The Styx Valley is located adjacent to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Site on the island of Tasmania. The Tasmanian Wilderness is a term that is sometimes used for the World Heritage Area in South West, Western and Central Tasmania A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a Forest, Mountain, Lake, Desert, Monument, Building, complex Tasmania is an Australian island and state of the same name It is located south of the eastern side of the Continent, being separated from it by Bass The Styx River is the main drainage system of the valley. The Styx River is a river in the centre of southern Tasmania. It lies about 100 km northwest of Hobart, with the nearest town being Maydena. Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Maydena is a small town in Tasmania, Australia. It is located on the Gordon River Road.
Temperate wet eucalypt forests in the region are home to the world's tallest flowering plants, Eucalyptus regnans. Eucalypts are woody plants belonging to three closely related genera Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Angophora. Eucalyptus regnans, known variously by the common names Mountain Ash, Victorian Ash, Swamp Gum, Tasmanian Oak or Stringy Rainforest gullies are carpeted in mosses and lichens and shaded by the tree ferns Dicksonia antarctica, known locally as Man-ferns, and other rainforest tree species including sassafras, Myrtle Beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii) and Celery-top pine (Phyllocladus aspleniifolius). Mosses are small soft Plants that are typically 1–10 cm (0 Lichens (ˈlaɪkən or /lɪtʃən/ are symbiotic associations of a Fungus (the mycobiont with a photosynthetic partner (the photobiont also known as Dicksonia antarctica, known as the Soft Tree Fern Man Fern or Tasmanian Tree Fern is an evergreen Tree fern native to parts of Australia, namely Sassafras is a genus of three Sassafras trees grow from 15–35 m (50–120 feet tall and 70–150 cm (2 The Myrtle Beech ( Nothofagus cunninghamii) is an Evergreen tree native to Victoria and Tasmania, Australia. Phyllocladus aspleniifolius ( Celery-top pine) is an endemic gymnosperm of Tasmania, Australia.
In 2002, Australia's most massive tree, nicknamed "El Grande" was discovered. Unfortunately it was killed in an autumn burn in 2003.
Conservation
The valley has been the site of an ongoing conflict between environmentalists, who have proposed the protection of the site as a National Park, and supporters of the logging industry. Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and Social movement centered on a concern for the conservation and improvement of the environment. Logging is the process in which Trees are cut down for Forest management and Timber. One of their arguments, as well as the obvious environmental benefits, was that a tourism-based economy would be more beneficial for the local economy than logging the area.
Community blockades including tree sits have been supported by Greenpeace and the Tasmanian Wilderness Society. Tree sitting is a form of environmentalist Civil disobedience in which a Protester sits in a Tree, usually on a small platform built for the purpose Greenpeace, originally known as the Greenpeace Foundation, was founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1972 The Wilderness Society (TWS is an Australian Not-for-profit non-governmental environmental advocacy whose mission is protecting promoting and restoring Wilderness Gandalf's Staff, an 85 metre tall eucalypt, holds the world record for supporting the highest tree sit platform. The campaign was successful in gaining protection for the proposed clearfell coupe containing some of the tallest trees, and protection has recently been proposed by the Latham opposition in 2004 for an area of the northern Styx valley containing high conservation value old growth forest.
References
- Brown B & Bayley V (2003). The Valley of the Giants. The Wilderness Society. ISBN 1-875768-10-6.
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