Tasmania not shown to tourists

The island of Tasmania, which has preserved tropical forests and various representatives of the unique Australian fauna, is very popular among tourists. It is visited not only by Australians living on the mainland, but also by numerous foreign travelers for whom interesting tourist routes have been developed. But natural forest plantations are actively cut down by industrial companies, and if this process cannot be stopped, cruise liners will bypass the island, as there will be nothing attractive for tourists there.

Almost half of the island of Tasmania is covered with rainforests, which are inhabited not only by representatives of the Australian fauna, but also species endemic to Tasmania. The island is home to kangaroos, Tasmanian devils, wombats, koalas, Posums and many species of birds. About 20% of the island belongs to national parks and is protected by UNESCO. But if you go beyond the boundaries of protected areas, you can see that on the island, not everything is as smooth as it might seem to tourists.

The logging industry, along with the mining and tourism sectors, forms the basis of the economic well-being of Tasmania. Despite all the protests of ecologists and the local population, the island continues to cut down natural rainforests. Together with the disappeared forest, the animals living in it die.

On cleared sites, the natural ecosystem of the Tasmanian forest, which has been created for thousands of years in the unique natural conditions of isolation of the island, will never be restored. Forest fires are frequent on the island, which only increase the scale of the disaster.

This is well understood by scientists and local environmentalists who regularly organize pickets and protests. And if activists fail to attract the attention of the government to the problem of deforestation of the Tasmanian forests, there will soon be nothing to show tourists.