TWWHA values, boundary & monitoring

Values

• UNESCO documentation regarding the TWWHA (including evaluations, World Heritage listing and associated decisions, from 1982 onwards)
• Australian Government TWWHA website (with links to State Party state of conservation reports & other World Heritage documentation)
• Retrospective Statement of Outstanding Universal Value for Tasmanian Wilderness 2023
• Inadequacy of draft Statement of Outstanding Universal Value 2014
• Summary of the values of the TWWHA
• TWWHA Wilderness Mapping Project 2006
• Assessing Wilderness Values of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area
• Floristic Values of the TWWHA
• Geoconservation Values of the TWWHA
• Climate Change & Geodiversity in the TWWHA
• Fire in the Wilderness
• Submission to Senate Inquiry into bushfires in Tasmanian wilderness 2016

Monitoring

• A Monitoring & Evaluation system for the TWWHA has been developed by the Parks & Wildlife Service since 2005 but is not adequately resourced.
• State of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area report no 1, 2004
• Our Recreation Management campaign page also contains a range of links regarding the monitoring & management of recreational walking in the TWWHA.

Boundary

• Forgotten wilderness: the Spero-Wanderer region 2023
• Land tenure in the TWWHA 2023
• TWWHA turns forty – history of listing and expansion 2022
• History of reservation of the TWWHA
• Western-Tasmania- a place of Outstanding Universal Value Report commissioned by The Greens, 2009.
• The TNPA’s Submission to the 2008 World Heritage Mission called for a comprehensive review and holistic consideration of TWWHA boundaries and management.
• TNPA call for Cox Bight-Melaleuca corridor to be national park 2008 The Cox Bight-Melaleuca area is now part of the Southwest National Park & TWWHA.
• The Appropriate Boundary of the TWWHA This report describes the ideal boundary of a TWWHA that would both recognise and protect all relevant values. It was prepared by the then-Dept of Parks, Wildlife & Heritage in 1990 under a commitment in the Labour-Green Accord. Despite expansions of the TWWHA since, many of its recommendations remain relevant.