Where mining meets rainforest: the battle for Tasmania's Tarkine | Tasmania
Campaigners say plans for a new tailings dam threatens wilderness that should be declared a heritage area
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Campaigners say plans for a new tailings dam threatens wilderness that should be declared a heritage area
THE ONE FOREST Tasmania's north-west coast is blanketed by Australia's largest tract of temperate rainforest: takayna/Tarkine. At its edge, along the bank of the Pieman River, the former gold-mining settlement of Corinna is a cluster of cottages transformed into tourist accommodation. Walking trails radiate into the forest from Corinna, and the Arcadia II, the only Huon pine-built river cruiser still operating in the world, sails downstream to wild Pieman Heads. It's also worth grabbing one of Corinna's kayaks and paddling downstream to quixotic Lover's Falls and over the top of the sunken st...