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NSW fundraiser no connection to Tasmania

02/10/2008

Tasmania's Parks and Wildlife Service has no connection with a telephone fundraising campaign being conducted by the New South Wales-based Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife.More

Better protection for Lillico's much-loved penguins

26/09/2008

A new viewing platform at Lillico Beach will help give better protection to the much loved North West Coast penguin colony as well as an enhanced visitor experience.
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Cooperative fuel reduction burning planned

04/09/2008

A series of fuel reduction burns will be conducted this month in Tasmania's North-East and on the West Coast as part of the inter-agency Fuel Reduction Burning Program.More

Threatened Species Kit - Threatened Plants

Extinct

Fluffy groundsel (Senecio macrocarpus)

Endangered

Native Wintercress (Barbarea australis)
Morrisbys gum (Eucalyptus morrisbyi)
Bearded heath (Epacris barbata)
Kings lomatia (Lomatia tasmanica)
Tunbridge buttercup (Ranunculus prasinus)
Davies' Waxflower (Phebalium daviesii)

Vulnerable

Border heath (Epacris limbata)
Pretty heath (Epacris virgata)
Bush pea (Pultenea prostrata)

Rare

Gaping leek orchid (Prasophyllum correctum)
Trim leek orchid (Prasophyllum concinnum)