The ancient forests, mountains and coastline of takayna urgently need protection as a World Heritage-listed National Park, returned to Aboriginal ownership
takayna is Australia’s largest temperate rainforest and the second largest temperate rainforest in the world.
One of Earth’s last great wild places, it deserves secure, permanent protection.
takayna has one of the highest concentrations of Aboriginal sites in the southern hemisphere and is of ongoing cultural significance.
Cleanest air in the world
Waves, propelled by winds unimpeded by any land mass between South America and Tasmania, roll onto the wild takayna coast. The cleanest air in the world, as measured by the nearby UN monitoring station, blows across its expansive dune fields and into the forests.
We take direct action to defend takayna from the onslaught of logging and mining.
From legal tactics to the forest frontlines, our campaign is determined to secure the permanent protection of 495,000 hectares of takayna.
Our focus
Our work to protect takayna is focused on the following issues.
Blockade takayna
Our Pieman River blockade in takayna has occupied an area of south-east takayna since late 2020.
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Wildlife
The world’s largest extant carnivorous marsupial, the Tasmanian Devil, lives here.
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Trans Tarkine Track
The Trans Tarkine Track is a proposal for a new ten day walk, set to be one of the world’s great wild adventures.
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Country, Culture, Spirit
takayna is one of Australia’s richest Aboriginal cultural landscapes.
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Rainforests of takayna
takayna contains the most extensive and least fragmented areas of cool temperate rainforests in Australia.
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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 Aboriginal ownership.
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takayna logging threats
In takayna, ancient rainforests are flattened by logging and wildlife-rich ancient eucalyptus forests are clearfelled for woodchips.
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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.
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takayna Mining
Vast areas of takayna are covered by mining leases, which have the potential to destroy rainforests, grasslands and river systems.
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