Camp Tarkine

Join us over Easter for Camp Tarkine

Friday 18th – Monday 21st April 2014. Tarkine, Tasmania.

  • Visit the ancient Tarkine Rainforest and wild Tarkine Coast

  • Learn about the 30,000 years of Aboriginal Heritage of the Tarkine

  • Join with activists from around Australia as we plan nationwide action to Save the Tarkine

  • and enjoy the fun, food, fellowship and music of Camp Tarkine

If you have ever asked “What can I do to Save the Tarkine” – Camp Tarkine is for you. Camp Tarkine will be four days of visits to the Tarkine’s wonders, training for campaign skills, and workshops to plan campaign action in YOUR city when you return. Camp Tarkine will connect you with fellow activists as we collectively set out to make the saving the Tarkine a national priority.

And we intend to have a lot of fun. Musicians, food and a few drinks.

So whether you are new to campaigning or a veteran with skills to share, eighteen or eighty, we want YOU to join with us to help Save the Tarkine.

So grab a tent and a sleeping bag and join us in the spectacular Tarkine for an awesome four day experience as we plan to take the Tarkine to the nation.

Keep checking this page for news and updates. We are still organising details and will have online bookings available soon.

You can pre-register your interest below (this will help us know how many we are catering for).

Jetstar and Virgin offer cheap flights into Launceston (2 1/2 hours away) and Hobart (5 hours), and Rex offers flights into Burnie from Melbourne (1 hour) (a little more expensive). Hire cars are available at all airports, or we can attempt to arrange car pooling with other campers from either. Prices can be higher at Easter, but if you can travel a day or two either side you can get some cheaper flights (and have more time to visit the Tarkine).

Spirit of Tasmania operates the overnight ferry from Melbourne to Devonport if you intend bringing your own car from interstate.

Please contact Scott on 0428300324 or at [email protected] if you have any queries.

A refuge for the Devil

The Tarkine is the home to the last disease free population of the Tasmanian Devil. The Tasmanaian Devil is being pushed to extinction by the fatal Devil Facial Tumour Disease. This disease has been estimated to have killed 80% of the Tasmanian Devil population in the past decade. As such the habitat of the Tarkine is critical to survival of this iconic species in the wild. Threats such as mining, logging and roading place the future of the Devil at risk.

Ten new mines for the Tarkine?

There are now ten new mines proposed for the Tarkine over the next five years, and the campaign to prevent this onslaught of destruction is heating up. Nine of these mines are Pilbara style open cut mines. The first two companies to submit for permits are Venture Minerals for their three proposed tin and iron ore mines at Mt Lindsay, and Shree Minerals for their proposed Nelson Bay River iron ore mine.