Huge Tasmanian wilderness area now open to development

By Andrew Darby
Updated January 16 2015 - 9:13am, first published January 15 2015 - 5:07pm
In deep: Tasmanian campaign manager of the Wilderness Society, Vica Bayley, in Styx Valley. Photo: Peter Mathew
In deep: Tasmanian campaign manager of the Wilderness Society, Vica Bayley, in Styx Valley. Photo: Peter Mathew

A new front is opening in Tasmania's environment wars, as the state government moves to bring tourist development into the previously off-limits World Heritage wilderness.