Country, Culture, Spirit
takayna is one of Australia’s richest Aboriginal cultural landscapes.
Rainforests of takayna
takayna contains the most extensive and least fragmented areas of cool temperate rainforests in Australia.
World Heritage Values
takayna's spectacular coast, rainforest, rare wildlife and remarkable Aboriginal cultural landscape, await World Heritage listing, National Park protection, and return to Aborigina
takayna logging threats
In takayna, ancient rainforests are flattened by logging and wildlife-rich ancient eucalyptus forests are clearfelled for woodchips.
Huon Pines
A global treasure of ancient Huon pine groves has been found in the Wilson River valley south of Waratah in the takayna / Tarkine wilderness.
takayna Mining
Vast areas of takayna are covered by mining leases, which have the potential to destroy rainforests, grasslands and river systems.