
Join us as a Global Voice for World Heritage

Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

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The proposal to de-list parts of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area is a proposal to carve out a beautiful, bio-diverse, culturally significant part of our lungs.
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Comedian & talk show host

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Author

I don't want to be part of the generation that let our World Heritage Forests get destroyed. Having said that, I don't want any generation ever to be that generation.
Comedian

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It’s just so blindingly obvious to anyone with any scientific knowledge of ecology that we should preserve the forests.
Science broadcaster & writer

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Author

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These forests are our shared history and there's no need to cut them down - we have other more sustainable ways to create the products we need.
Musician

World Heritage listing of Tasmania's forests reflected an undertaking made in good faith backed by good science. Delisting these forests reflects its opposite.
Former ALP Minister & conservationist

Musician

It is past time to draw the line for the sake of all species, including our own.
Veterinarian, rhino specialist, President of SOS Rhino

Playwright

Former Professional Surfer

Director, Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary

Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network

A real patriot must always be prepared to fight to defend his/her country against the government. Once again, if we don’t fight, we lose.
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Social commentator & Author

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CEO Greenpeace Australia Pacific

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Logging these forests would be madness. The industry doesn't want to cut them, no market will buy the wood and the community wants them protected.
Australian Greens Leader

Co-founder of 350.org, American environmentalist, author, & journalist

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Australian Football League coach

These truly magnificent forests must remain World Heritage listed for our future generations.
Actor & Model

Breathe in and breathe out. I am in the Forest, Forest in me.
(Tsuji Shin'ichi)
Anthropologist, activist, founder of Sloth Club

Film, stage and interior designer

Environmentalist

Founder Winsome Constance Kindness Trust

Musician

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Our national forests are an asset that hold far more value than any short term financial gain. This land belongs to all of us and it is our duty to protect it.
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We have a responsibility to our children and this country's future generations, to protect these World Heritage listed forests
Writer/Actor

Mother nature is fighting hard to hang on. We must not let her down and fight with all we have to defend Tasmania's forests.
Managing Director, Sea Shepherd Australia

We have a responsibility to future generations to ensure these forests remain World Heritage.
Actor

These forests are too beautiful to destroy.
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The unique beauty and wonder of these precious forests must be protected.
Actor

The Tassie Devil is headed for extinction like the Tasmanian Tiger. It's unAustralian to not give the devils a fighting chance by protecting as much of their habitat as possible.
BBC's Kangaroo Dundee

Comedian

There is a reason Tasmania's forests are World Heritage listed. These places are incredible and once they're gone they won't come back.
Musician

Actor

Tread lightly on the earth, there is only one.
Actor

Tasmania is such a spectacular and special part of the world, every effort should be made to preserve all of its magic.
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'Oh Tasmania
The hardest heart would understand
Just to feel your wilderness
Your silence sings to me'
Musician

We need to keep and protect our old growth forests. World Heritage must remain World Heritage
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Barrister & writer

Executive Director Foundation Earth & Founder of the Rainforest Action Network

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Our quality of life is not shaped by a quick dollar, rather by the values which we deem most important and the environment we choose to surround ourselves with.
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These forests are among the world's glories. The Australian Government should be protecting, not destroying these areas of beauty & ecological importance.
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Author and Host, The Story of Stuff

National Director, GetUp!

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The Australian Government has applied to the World Heritage Committee to remove 74 000 hectares of forests from the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. The World Heritage Committee will consider the government’s proposal in June 2014.
This is a crucial moment for World Heritage Areas globally. If the Australian Government is successful in removing World Heritage listing to allow for industrial exploitation, it sets a chilling international precedent.
Tasmania has the tallest flowering trees on Earth. In 2013, after decades of community campaigning, large tracts of forests were added to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Now, less than a year later, they are in danger of being destroyed by logging and firebombing.
Thanks to everyone who wrote to the Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee, speaking up for Tasmania’s forests and ensuring that World Heritage is forever, everywhere.
Global Voices queries to jenny@bobbrown.org.au
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