MARK COLVIN: The controversy over the logging of Tasmania's old growth forests has reached the United Nations. The UN's World Heritage Committee is meeting in New Zealand, and today it ordered an ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Tasmania's independent dominated upper house is voting on whether to accept or reject the state ...

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, meeting in Bonn in Germany, yesterday unanimously called on Australia to ensure that logging and mining remained banned across the “entire” 1.58 million hectare ...

Logging of native forests is set to resume near the famed Derby mountain bike trails after an environmental group failed in its bid to escalate its battle to the High Court. On Tuesday, lawyers for ...

An environmental group has won a temporary injunction against the logging of two north-west forestry coupes – in the wake of revelations Tasmanian logging may have been illegal for decades. Blue Derby ...

An environmental group has gone to drastic lengths to stop logging at a coupe in the state’s south. Pictures from the protest at the coupe. Grassroots Tasmania has been attempting to stop logging in ...

Two forest activists protesting against the clearfelling of native forest in north-western Tasmania have become the first people charged under the state's controversial anti-protest laws. John Henshaw ...

Eight people have been arrested in two anti-logging protests in Tasmania as the state government spruiks the progress of its forestry peace deal. Six members of the Still Wild Still Threatened (SWST) ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. Grassroots Tasmania has been attempting to stop logging in the location that joins onto the vast Tasmanian ...