A court challenge has been launched against a plan by Liberal parliamentarian John Tucker to clear more than 1800 hectares of native forest on land he owns in the North-East.
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The Tasmanian Conservation Trust has lodged proceedings against the validity of the Forest Practices Plan to allow the harvest near Ansons Bay.
TCT chief executive Peter McGlone said the plan would see 491 hectares of endangered Eucalyptus ovata forest coverted into grazing land for cattle.
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The trust, supported by the Environment Defenders Office, will attempt to argue the Forest Practices Plan was issued in error in 2015.
It will argue the forest provides habitat for the threatened spotted-tailed quoll, New Holland mouse and the Tasmanian devil as well as eight threatened plant species.
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Mr McGlone said the proposal would represent the largest clearing on private land in a decade if it was allowed to proceed.
"Clearing of this kind has been steadily declining in Tasmania, and TCT is determined to prevent a reversal of that trend," he said.
"The Eucalyptus ovata forest on the property is perhaps the largest concentration of this endangered community on non-protected land in Tasmania. E. ovata is also habitat for the endangered swift parrot.
Forest Practices Authority chief forest practices officer, Peter Volker, said the matter related to Forest Practices Plan prior to his employment with the FPA in 2016.
He said he would not make any further comment so as not to prejudice court proceedings.
Mr Tucker was contacted for comment.
A government spokesperson said the historical matter had no impact on Mr Tucker's role in Parliament.
The court case is listed for hearing on May 2 and 3.