Issues related to 2016 TWWHA Management Plan
The final statutory Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Management Plan was released in December 2016. While somewhat improved from the 2014 draft, including its rhetoric on wilderness, it still contains many failings and deficiencies. Hence, we envisage there will be many issues going forward.
Critical issues with the new management plan include the lack of a statutory assessment process for development proposals, provisions for inappropriate development, and the lack of a clear mechanism to protect wilderness.
Lake Malbena
- International Journal of Wilderness paper re Lake Malbena 2021
- Lake Malbena tourist development proposal – background & summary
- Statement of Reasons why Malbena proposal is a ‘controlled action’ 2020
- Greg French: Heart of the Western Lakes, Fly Life 2020
- Lk Malbena development proposal – implications of appeal to Full Court 2020
- Assessment of impact of tourism development on wilderness at Lk Malbena 2018
- Lk Malbena development proposal 2018 – who is responsible for what?
- PWS correspondance re Lake Malbena tourist development proposal 2018
- Lk Malbena development proposal briefing notes & EPBC referral 2018
Tourism
- UNESCO decision re tourist development process 2021
- Final TWWHA Tourism Master Plan 2021
- Draft TWWHA Tourism Master Plan 2020
- Lower Gordon River Recreation Zone Plan Backgrounder (2020) & Draft Plan (2022)
- Letter to Minister re TWWHA Tourism Master Plan concerns & reply 2019
- Concerns re Tourism Master Plan for TWWHA 2018
- Cradle Mountain Visitor Experience Master Plan 2016
- Commercial tourism in Tasmania’s wilderness threatens the attraction it exploits
Management plan & World Heritage matters
- eNGO letter to World Heritage Committee re TWWHA State of Conservation report 2019
- State of Conservation of the TWWHA – report to UNESCO 2019
- Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Management Plan 2016
- Letter to Minister Frydenberg re non-compliance of TWWHA Management Plan 2016 with World Heritage management principles
Other issues
Ketchum Bay, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Photo: Grant Dixon
“… the Southwest Tasmanian wilderness is exceptional in size, quality and diversity in the Australian context and in the temperate regions of the world. As such it is of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science and conservation. The specific features of world heritage value which it contains only serve to enhance its value as an item of world heritage.”