Forestry, Logging and Timber Industry

A two-and-a-half-year trial of an electric truck in SA's forestry industry has concluded with the truck now parked, finding it was able to do the job but wasn't cost effective, even with high fuel prices.

Scientists rejoice as adult birds enter an artificial hollow to feed and incubate the egg, before hatching and eventually flying away. 

The NSW forestry industry is calling for secure access to timber as the proposed Great Koala National Park locks up resources and recent closures of Victorian and Western Australian sectors raise fears for the future of native logging.

The 22,000-hectare Rushy Lagoon property has long been used for dairy and beef production, but its potential sale to the UK's largest forestry asset manager has raised concerns about agricultural land being used for pine plantations.

The fire threat in Victoria's Upper Murray has eased, but the region's famously green, undulating hills still bear the black scars of a devastating bushfire.

Seven South West councils face $325,000 funding shortfall after forestry rate payments redirected to state Treasury. Shires warn residents could face higher rates or cuts to essential services as they push the state government for a solution.

Consumer advocates and the wood products industry say it is time the origin of timber was made clear, as imports grow year-on-year.  

Job losses mean Swifts Creek in Victoria's High Country is facing an identity crisis, but it is not the only small town undergoing a transformation. 

Imported timber is coming into Australia at nearly half the price of domestically manufactured products and is increasingly being used in local homes. 

Questions are being raised about sustainable timber certification in Australia. 

New cameras using AI have been installed in southern New South Wales forests and are spotting fires before they have a chance to spread.

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.

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.

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.

A Gippsland sawmill owned by Australia's largest softwood producer is set to shut immediately, with more than 70 jobs lost.

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.

A Great Koala National Park is being established on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. The timber industry is reeling as trees within the proposed boundary are now off limits.

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.

Western Australia's environmental regulator has issued a property owner with a vegetation conservation notice for the alleged clearing of a significant number of native trees.

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.