Bunnings garden centres are trading in Tasmanian tree ferns taken as part of the logging of Tasmania's Gondwanic remnant native forests. 

Tasmanian tree ferns (Dicksonia antarctica) are Gondwanic remnants from a time when dinosaurs walked the earth. Growing at just 3.5-5cm a year these giants of the rainforest are long lived and critical to the biodiversity of Tasmania's rainforests. These iconic tree ferns are cut out of the forests as part of logging operations, shipped across Australia and the globe to be sold to unwitting gardeners and landscaping businesses as garden decorations, steps, border logs and garden mulch. 

Blue Derby Wild undertook over six months of chain of custody research tracing giant tree fern glades logged to supply Bunnings and other garden centres across Australia and the globe. Bunnings were contacted seeking a meeting to discuss their role in this destructive trade, and how they could exit from it. Bunnings were not interested in a meeting.

Blue Derby Wild then launched Tastreefern.com to showcase Bunnings role in the ongoing destruction of Gondwanic native forests, and Tas tree ferns. Again asking Bunnings for a meeting and to come tour the forests they are taking their tree ferns from.

On International Day for Forests a community Connectivity Corridor Convoy toured the forests, clear fells and tree fern glades of north east Tasmania that are being logged for garden centres like Bunnings. The community came to the forests to better understand the impact of Bunnings buying into native forest logging in Tasmania, and the Tassie tree fern trade. A tour Bunnings has yet to undertake.

Join us in inviting Bunning to come tour the forests and follow in the footsteps of community members who've seen the impact for themselves.

Blue Derby Wild and the undersigned extend an invitation to To Bunnings to come and tour the native forests of north east Tasmania in which Tas tree fern logging surveys have taken place, led by a Conservation and Wildlife Biologist. Providing the opportunity to see first hand the impacts of logging native forests, and better understand the role of Tasmanian tree fern glades in complex forest ecosystems.

Bunnings, lowest prices should not mean lowest standards. Stop trading in Tasmanian tree fern destruction!