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