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Articles on Logging
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Orders to not investigate potential government wrongdoing sets an alarming precedent for the future of B.C. forestry.
Two states have banned native forest logging, but it’s still happening in the others.
Native forest logging was meant to be over in Victoria. Why are the chainsaws still going?
A recently published report sheds light on how 350 big companies and 150 financial institutions are falling behind with goals to halt and reverse deforestation.
Australia has already lost so many wonderful mammal species. Do we want the southern greater glider to suffer the same fate?
President Biden has called for protecting large, old trees from logging, but many of them could be cut while the regulatory process grinds forward.
For the proposed Great Koala National Park to actually help koalas, logging should stop and plantations should be added to the park.
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.
Australia has a once-in-a-decade opportunity to fix environmental law. A new Wentworth Group report says the cumulative impacts from multiple projects must be considered.
Victoria’s iconic mountain ash forests are reeling from decades of logging and fire. They’re not recovering on their own.
One night, someone cut down a tree. It wasn’t just any tree. The loss of the Sycamore Gap tree sent a nation into grief. But why?
Founded in 1959, the membership group Trout Unlimited has changed the culture of fly-fishing and mobilized members to support conservation. Could its approach work for other social problems?
The UN ‘30 by 30’ biodiversity strategy aims to set aside 30% of land as protected areas. New research shows these areas do support biodiversity, but big parks also increase it outside their borders.
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.
Tasmania’s forestry wars aren’t over, if the uproar over the felling of a large mountain ash is anything to go by.
The Kenyan state has historically viewed forests in terms of production and economic development – not biodiversity and conservation.
A realistic look at forest management on the Nitassinan of Pessamit, based on data from the Québec government’s forest inventories.
Two states will soon end logging of native forests, but what about the other states? The federal government has powers to intervene but also faces obstacles to nationwide protection of these forests.
Now begins a long and difficult process to recover vast areas of forest after more than 50 years of destructive logging.
Top contributors
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Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Visiting fellow, Australian National University
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Threatened Species Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science Department, Zoos Victoria, and Visiting Scholar, School of Life & Environmental Science, Deakin University
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
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Senior Research Fellow in Ecology, Griffith University
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Cooperative Extension Forester and Natural Resources Advisor, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Cooperative Extension Forester and Natural Resources Advisor, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Research Associate, University of New South Wales, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin University
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, University of Tasmania