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takayna / Tarkine

Takayna / Tarkine is a hugely diverse wild landscape with an extraordinary history. Largely unprotected this region has huge potential for national park and world heritage status. With vast areas of rainforest, stunning waterways, unique geology, a fascinating human history and varied wildlife, takayna is a global treasure.

Rainforest and old eucalyptus species are a feature of the region

A giant myrtle beech tree - Nothofagus cunnighamii - stand proudly in the forest

Dicksonia antarctica - the tree fern - accompanies the myrtle beech and other rainforest species in the Tarkine forests

The rainforests of the Tarkine have incredible fungi

The blue tape in this photo indicates a forestry operation - this ancient forest was subsequently logged

Activists from all over the world come to protect these remarkable forests from logging

The activists create blockades to try and halt the logging - this forest near the Frankland River was saved

The rivers of the Tarkine are bounded by these lush and ancient forests

Astacopsis gouldi live in the rivers of takayna - they are the worlds largest invertebrate

Moorlands and rocky hills seperate the forests from the coast

The Takayna coast is incredibly dramatic

Huge swells travel half way around the earth before striking the coast

The geology of the rocks on the coast are easily as dramatic as the other elements

Coastal lagoons provide great snorkelling

The dunes of the coast reveal the presence of over 40000 years of human habitation

Middens reveal the diet of the Aboriginal people of the area. Seal, wallaby and shell fish dominate

Hut depressions often accompany the middens - the larger huts housed up to 30 people

Kunikung or pigface provides food and medicine

Marsupial lawns provide luxuriant grazing for wombats and wallabies

Buttongrass is an iconic plant found across the plains of takayna

Tarkine coastal rock and vegetation

Conservationist, Bob Brown bird watching on the Tarkine coast

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Rainforest and old eucalyptus species are a feature of the region

A giant myrtle beech tree - Nothofagus cunnighamii - stand proudly in the forest

Dicksonia antarctica - the tree fern - accompanies the myrtle beech and other rainforest species in the Tarkine forests

The rainforests of the Tarkine have incredible fungi

The blue tape in this photo indicates a forestry operation - this ancient forest was subsequently logged

Activists from all over the world come to protect these remarkable forests from logging

The activists create blockades to try and halt the logging - this forest near the Frankland River was saved

The rivers of the Tarkine are bounded by these lush and ancient forests

Astacopsis gouldi live in the rivers of takayna - they are the worlds largest invertebrate

Moorlands and rocky hills seperate the forests from the coast

The Takayna coast is incredibly dramatic

Huge swells travel half way around the earth before striking the coast

The geology of the rocks on the coast are easily as dramatic as the other elements

Coastal lagoons provide great snorkelling

The dunes of the coast reveal the presence of over 40000 years of human habitation

Middens reveal the diet of the Aboriginal people of the area. Seal, wallaby and shell fish dominate

Hut depressions often accompany the middens - the larger huts housed up to 30 people

Kunikung or pigface provides food and medicine

Marsupial lawns provide luxuriant grazing for wombats and wallabies

Buttongrass is an iconic plant found across the plains of takayna

Tarkine coastal rock and vegetation

Conservationist, Bob Brown bird watching on the Tarkine coast

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