{"id":32530,"date":"2025-05-01T15:39:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=32530"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:39:55","slug":"greens-will-deliver-world-heritage-protection-for-takayna-tarkine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/greens-will-deliver-world-heritage-protection-for-takayna-tarkine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens will deliver World Heritage protection for Takayna\/Tarkine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Greens have committed to nominating the Takayna\/Tarkine for World Heritage listing and declaring it a new National Park, delivering long-overdue protection for one of the most precious and irreplaceable landscapes on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is time to finally protect this globally significant place for future generations,\u201d Greens Senator for Tasmania Nick McKim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTakayna is a living link to deep time. It holds stories from the age of Gondwana and 60,000 years of continuous Aboriginal connection to country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInstead of being destroyed for short-term profit, Takayna deserves to be celebrated, protected and restored as a cultural and ecological treasure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Greens will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nominate Takayna\/Tarkine for World Heritage listing through a boundary extension to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Declare it a National Park under Tasmanian law to provide strong protections and formal identity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Invest $9 million to support the nomination process and establishment of the new park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTakayna\/Tarkine contains Australia\u2019s largest remaining temperate rainforest and over 60 threatened species.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s home to ancient rock carvings, vast shell middens, and rare ecosystems that are among the last of their kind anywhere in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWorld Heritage listing is about preserving nature as well as recognising country, culture and connection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor decades, scientists, Traditional Owners and local communities have called for this. The old parties have ignored them. The Greens will act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is about pride in our place. It\u2019s about building a future where Tasmania is known not for what we\u2019ve destroyed, but for what we\u2019ve protected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have committed to nominating the Takayna\/Tarkine for World Heritage listing and declaring it a new National Park, delivering long-overdue protection for one of the most precious and irreplaceable landscapes on earth. \u201cIt is time to finally protect this globally significant place for future generations,\u201d Greens Senator for Tasmania Nick McKim said. \u201cTakayna is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/greens-will-deliver-world-heritage-protection-for-takayna-tarkine-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens will deliver World Heritage protection for Takayna\/Tarkine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32531,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32530\/revisions\/32531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}