The director of Tasmania’s Conservation Trust wants assurances from the Tasmanian State Government that they intend to end broad scale clearing of native vegetation. Source: ABC Rural Just before Christmas, Resources Minister Paul Harriss announced a six-month extension to the r

Delays from the EPA in pursuing fines issued to the Forestry Corporation for bulldozing through exclusion areas means they will not be paid. Source: The Daily Examiner The Forestry Corporation was fined $11,000 for bulldozing a road through two koala high-use trees and 24 threatened p

Logging opponents in Tasmania’s north-west are providing training sessions for residents who want to participate in protests. Source: ABC News The Forests of Lapoinya Action Group (FLAG) is lobbying to protect 49 hectares of native regrowth forest, which according to FLAG is hom

AUStimber 2016 will be a multi-function event for leading harvesting and processing head designer and manufacturer Waratah. “We will be utilising the opportunity to host our Worldwide Waratah Distribution meeting as well host a number of customers and design engineers from all o

Wayne Shaw-Johnston’s first encounter with production forestry was as a university student in South Africa before embarking on a career that over the past 30 years has seen him in various management roles in South Africa, Tasmania and Gippsland. Source: Timberbiz Now Mr Shaw-Johnston

David Chandler OAM is a construction and housing industry expert and doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to what has been done, what can be done and what should be done to ensure the future of timber enterprises. Source: Timberbiz In the first of two no-holds-barred pieces, b

Residents on the NSW south coast have expressed alarm at “metres high” piles of logs, leaves and branches left on forest floors after logging, as the bushfire season approaches. Source: Sydney Morning Herald The piles of logging slash, in areas stretching between Nowra and

A shareholder class action against some former directors and officers of timber company Gunns Limited has been settled, subject to Federal Court approval. Source: ABC News The defendants include former chairman John Gay, former managing director Greg L’Estrange, and former secre