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getting this decision through the government. This has the potential to open up the availability of wallaby on restaurant menus. Award winning fine dining institution Stillwater in Launceston has been using wallaby for years, with the dish proving popular with diners. “We’ve been using wallaby meat at Stillwater for many,
had been forced to send most of their skins to landfill, but it’s hoped wuggs will change that. Soft, warm and comfortable, Lenah hopes they will become another Tasmanian icon, given wallaby is only processed in Tasmania and nowhere else in the entire world, making wuggs a truly uniquely Tasmanian product. Lenah has a ‘love at first touch’ guarantee to wuggs, so if you don’t fall in love with them at first touch you can send them back for a full refund. Lenah contracted the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology to test wuggs compared to normal wool uggs. RMIT found the open nature of wallaby fur means people are less likely to sweat in wuggs compared to uggs, while it also reports the unique structure of wallaby leather makes it the strongest leather per millimeter of thickness in the world, suggesting wuggs will last a lot longer than other boots. RMIT concluded: “The wallaby fur has a lower thickness and area density, as compared to merino, they are a much lighter weight material and less dense giving overall comfort to the body, without the bulk of merino product. These properties provide a low weight alternative, increasing comfort by reducing weight of the footwear.”
many years,” Stillwater Restaurant Executive Chef and Partner Craig Will says. “We do so happily because it’s a great product and we know it is produced under a tightly regulated system which ensures it’s both sustainable and humane. We also endorse the idea that producing meat from native animals is a great idea environmentally.” To maximise the value of the entire animal, Lenah has recently started turning wallaby skins into wugg boots – ugg boots made from wallaby fur. Prior to this Lenah
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