Forestry, Logging and Timber Industry

Most of the 1,000 different eucalyptus tree varieties are native to Australia but not all belong in a pristine wetland.

Tasmania's native forestry estate covers 812,000 hectares, including walking and biking trails, but 19 people have been given indefinite bans from entering any of it. The move is facing a constitutional challenge.

VicForests says the risk of more court proceedings is the main reason for bringing forward the end to community forestry in Victoria's west. 

The collapse of the forestry investment scheme has left landowners owed millions, as an expert questions why Quintis did not pulp its own stock to reduce oversupply.

Swifts Creek in Victoria's high country lost its major industry when native logging ended, but some community members hope gold mining could help replace lost jobs.

Residents near the Ourimbah State Forest have aired concerns over debris left behind by loggers, with experts claiming the remains are a threat to homes and lives.

The case was the first legal challenge to a regional forestry agreement in NSW, and argued the forestry industry was impacting on endangered species, climate change and old growth forests.

The winery in South Australia's Barossa Valley is among six around the world that still have a functioning Cooperage.

Supreme Court orders limited the areas available for logging in 2022, leaving many scrambling to find alternative work with some contractors starting anew after decades in the industry.

The state government has banned native logging. Here's what that means if you're building a home, stoking your home fire, or doing up your garden.

After decades of campaigning, environmental groups are celebrating the end of native timber logging in Victoria. But timber workers like Warren Fenner are grieving the end of an era, and are facing an uncertain future.

Four trees thought to be more than 150 years old were found felled in an area of NSW that had been largely burnt by bushfires just months before.

Sandalwood giant Quintis has taken action on its plantations in the face of millions of dollars in losses.

A scientist has argued the federal government needs to add another zero to its $70 million package to accelerate the timber industry’s transition to more sustainable practices.

A court orders VicForests to cease timber harvesting in Wombat State Forest as a community group alleges further breaches against threatened species in other parts of the state.

A Victorian government program to plant 16 million trees over the next decade has delivered just 4,000 trees in its first year, and timber communities are concerned they will not see work for decades.

An AI-based analysis of 20 years of logging by VicForests, shared exclusively with the ABC, shows for the first time the potential scale of failed regeneration in Victoria's state forests.

A group of scientists, including high-profile environmentalist Tim Flannery, warn that United States aluminium giant Alcoa is risking the future of Western Australia's environmentally vulnerable jarrah forests.

A legal bid to halt logging in two NSW state forests scorched during Black Summer has failed after the court ruled evidence about the impact on koalas could not be considered.

More than 100 pro-logging protesters rally outside a north coast council meeting.

Sandalwood giant Quintis has sold 363 hectares of its Kununurra sandalwood portfolio to northern cattle identity Sterling Buntine as the price of the heartwood continues to drop.

Born in Williamstown and schooled in Wangaratta, the outgoing Victorian premier has made major decisions affecting regional communities during his time as state leader — and not all of them have made him popular.

The EPA has issued a stop-work order for timber harvesting in Tallaganda State Forest following the discovery of a deceased endangered glider.

Wildlife workers and researchers are calling for a temporary koala refuge on Kangaroo Island while a long-term management plan for the species is being put in place.

Environmental groups say they have discovered a "dense" population of the endangered marsupials in an area of Tallaganda State Forest that was left unscathed by the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-2020.