There’s no economic or environmental case for native logging. Yet taxpayer money is still being used to support it.
- Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
In the past 11 years, we’ve lost roughly 300 million hectares of forest. Three ecologists explain why our current conservation strategies aren’t working.
Forest logging records, satellite data, on-ground surveys and drone photography show nearly 20% of logged areas in Victoria failed to regenerate over the past 40 years.
Native forest logging was meant to be over in Victoria. Why are the chainsaws still going?
All the evidence – colonial accounts and records, First Peoples’ testimony and scientific data – points to the existence of widespread tall, dense forests 250 years ago.
Victoria’s iconic mountain ash forests are reeling from decades of logging and fire. They’re not recovering on their own.
Fire frequency is increasing in all ecosystems studied. But in some places, fires were occurring so often it put entire ecosystems at risk of collapse.
Now begins a long and difficult process to recover vast areas of forest after more than 50 years of destructive logging.
Victoria’s native forests will be free from logging by the end of the year. That’s big news for our threatened species and fragmented forests
Victoria’s critically endangered Leadbeater’s possum is just hanging on, despite new plans and reserves aimed at protection. Plans to log some of its remaining habitat will not help
Researchers have uncovered what appears to be widespread logging of steep slopes in Victoria, which has the potential to damage critical water supplies.
Victoria has some of the most carbon rich native forests in the world. And we’re cutting them down for short-lived wood products.
Logging in the Thomson Catchment could reduce water supply by the equivalent of 600,000 people by 2050.
Every autumn Victoria copes with smoke haze from planned burns that reduce bushfire risk, but a large part of that pollution actually comes from industrial logging activity.
Victoria’s forest management policies need to be urgently reviewed in response to the discovery that logging can contribute to the severity of bushfires in wet forests, like the devastating fires on Black…
It’s perhaps fitting that mining magnate Andrew Forrest is in the vanguard of a move to position Australia as a major food supplier to China. Fitting, because if the plan is to work, Australian agriculture…
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