The “clean, green” brand underpinning Tasmania’s tourism, fine food and wine industries is being undermined by “excessive” logging and appalling animal welfare practices, warns one of the country’s le
The “clean, green” brand underpinning Tasmania’s tourism, fine food and wine industries is being undermined by “excessive” logging and appalling animal welfare practices, warns one of the country’s leading businesswomen.
Jan Cameron, the founder of the Kathmandu retail chain who has settled in Tasmania, told The Weekend Australian the island’s vital brand was strong but also at risk. “Brand Tasmania is very strong and they can build on that, but they are doing things at the same time to damage it,” she said. “There are a lot of activities going on that are contrary to that (brand): (fishermen) shooting seals, excessive logging and unrestricted use of 1080 (poison used to protect crops and seedlings from animals).