A Festival Called Panama is taking a break in 2026 for the environment
A Tasmanian festival is making a big call by slamming the breaks on their 2026 event for an environmental reason.
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A Festival Called Panama is taking a break in 2026 while organisers continue to fight native forest logging in the festival backyard.
“Panama festival will be taking a break,” organisers posted online. “It’s the right time for us and it will be nice for the land and the valley to have some time to rest.”
Organisers said they would be “working hard” to protect the Panama Forest, which makes up part of the 39,000 hectares of native forest previously earmarked for protection the Liberal government has reclassified for future logging.
They encouraged fans to contact stakeholders about the issue including Premier Jeremy Rockliff, Labor Leader Dean Winter, Tasmanian Minister for business Eric Abetz and Federal agriculture, fisheries and forestry Minister Julie Collins.
Panama is a three day music and art festival held among the Panama Forest at Golconda in March.
Originally published as A Festival Called Panama is taking a break in 2026 for the environment
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