What if you could run to save one of the last wild places on Earth?
The Takayna Trail Run is an annual event since 2019 and is strictly limited to the first 200 runners.
The trail is set in the heart of the Takayna wilderness, known for its ancient Gondwanan rainforests. Runners experience diverse landscapes, including rainforests, buttongrass plains and challenging terrain with steep hills and uneven surfaces. Participants can choose from three distances; 22km, 37km or 62km courses.
The main goal of the Takayna Trail community is to use our love for running to help protect Takayna, in beautiful North West Tasmania. We run to have Takayna protected as a World Heritage listed National Park, returned to Aboriginal ownership.
The Takayna region of north-western Tasmania is home to one of the last undisturbed tracks of Gondwanan rainforest in the world and one of the highest concentrations of Aboriginal cultural heritage sites in the southern hemisphere. Yet this place, which remains largely as it was when dinosaurs roamed the planet, is currently at the mercy of destructive extraction industries, including logging and mining.
‘Takayna / Tarkine remains today a rare gem of natural intactness in a world where the destruction of wild nature is rampant and accelerating. It should also be one of the easiest in the world to protect. Comprising just seven percent of Tasmania, the Tarkine contains the nation’s largest temperate rainforest, a galaxy of its rare and endangered wildlife and some of the richest Aboriginal heritage in the hemisphere. The latter has been inscribed on the list of National Heritage. The cleanest air in the world, as measured by the nearby UN monitoring station, blows across the Tarkine’s shores.’
Bob Brown
The Bob Brown Foundation is all about action with a vision to protect Australia’s wild and scenic natural places of ecological and global significance. The first place on their radar was the stunning Tarkine in a remote part of North West Tasmania.
They need your help for a logging halt in Tasmania’s wilderness tracts of old growth forests and the ancient rainforests of Takayna/Tarkine.
“After we revealed the clear-felling of old growth rainforest in Takayna/Tarkine last January 2018, the Tasmanian Government continues to ignore the climate emergency and extinction crisis that outdates these appalling practices in our environment,” Bob Brown Foundation Campaign Manager Jenny Weber said.
What if running could save a rainforest
Weaving together the conflicting narratives of activists, locals and Aboriginal communities, and told through the experiences of a trail running doctor and a relentless environmentalist, this documentary about running doctor, conservation photographer and environmentalist Nicole Anderson, presented by Patagonia Films, unpacks the complexities of modern conservation and challenges us to consider the importance of our last truly wild places.
Join one of the three running events – Takayna ultra 62km, Takayna 37km or Takayna 22km to help save Takayna from logging, mining and off-road vehicle damage.
This event raises money to support the Bob Brown Foundation’s campaign to have Takayna protected as a World Heritage listed National Park, returned to Aboriginal ownership.
Image by PixbayBlade
