Pandan,i Cradle Mountain Tasmania

Pandan,i Cradle Mountain Tasmania

Gondwanaland plant, ancient and unique to the Alpine Tasmanian Mountains. There are four species. This one is being logged, to be replaced by the cloned Eucalyptus ‘niton’, grown for the Japanese news- paper industry.
Please Note:...notes from document which have amazing photography or the forest being destroyed in Tasmania.

http://tasmaniantimes.com/images/uploads/SWST_report_to_the_IUCN_-_low_res.pdf

“The TWWHA rainforests are the best example of their type in Australia for the protection of biodiversity” (Balmer et. el. 2004:27). However, this biodiversity is under threat due to the the destruction of forests surrounding the TWWHA (HVEC &TWS 2007). The habitat provided by old-growth forests is not as readily present in the juvenile forests which will replace them. Rare, endangered and endemic species under threat from logging and burning operations include the Tasmanian Wedge-Tailed Eagle, the White Goshawk and the Tasmanian Devil (HVEC & TWS 2007), threatened marsupial Dasyurus maculatus (spotted-tail quoll) and all five of Tasmania’s
endemic mammals (Driessen & Mallick 2003). Invertebrates include the threatened southern hairy snail (Austrochloritis victoriae), the threatened giant velvet worm (Tasmanipatus barretti) and repre-sentatives the primitive moth family Hepialidae, many being endemic (Bryant & Jackson 1999).
There are several areas surveyed for the SWST 2008 report which contain Richea Pandaniifolia, including TN42E, TN50A, TN46A, SX14C, FO60A. The crown of this Tasmanian endemic provides food for the larvae of the Proditirix niesleni
(the giant Tasmanian pandani moth), the largest moth in the Yponombutoidea family the only record of this genus found in Australia (Mallick & Driessen).

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