New reserve for the Tassie tiger

[FootTrack]

What are people's thoughts on this?

Admittedly, I don't have much experience with the Tassie wilderness and I'm probably not in the best position to comment on whether I think the Tassie tiger still exists...but I would have thought there would be quite a few, more obvious, pressing conservation issues currently on the agenda that would better benefit from this time and money...

https://www.wild.com.au/news/article/ne ... er-reserve

[Hallu]

Well it's quite unclear what they intend to do.... It's not setting aside new land, it seems to be just drawing lines on a map and calling this parcel "Tassie Tiger Reserve", which is quite daft... Obviously, info panels such as "this where the Tassie Tiger would have lived blablabla" are fine, but I don't see what else they could do, really...

[tastrax]

The full report is here

http://www.tict.com.au/LiteratureRetrie ... ?ID=175970

Delivering a New Direction

The Vision

Through engagement with the tourism industry and consideration of consumers’ changing wants and needs, a broad
vision for tourism in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area has been identified:

“To deliver the most contemporary wilderness World Heritage Area experience offering shared, life changing, moments.”

The focus for the future of the TWWHA is on growing the value of the place at a low volume, and aims at attracting
visitors who are willing to pay for high value experiences.

[tastrax]

Some highlights include....

Opening access to new areas of the TWWHA through zoning changes,

.... and improving air access ....Increasing air access to the TWWHA, in particular to the Western Wilderness, to cater to visitors with a shorter length of stay, and improving the accessibility of Melaleuca- Bathurst Harbour.

Encouraging and enabling greater use of floatplanes and helicopters into the TWWHA would provide a highly
engaging and effective way for short-term visitors to Tasmania to experience the region. With amendments to the
Management Plan, potential landing sites identified as priorities for helicopter touring in the HA include:
A site on the Overland Track – subject to application of management techniques to reduce interference with the
walking experience;
• A site near the Walls of Jerusalem – to allow day access to this spectacular location;
• Fury Gorge – Australia’s deepest gorge (west of Barn Bluff and Cradle Mountain), previously a permitted
landing site;
• Great Pine Tier – over 5,000 tarns/lakes with the potential for touring and heli-fishing;
• A site along the South West track – to allow people to start the hike closer to Bathurst Harbour.

WILDERNESS AIR ACCESS ACCOMMODATION
Identifying precincts (not specific locations) suited to eco-lodge accommodation developments;
and seeking expressions of interest from the private sector, with clear guidelines and an expectation of best practice ecologically sustainable development to set a new national benchmark in quality.

Precincts with the potential to support a wilderness lodge, and identified
as priority locations for wilderness accommodation through the Reimagining
Project (see Figure 9) include:
1. Gordon River: on-water or in the wilderness, on the Gordon or nearby,
potentially as a satellite from Strahan
2. The Tarkine: as a base for a wilderness walk across the Tarkine or for
water-based adventure experiences on the Arthur River
3. Maydena/Mount Field
4. Adamsfield
5. Melaleuca-Bathurst Harbour
6. Port Davey
7. Recherche Bay

[climberman]

is it early April?

[tastrax]

Alas no its not!

For Sale - Bathurst Harbour

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[wander]

WT *$&#

[Mechanic-AL]

There can be no doubt that change is in the wind. On one hand if Tassie really wants Eco based tourism to play a major role in the states fortunes then stuff like this is inevitable. On the other hand areas that may attract a 'wilderness' tag are going to be compromised and lose what little connection they still have with true wilderness. I don't really know what to make of it all? I think if the plan is to get fat lazy ( wealthy ) people into the WHA's then I would have to be more in favour of a few more roads as opposed to squadrons of planes and choppers overhead.

I don't suppose just leaving things un-molested is an option by any chance??

AL

[FootTrack]

I don't suppose just leaving things un-molested is an option by any chance??

Pretty disappointing stuff. I only wish it was that simple/easy Al It's frustrating how everything seems to have to have a human fingerprint on it. There aren't too many places left where you can look around without seeing a sign of human intervention - which is why I love areas like SW Tassie. Once "developments" like this kick-off it's hard to imagine it being anything but a one-way street...

Some highlights include....

I don't know how they are going to do this without "interfering with the walking experience". When I walked the Overland Track last year, the Cradle Mountain area was one of the big disappointments for me. The mountain and lakes are unquestionably spectacular but the abundance of day walkers and scenic flights buzzing over head really dulled what I envisioned to be a highlight of my trip. Not to mention the rubbish in the area - I think I saw more rubbish laying by the track in that first few kilometres than what I did for the following 100 or so kilometres we walked. People who make the effort to put a pack on and to explore these areas on foot tend to look out for the environment A LOT better in my opinion.

[Strider]

The above development was a hoax related to an "art" installation by MONA, if I remember correctly.

[Mechanic-AL]

The above development was a hoax related to an "art" installation by MONA, if I remember correctly.

If only the glossy "Ecotourism Investment Profile" brochure were a hoax too.

AL