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Albanese government reaffirms decision to allow salmon farming in Tasmania, despite fears for endangered Maugean skate

Environmental groups had lodged a reconsideration request over a 2012 decision to allow for the expansion of salmon farming

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Animal welfare probe amid mass salmon farm deaths

An animal welfare body is investigating an aquaculture company operating in southern Tasmania, where more than 5500 tonnes of salmon have died.

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Animal welfare probe after live salmon sealed in bins

Footage from an aquaculture farm in southern Tasmania has shown live salmon being sealed in bins amid mass fish deaths in the region.

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Endangered salmon farm talk stirs hot political waters

An increase in Tasmania's Maugean skate population has reportedly prompted the prime minister to assure the salmon farming sector of its continued existence.

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How badly do Tasmanians want to protect nature? The state election may provide answers

The major parties have been all but silent on the environment this campaign, while the Greens say more nature should be protected

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Court orders temporary halt to logging in Tasmanian forest ahead of swift parrot case

Bob Brown Foundation wants logging banned in area of forest south of Hobart, claiming it is breeding habitat for endangered bird

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Coles, Woolworths and Aldi ‘responsibly sourced’ salmon labels may be misleading, watchdog told

Environmental groups allege some of the supermarkets’ salmon is from Tasmanian farms reportedly having ‘catastrophic’ impact on ancient Maugean skate

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Win for island wind farm despite rare parrot concerns

A requirement for a proposed wind farm project to shut down for five months to safeguard a critically endangered parrot has been overturned.

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The massacre of Tasmania’s forests could be stopped at any time. Where are Australia’s leaders?

The tallest flowering trees on Earth reduced to stumps and a fernery maybe millions of years old razed to the ground – and this butchery is condoned

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‘National disgrace’: protest after tree estimated to be hundreds of years old cut down in Tasmania

Sustainable Timber Tasmania said the giant tree pictured on the truck had been assessed and felled ‘for safety reasons’

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Tasmanian court sentences environmental activist to jail for first time in more than a decade

Protester Colette Joan Harmsen says she committed offences due to ‘worsening climate crisis’ and is not a ‘menace to society’

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How Tasmania’s anti-protest laws drove Bob Brown back to frontline activism

After decades of environmental campaigning, the former Greens leader says optimism and looking after each other are critical to climate fight

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Court throws out Bob Brown Foundation challenge to MMG mine lease

An environmental group has lost its latest court battle with a mining company that's planning to build a controversial new tailings dam in Tasmania's west.

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Bob Brown lashes court mining lease ruling

The Bob Brown Foundation has lost a court challenge related to a contentious mining waste dam proposal in Tasmania.

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Bob Brown Foundation, Sea Shepherd Global say krill super trawlers 'ploughing' through whale pods

Two environmental groups are calling for krill fishing to be outlawed, saying super trawlers are endangering pods of whales in the Southern Ocean.

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