The Giants: Talking the Tarkine Q&A

Hear from the team behind The Giants and meet those working on the ground in conservation in this inspiring Q&A with filmmakers Laurence Billiet and Rachael Antony, Bob Brown Foundation Campaign Manager Jenny Weber and Intrepid Travel’s Rachelle Uhlmann.

Together they discuss the unique values of Australia’s precious Gondwana-era native forests, such as the Tarkine/Takayna in northwest Tasmania, their contribution to biodiversity, water security and climate justice, and the critical next steps to ensure their conservation into the future.

This event was presented in April 2023, as part of Documentary Australia’s Environmental Accelerator program with support from Intrepid Travel.

About the film – The Giants explores the intertwined fates of trees and humans in a poetic portrait of environmentalist Bob Brown and the forest. Watch The Giants in the Environmental Accelerator Film Festival now.

From a seedling to forest elder, The Giants is a masterclass that draws on Bob Brown’s 50 years of inspiring activism, from the Franklin campaign for Tasmania’s last wild river, to today’s battle for Takayna / the Tarkine rainforest.

Take action to protect Takayna

In The Giants we see activists like Bob Brown fighting to protect the ancient forests of Takayna / the Tarkine – Australia’s largest temperate rainforest, and a critical habitat for threatened species like Masked Owls, Azure Kingfishers, Wedge-tailed Eagles, Spotted-tail Quolls and Tasmanian Devils. In a climate and extinction crisis, where native forests and wildlife habitats are vanishing, we must urgently protect Takayna from new mines and deforestation.

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