Florentine Protection Society Inc.

“Flora and Fauna Guide to the Upper Florentine Valley.” This field guide, by Miranda Gibson and Lily Leahy, presents over 50 full-colour pages detailing the amazing plant and animal life you will find in the Upper Florentine, including plants, trees, ferns, fungi, birds, mammals and insects.

We are selling this wonderful book for $15. Please contact us if you would like one.

Below is a copy of the advertisement that appeared on Saturday, 27th February, in the Hobart Mercury. It is half a page in colour on page 15, a right-hand page.

We are appealing to all sympathetic fellow travelers to assist in paying for it.  It is envisaged that this is only the first and more ads will follow, plus other actions for the year ahead. But all this requires considerable financial support so we can achieve our main objective, saving the Upper Florentine Valley.

Any amount donated will be most welcome. Please continue on to our donation page.

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Our lovely new sticker is now available. You can pick it up at a few outlets in town. Contact us if you want any or have a good space to distribute them for us.

(Authorised by Elizabeth Perey, 84 Ashbourne Grove, West Moonah, TAS 7009)

It is with the greatest pleasure that we can announce that the famous author and psychologist  Steve Biddulph is our new Patron. We are very pleased to have him; here is what he had to say:

Steve Biddulph,

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The Upper Florentine Valley is an iconic old growth forest and is a fine example of Tasmania’s irreplaceable and high conservation value ancient forests.

This pristine upper catchment is bordered by high mountains of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area and Mount Field National Park.

The forest has been evolving to its present form since the last ice age, 10,000 years ago.

It comprises a mix of Tasmania’a major rainforest trees — myrtle, celery-top pine, sassafras and leatherwood, as well as giant eucalypts that are up to 400 years old.

It is home to a diverse range of animals, including Tasmanian Devils, Quolls, Pygmy Possums, Flame Robins, Wedge-tailed Eagles and a huge range of insects and invertebrate fauna.

The Florentine Valley is riddled with caves, underground streams and sinkholes. It is a repository of Aboriginal heritage dating back to the Ice Ages.

This extraordinary area contains some of Australia’s tallest and most massive trees amid stands of old growth forest that the Australian Government promised to protect in 2004.

It was the last known habitat of the thylacine.