This will affect numerous endangered species which refuge on the Strait’s islands, as well as the fishing industries of Tasmania and southern Australia.

Further, the mill will need trees to produce pulp. That’s right – in addition to forest plantations, old growth forests in Tasmania will be cut down to produce pulp.

There are two ways you can help prevent the destruction of habitat which may well be protecting the last thylacines – in addition to the endangered Tasmanian devil, spotted-tailed quolls, Eastern quolls and the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle (of which there are only 95 breeding pairs left):

1) Send a message to Minister Turnbill via Australia’s Wilderness Society

2) Comment directly to Minister Turnbill’s office during the final public comment period which expires 31 August (AEST – ie 30 August in the Americas)

There may well be no thylacine tours if Tasmania’s forests are not further protected. I won’t even comment on how the mill seems to have circumvented the environmental impact assessment…