This issue of TNPA News contains a photo feature on Tasmania’s ‘forgotten wilderness’, the 139,000 hectare Spero – Wanderer region left out of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area south of Macquarie Harbour. Other articles discuss recent global and domestic initiatives to expand protected areas and the impact of Covid-19 on visitation to Tasmania’s parks and reserves.

Spero-Wanderer region coast. Photo: Grant Dixon

The Tasmanian National Parks Association offers an independent voice for Tasmania’s national parks and reserves, to ensure they are managed for the conservation of the values for which they were proclaimed.