This rainforest was once a grassland savanna maintained by Aboriginal people – until colonisation
- Written by Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Associate Professor in Biogeography, University of Melbourne
John Glover's paintings show open savannahs and grasslands in Tasmania. (1838)Art Gallery of NSW
If you go to the Surrey Hills of northwest Tasmania, you’ll see a temperate rainforest dominated by sprawling trees with genetic links going back millions of years.
It’s a forest type many consider to be ancient “wilderness”. But...