Tuesday 9 February 2010
6pm for 6.30pm start
Philip Smith Centre, 2 Edward St, Glebe, Tasmania 7000
Please contact us if you want more information.
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 Ashboune Grove, West Moonah, TAS 7009)
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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,
Very proud to be invited to be the patron of the FPS. I see this coming decade as clearly a turning point for not just Tasmania but the whole worldwide effort to secure any kind of liveable future at all for our children and all the generations to come. That this is being done by small, passionate and caring groups is its greatest strength and safeguard. Thank you to all the wonderful people who understand that this is now about survival, and give it all that they can.
Steve Biddulph
Source: www.stevebiddulph.com
Steve Biddulph is a popular author who books on parenthood, family life and social change have sold more than three million copies worldwide and whose talks have attracted audiences of over one hundred thousand people in 22 countries
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Do you value ancient forests?
Join the Florentine Protection Society
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.
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