Forestry, Logging and Timber Industry

From tobacco to cauliflowers to timber, Manjimup has long struggled to find an identity that sticks. Where the small WA town heads next is the million-dollar question.  

Those looking to build a new home in a state "bursting at the seams" could face higher costs and longer completion times due to a looming shortage of hardwood.

An 81-year-old Tasmanian Aboriginal elder says Australian courts hold no jurisdiction over Indigenous people and he will not participate in the court process after being charged at a native forest protest. Now a warrant has been issued for his arrest.

After celebrating the end of native forest logging in Victoria, conservationists say it continues under another name.

Tetepare was once home to tribes of people, before it was abruptly deserted about 200 years ago. Now, descendants are protecting it from logging and climate change.

Vulnerable Australians like Michelle Ryder are in for a tough winter as cost-of-living pressures force them to choose between heating their homes and buying groceries.

A High Court challenge against the "self-regulating" aspect of Tasmania's public forestry company fails, clearing the way for native forest logging to continue at a coupe near Derby.

A "heartbreaking" stand of "skeletons" along one of the Sunshine Coast's most popular scenic drives is sobering evidence that bunya pine dieback is spreading, while a team of experts search for ways to save the iconic trees.

Businessman Geoff Cousins has been involved in many successful environmental campaigns and has now turned his attention to the logging of native forests on the Mid North Coast. 

A community group is celebrating after the state government refused to let an exploration company clear habitat vital to the endangered Carnaby's black cockatoo. But the company has vowed to appeal.

The world's biggest producer of sandalwood, which owns vast amounts of land in northern Australia, is on the verge of collapse.

After being forced to abandon projects due to EPA's stop-work order, logging contractor Ian Slater is struggling to see a future for his family business. 

This third-generation logger says he is on the verge of bankruptcy while environmental advocates say they will continue to put pressure on the industry until native forest logging is banned.  

After flying over the proposed site for a dam in south-west Tasmania, Eartha Kitt lent her voice to a national campaign to save the Franklin River from damming.

Legal representatives for VicForest reveal it will cease to exist beyond June, after multiple court cases and heavy scrutiny of its business practices.

One of Australia's largest paper and packaging manufacturers announces a plan to cut hundreds of jobs at its Australian and New Zealand businesses.

A large volume of pine destined for mills is declared "unsalvageable" following an out-of-control blaze west of Ballarat last month.

Hundreds of blue gum plantations growing across Western Australia could go from paper pulp to high-rise supports as experts look to unlock a vast native timber supply.

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.