Ta Ann Tasmania

Changes to the political environment in recent years have ended a 2013 Australian Government-sponsored truce in the long-running forestry debate with a pact called the Tasmanian Forest Agreement (TFA).

That agreement protected some 504,000 ha of native forests – with 170,000 ha added to the World Heritage Area (WHA) and 100,000 into forest reserves immediately, and the balance temporarily protected pending further investigation.

Importantly, the TFA also secured for industry a guaranteed supply of logs from permanent timber production state forests.

Under the aegis of the TFA, Ta Ann entered into a Market Compact with Environmental Non-Government Organisations (ENGOs) to only accept logs supplied from State Forest areas that had been agreed for long term sustainable wood supply.

The Tasmanian Parliament ended that agreement and conservation groups no longer support it.

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