UNESCO has been urged to request the Australian Government undertake an urgent and comprehensive environmental assessment and report on the impact of salmon farming on the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA).
The Australia Institute, First Nations representatives, and local, national and international conservation organisations have written to the UN body explaining the extinction risk facing the Maugean skate in Macquarie Harbour is threatening a key value for which the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area was inscribed. A World Heritage site can be classified as ‘World Heritage In Danger' if the values for which it was inscribed on the World Heritage List are under severe threat.
