Alcoa’s funding will support a forest research centre for five years and will also boost its own team of environmental researchers from four to eleven.
Conservationists are furious after they warned the government about the presence of greater gliders and Leadbeater’s possums in trees identified for removal.
In coming weeks,the DBCA will start torching 200,000 hectares of the state to boost our defences in the face of increasing bushfires. But is it causing irreparable damage to our ecosystems?
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.