Sustainable timber certification under fire
By Madeleine Stuchbery
Questions are being raised about sustainable timber certification in Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-05/sustainable-timber-certification-concerns/105904122
#ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry #Conservation #Environment #Forests #EnvironmentalImpact #EnvironmentalPolicy #EnvironmentalManagement #MadeleineStuchbery
New high-tech cameras making a difference to NSW fire fighting
By Emily Doak and Rachel Holdsworth
New cameras using AI have been installed in southern New South Wales forests and are spotting fires before they have a chance to spread.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-23/early-detection-cameras-spotting-fires-in-nsw/106148476
#Fires #ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry #EmilyDoak #RachelHoldsworth
Push to recognise home of 70-metre-tall 'world champion' spotted gum
By Toby Hemmings
Thought to be 500 years old, a 70-metre-tall spotted gum is almost hidden in the middle of a South Coast state forest. Conservationists want the "world champion" tree and the forest it lives in recognised and celebrated.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-17/big-spotty-spotted-gum-north-brooman-state-forest/106135758
#Conservation #NationalParks #ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry #EnvironmentalPolicy #TravelandTourism #TobyHemmings
Thought to be 500 years old, a 70-metre-tall spotted gum is almost hidden in the middle of a South Coast state forest. Conservationists want the "world champion" tree and the forest it lives in recognised and celebrated.
Sawmiller 'worried' as Labor, Greens strike deal over environment laws
By Sandy Powell
The government has struck a deal with the Greens to overhaul Australia environmental laws, sparking concerns for the future of Tasmania's native logging industry.
#EnvironmentalPolicy #ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry #FederalParliament #Environment #SandyPowell
'Absolute madness': Environment groups decry glider survey results
By Angela Heathcote
New data points to the "systemic" under-reporting of greater glider dens within areas earmarked for logging in NSW, which scientists say could result in localised extinctions.
#Environment #ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #AngelaHeathcote
Timber workers lose jobs at Victorian sawmill weeks before Christmas
By Jack Colantuono and Madeleine Stuchbery
A Gippsland sawmill owned by Australia's largest softwood producer is set to shut immediately, with more than 70 jobs lost.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-19/yarram-sawmill-to-close-timber-shutdown-gippsland/105904140
#ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry #JackColantuono #MadeleineStuchbery
Fears Herons Creek may become 'ghost town' due to new koala park
By Claire Simmonds and Sophia McCaughan
A third of Herons Creek’s population on the NSW mid north coast faces possible redundancy as the timber mill struggles to survive the logging moratorium to create the Great Koala National Park.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-17/job-losses-in-timber-industry-to-create-koala-park/106004814
#ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry #ClaireSimmonds #SophiaMcCaughan
Forestry looks for new markets after new national park cuts supply
By Emma Rennie
The Great Koala National Park was announced to protect koalas and forests in northern NSW, but the forestry industry has been left wondering how it can fill a shortfall in supply.
#ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry #Forests #ForestRegeneration #NationalParks #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #EmmaRennie
Environmental regulator probes alleged felling of native vegetation
By Eliza Bidstrup
Western Australia's environmental regulator has issued a property owner with a vegetation conservation notice for the alleged clearing of a significant amount of native trees.
#LandClearing #ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry #NativeSpecies #StateandTerritoryGovernment #LocalGovernment #ElizaBidstrup
Ambitious plan to convert forestry waste into fuel for ships and planes
By Sam Bradbrook
With biofuels earmarked as a way to power the transport sector in the future, one industry says its waste can be converted into aviation and shipping fuel.
#AlternativeEnergy #ClimateChange #ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry #GlobalWarming #AirTransportIndustry #TransportIndustry #MarineTransportIndustry #RecyclingandWasteManagement #Manufacturing #BiotechnologyIndustry #EnergyPolicy #Sustainability #SamBradbrook
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