[Greens-Media] Tarkine: Senate move for World Heritage study

[Bennett, Ebony (Sen B. Brown)]

Wednesday, 9 August 2006

Tarkine: Senate move for World Heritage study

Nation Greens Leader Bob Brown will move in the Senate tomorrow that:

	"The Senate calls on the Government to assess Tasmania's Tarkine
wilderness with a view to nomination for listing for its World Heritage
values, including those related to its:
		a)	Aboriginal values
		b)	non-Aboriginal values
		c)	natural, forest and wildlife values
		d)	wilderness values; and 
		e)	geological values


"The Tarkine has enormous potential to attract the world to northwest
Tasmania," Senator Brown said.

"It deserves World Heritage status but that process first warrants an
assessment of it values, in the lead up to a nomination by the state and
federal governments. My motion is to get the World Heritage ball
rolling," Senator Brown said.

Further information: Ebony Bennett 0409 164 603


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Ebony Bennett
Media Adviser
Office of Greens Senator Bob Brown
Mobile: 0409 164 603
Ph: (02) 6277 3170
Fax: (02) 6277 3185
ebony.bennett at aph.gov.au