Ta Ann must inform Forestry Tasmania that it will not source any wood from the identified 572,000ha of high conservation forests or it will continue to undermine confidence in Tasmania as a place to invest and in its own business, Senators Bob Brown and Christine Milne said in Hobart today following news that British firm International Plywood is suspending purchases of Ta Ann products.

There is still time to have your say on the Three Capes Track plan.

Tasmania's Parks and Wildlife Service has prepared a draft Development Proposal and Environmental Management Plan for the proposed Three Capes Track within the Tasman National Park on the Tasman Peninsula. This document is available for public comment until the close of business on Friday 23 December 2011.

What a year to be Green!

Right from the start, 2011 has been a year of victory for the planet and for a more compassionate, equal Australia. Together we have achieved great things!

Bob Brown discusses the Tasmanian forests agreement and support for protests to ensure it's enacted as promised, the Remuneration Tribunal review into MPs' salaries, the interim report of the media convergence review and speculation on Tasmanian ALP leadership ructions.

Environmentalists who have today set up a tree sit on the slopes of Mt Mueller, near Maydena, are understandably frustrated by inaction on the intergovernmental agreement that was supposed to protect Tasmania's forests, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.

Environmentalists who have today set up a tree sit on the slopes of Mt Mueller, near Maydena, are understandably frustrated by inaction on the intergovernmental agreement that was supposed to protect Tasmania's forests, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.

Bob Brown dropped into the Still Wild Still Threatened press conference today to help launch the ObserverTree, a tree-sit linked to the outside world via the web, in one of the coupes that was supposed to have been protected four months ago by the Tasmanian forests intergovernmental agreement.

Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown spoke to reporters in Hobart on Saturday about the climate talks in Durban, the clear-felling of the intergovernmental agreement that was meant to protect Tasmania's grand forests, Sea Shepherd, and tourism in Tasmania.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Premier Lara Giddings need to make good their word that logging would cease after 7th August in 430,000 hectares of high-conservation value forest in Tasmania.

"The ongoing logging which the Prime Minister said would stop has not stopped. Further areas are now being logged. The logging makes a mockery of the Prime Minister and the Premier of Tasmania's signatures on the agreement on 7th August this year that it would stop," Senator Brown said in Hobart today.

Prime Minister Gillard has backed former Prime Minister Howard's policy on four vital issues which will figure prominently in the 2013 federal election, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.