Environmentalists have described yesterday’s detonation of more than 20 ‘regeneration burns’ in Tasmania’s forests as a day of horror for the Tasmanian wilds.

Australia’s leading environmentalists for 2025 have been recognised by the Bob Brown Foundation at its annual event in Hobart.

Just over a year since its last state election, Tasmania is about to return to the polls, as the beautiful but troubled island state sinks further into debt and dysfunction.

Yesterday, more than 6,000 people gathered on Parliament Lawns in Hobart for Bob Brown Foundation's rally to vote salmon out.

The Bob Brown Foundation says that a federal Liberal government, if elected, would deliver more forest killing-fields, global heating and climate pollution.

Bob Brown Foundation says dramatic photos of burnt and collapsed Huon pines beside Takayna’s Harman River put the lie to the Rockliff government’s claim that 'high-conservation stands of ancient trees have been confirmed to be intact and undamaged by the bushfires impacting Tasmania’s rugged West Coast.'

Mandy Nolan will be talking to former Greens leader Bob Brown in Murwillumbah on Friday, February 21 to look at the issues Mandy will be working on if she is elected.

A delegation of forest campaigners, scientists and activists brought the plight of forests and wildlife to federal parliament yesterday.

Environmentalists around Australia and the world are celebrating Denmark’s decision not to extradite Captain Paul Watson from a Danish prison in Greenland to Japan, former Greens leader Bob Brown said in Tasmania last night.

Yesterday, more than 7,000 people at rallies across Australia issued an urgent call to the country’s politicians to protect native forests and immediately end native forest logging.