From Shark Bay to Albany,WA’s famed national parks are experiencing mass plant deaths after the stress of the state’s unusually long,hot and dry summer.
Wombat State Forest near Daylesford has sparked a new chapter in Victoria’s forest wars,pitting Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation against a renowned ecology professor and his publisher.
Professor David Lindenmeyer looked neater than you’d expect for a man who has spent years in Australia’s oldest forests,locked in political battles with the industries that depend on cutting them down.
Hazard-reduction burns are designed to clear undergrowth and reduce the risk of large-scale bushfires. But the science is far from settled.
Debate is raging about whether trees that have been blown over in windstorms should remain in Victorian forests or be carted away for timber or firewood.
The Victorian government’s logging agency will close on June 30 after years of financial losses and claims of mismanagement.
The man who stopped the Gunns pulp factory is turning his attention to this state’s hardwood forests.
Loggers will no longer be required to search for the endangered Greater Gliders and their den trees in known habitat areas in NSW.
A bid to preserve rainforest trees and protect endangered animals led to a long-running campaign of intimidation.
Premier Chris Minns said on Wednesday the forestry industry,including native hardwood logging,“has a future” in NSW,but revealed his government would investigate the use of what he called “a new marketplace” in carbon offsets and the expansion of private softwood plantations.
Environmental groups hope the court will find that years of logging approvals between Sydney and the Queensland border are invalid.