
Seeds of hope
Seeds of hope: on a mission to protect Tasmania's ancient pencil pines
Climate change could leave the 1,000-year-old conifers too stressed to seed, but a two-person cone-gathering operation aims to safeguard their survival
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Climate change could leave the 1,000-year-old conifers too stressed to seed, but a two-person cone-gathering operation aims to safeguard their survival
News : May 2022
Our collective pause of the last 2 years has taught us to look after the ones we love as well as ourselves. Our wanderlust dreaming is all about the opportunity of doing our future chosen adventures well.
News : March 2022
"Are we on time?” one walker asks as our group returns along the hard-packed beach. “There is no time here,” replies guide Sam Barnett, “so, yes, we’re on time.” It seems a good motto for a trip languidly named the Bruny Island Long Weekend
News : February 2022
Rising from the Ashes by Rachel Lees is a story that featured in The Times about some of the best lesser-known travel experiences in Tasmania, like walking and playing beach cricket with David Boon.
News : February 2022
In this Gourmet Traveller article, on route to Restaurant at the Edge of the World, Fiona Donnelly finds herself falling in step with nature while trekking Tasmania’s wild Three Capes Lodge Walk.
News : December 2021
Take a walk around beguiling Bruny. Forest bathing is a thing, and there’s nowhere better to indulge than Bruny Island. Australian Geographic, by Cathy Finch, December 20, 2021
Press : July 2021
How do you make botanists happy? Put them in a World Heritage-listed wilderness area and give special permission to go off track if a “target” species is spied.
News : June 2021
Gaiters on and linen bags at the ready, a group of amateur botanists wades through thigh-high moss on Tasmania’s Overland Track in search of seeds that might just save a species.
Press : January 2018
Wobbly-legged landlubber Paul Connolly discovers a different way to see the rocky peninsulas and crystal-clear coves of Tassie's east coast - and finds himself falling for a lady of the sea.
Press : June 2017
TWO FEET, ONE YACHT, and the infinte wild beauty of Tasmania's EAST COAST; a unique journey of SAILING AND BUSHWALKING offers the BEST OF BOTH worlds.
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