Following the many challenges Australia has faced recently, including the bushfires and COVID-19, the FSC team was finally \ able to visit its valued certificate holders, members and stakeholders across the country. Source: Timberbiz
Early in the year FSC visited Tumut, and in both March and April travelled to Tasmania.
In Tasmania, FSC caught up with Timberlands Pacific, SFM, Forico and Norske Skog who all showed how they work with the FSC standards in their unique ways.
Forico, for example, showed how they manage rare grasslands and the approximately 70,000 hectares of non-productive native forest they have under certification.
With Timberlands, FSC was able to take part in their High Conservation Value (HCV) training day with their staff and learned more about the work they do to restore watercourses in their certified area.
All certificate holders showed how their forests and production facilities provide large quantities of timber and timber-based products from responsibly managed forests to the Australian and international markets.
Sustainable Timber Tasmania showed how they are trialling new harvesting techniques to better retain habitat trees.
Finally, there were meetings with a range of Tasmanian politicians and the Greens to better understand the political vision for forestry in Tasmania and to emphasise how FSC certification can play a positive role in this vision.
For the remainder of the year, the team plans to visit Queensland, the Green Triangle, New South Wales and Western Australia.
If you would like to catch up with FSC on these trips reach out to Policy and Standards Manager Stefan Jensen on [email protected]
