Trail-blazer wants to keep running wild
ANEW documentary is helping push the case that one of Australia’s most culturally and environmentally significant wild places — North-West Tasmania’s Tarkine rainforest — should be World Heritage-listed.
Produced by sustainable outdoor clothing brand Patagonia in partnership with the Bob Brown Foundation, takayna is part of a larger campaign designed to raise awareness and gain global support for protecting the takayna/ Tarkine region and nominating it as a World Heritage Area.
Weaving together the narratives of activists and the Aboriginal community, takayna is told through the eyes of local doctor and avid trail runner Nicole Anderson.
“Running is a marvellous tool in conservation work, it gives us the ability to cover long distances over forestry and mining roads behind locked gates,” Anderson says.
“We must come in and actually document this destruction — the devastation of takayna/ Tarkine needs to be exposed.”
takayna will screen in dozens of locations across Australia and North America this winter, with more still to be announced.
Free screenings will take place at the State Cinema in North Hobart from 7.30pm tomorrow and 3.30pm on Saturday, but both sessions are already booked out.
To sign the petition calling for the Tarkine to be nominated as a World Heritage Area, go to www.change.org/takayna