Jacquie Petrusma,Minister for Parks The Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS) is preparing for the upcoming bushfire season with an extensive planned.
Guy Barnett,Minister for Resources
The Tasmanian Liberal Government is the strongest supporter of our sustainably managed forests and pleased that this knowledge is now being shared with Tasmanian students.
Today is Schools Tree Day and Sustainable Timber Tasmania and the Forest Education Foundation have partnered to provide seedlings and educational resources to 40 participating schools.
Twenty five of these schools have also expressed interest to host foresters from STT to plant trees with students and three schools, Sheffield, Sorrel and Scottsdale, are hosting full-day events on their school farms.
During these events, multiple classes participate in tree planting of seedlings from STT’s Perth nursery and enjoy forest learning activities with teachers from the Forest Education Foundation.
Jacquie Petrusma,Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Management
Tasmania Police’s new $2 million Radio Dispatch Centre has been officially opened as part of the Tasmanian Liberal Government’s plan to keep Tasmanians safe.
The RDS processes on average over 1500 emergency and inquiry calls a day, and had occupied the same workspace for more than 30 years since the original opening in July 1990.
We want to be able to provide our hard-working and high-quality RDS staff with best-practice technology and equipment and the new upgrade allows us to do that.
Funding was supplied via our $567 million TasGRN project, with the floor that RDS occupies redeveloped to create a new space for RDS operations together with development of a business continuity and training site specifically for Ambulance and Fire.
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Late last year, Dr Matthew Webb arrived at a patch of forest on the east coast of Tasmania expecting to find swift parrots feeding on the creamy white eucalyptus blossom and flitting, with distinctive speed, to nearby nesting trees.
Dr Webb has been studying these birds â the fastest parrot on Earth â and their summer breeding sites in Tasmania for more than 15 years.
Bob Brown Foundation campaigner Jenny Weber in a logging coupe in the Huon Valley, Tasmania. The area of old-growth forest next to it, which is typical swift parrot habitat, is due to be logged soon.
Credit:Jason South
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