Two states have banned native forest logging, but it’s still happening in the others.
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Native forest logging was meant to be over in Victoria. Why are the chainsaws still going?
Our tallest trees are world champions when it comes to capturing and storing carbon, but they don’t like the heat. Climate change will trigger mass tree deaths in Tasmania. Here’s what can be done.
Australia has already lost so many wonderful mammal species. Do we want the southern greater glider to suffer the same fate?
Integrating local and Indigenous knowledge into conservation can help to support diverse diets without compromising biodiversity goals.
President Biden has called for protecting large, old trees from logging, but many of them could be cut while the regulatory process grinds forward.
Pine grows faster and sequesters more carbon. But native forest is better for biodiversity in the long run. Transitioning between the two offers a win-win solution.
How many years you reuse a fake holiday tree matters. So does what happens to a live tree when you’ve packed up the ornaments.
Australia’s latest climate change statement shows we have little hope of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. There’s good news on the 2030 target, but then what?
We argue for an orderly transition from ‘timber mining’ to managed forestry in the tropics. Here’s a five-step plan to improve forest fates, with benefits for the climate, biodiversity and people.
Satellite data shows wildfires are destroying large areas of timber-producing forests around the world. These fires are becoming more destructive with each passing year.
Tracking both the amount of carbon and the time that it remains stored is key to unlocking the potential of nature-based carbon storage as a climate mitigation strategy.
Forest thinning and controlled burns take away fuel for fires, but the US can only treat so many acres. Which ones to choose?
Tasmania’s forestry wars aren’t over, if the uproar over the felling of a large mountain ash is anything to go by.
Plantations of exotic trees from the mid-19th century onwards devastated Indian ecosystems.
The important role living roots play for sustaining life belowground should prompt us to rethink forest management.
Is it possible to measure sustainable development? Can we go beyond merely embracing virtuous principles and put the concept into use?
A longer growing season for trees, due to global warming, does not necessarily lead to an increase in wood production.
The remoteness and small size of old-growth boreal trees should not make us forget their high ecological importance and the many threats they face.
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
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Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Agente de transfert de connaissances pour le Centre de recherche sur la boréalie (CREB), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting fellow, Australian National University
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Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
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Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
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Professor, Département des Sciences Fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
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Director, Tas Law Reform Institue / Associate Professor, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Forestry Operations, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Executive Director, Long Term Ecological Research Network; Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University