3+ hour, 14+ min ago  (350+ words) A Tasmanian echidna is so different from its mainland relatives that a University of Tasmania researcher initially wondered whether they might be separate species. Associate Professor Stewart Nicol from the School of Natural Sciences has published a new review challenging…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (385+ words) The sale of Tasmania's largest farm to Britain's biggest forestry investor has been approved, opening the door for thousands of hectares of dairy and beef country to be turned into pine plantation. Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has signed off on…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (333+ words) The Tasmanian government is not considering new laws to protect Neil the seal, Premier Jeremy Rockliff says, despite growing calls for a formal management plan for the viral animal. Neil has returned to the greater Hobart area in the state's…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (381+ words) Almost 5, 000 people have signed a petition urging authorities to rule out euthanising Neil the seal, after a wildlife official warned it could not be taken off the table. The Change. org petition has attracted more than 4, 600 signatures in the 24 hours…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (275+ words) Kettering's Raptor Refuge is offering a $10, 000 reward for information leading to the prosecution of whoever cable-tied the legs of a white-bellied sea eagle found near Evandale. "One would assume it's been tethered," Webb told Pulse. "It's a despicable act." Raptor…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (428+ words) Tasmania's feral deer bill could balloon from $53 million a year to almost $300 million by 2054, new economic modelling warns, as numbers continue to climb. The report, prepared by Frontier Economics for the Invasive Species Council, found deer in the Midlands and…...

1+ mon, 14+ hour ago  (341+ words) More than 165 orange-bellied parrots have left their breeding grounds at Melaleuca in Tasmania's south-west on their annual migration north to the mainland. The flock includes adults that have made the journey before, wild-born juveniles from this season and captive-bred young…...

1+ mon, 16+ hour ago  (297+ words) Work has begun to redevelop the long-closed Dismal Swamp tourist site in Tasmania's far north-west. The attraction, on the edge of the takayna/Tarkine Wilderness and about a 90-minute drive from Burnie, has sat empty since 2020. The state and federal…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (366+ words) Tasmania's native forest logging industry will soon be regulated under federal environment law for the first time in decades. The Tasmanian and federal governments announced on Tuesday they would negotiate a bilateral agreement covering the future of forestry in the…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (441+ words) Young endangered Maugean skates have survived to adulthood in Macquarie Harbour for the first time since monitoring began, offering a glimmer of hope for the species" recovery. Researchers from the University of Tasmania"s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies…...