Tasmania's timber dependent families welcome the WHC's report prepared following its Reactive Monitoring Mission Tasmanian visit 15 to 20 March, 2008.

The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO has overwhelmingly endorsed the appropriateness of Tasmanian Forestry practices in its review of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA).

Environment Minister, Peter Garrett today welcomed the World Heritage Committee’s consideration at its meeting in Quebec, Canada, of an expert report on Australia’s management of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.

Premier David Bartlett today said he had received a personal briefing from Professor Ross Garnaut about his landmark draft climate change report.

Forestry Tasmania has welcomed a report by from UNESCO endorsing Forestry Tasmania's management of production forests on the boundaries of Tasmania's World Heritage Area. This follows the World Heritage Committee's Mission to Tasmania in March of this year.

A high-level international report on the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area has recognised the State's sound stewardship of one of the world's unique wilderness areas.