You can see why Tasmania is such a special place for Australians and why many want to protect it:

Peter Dombrovskis,Lake Oberon, World Heritage Area, Western Tasmania

Wilderness means something in terms of value in Tasmania; an aesthetic value that cannot be reduced to economic value. Wilderness acts as a counterpoint to the industrial culture of late modernity. We place it into opposition to the harshness and bleakness of the industrial urban landscape;and we contrast the sounds of wilderness to the urban noise that surrounds us in the desolation row of the city.

I write that whilst listening to Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Ashtray Heart< on their 1980 album Doc at the Radar Station. The sounds of doped street kids with switchblades screaming at one another float up to me, as I read how Lester Bangs wanted his music to be along the lines of the:

"...mechanical, mindless heart of noise and the relentless pistol rhythms which seemed to represent the essence of both American life and American rock 'n' roll."

You cannot imagine a nomadic Lester hanging out in Tasmania getting high on the sublimity of wilderness, caring for the landscape or doing a phenomenology of nature.

Now Beefheart---well, Don Van Vilet---hung out in the Mojave Desert away from Lester's psychotic industrial society on speed where we need all those filter mechanisms to cope with industrial life.

Dave Van Vilet, Avah Creen, 1984

You can see why wilderness attracts many from afar and why they desire to visit Tasmania for their holidays. This is one of the last true wilderness regions on Earth and it encompasses a wider range of natural and cultural values than many other region on Earth. The Tasmanian Wilderness areas need World Heritage protection.