When fire maps showed a bushfire in Tasmania's west burning within metres of a high-conservation-value stand of ancient trees, there were fears for the worst.

Tasmanian devils Arborio and Bomba are on a mission to make people fall in love with them and their species.

The oldest-known Huon pine in the world, thought to be 3,000 years old, has survived a bushfire on Tasmania's west coast. New aerial images show how the fire came within metres of the stand of ...