Forestry

Sinced the anti-logging campaigns of the 1970s, growing timber in Australia has been a controversial business. In Tasmania the industry is often accused of converting too much of its forests to wood chip which is exported to Japan for not very much … [Read more...] about Reports on Tasmanian Pulp Mill Proposal Give Green Light

Forestry Tasmania has set out on a mission to establish a new benchmark for openness and transparency in the debate over the management of our forests. So far, we have thrown open the doors of our headquarters in Hobart to the media. We have started … [Read more...] about Tall Stories About Tasmanian Forestry: A Note from Ken Jeffreys

"Today the Australian Government launched a Global Initiative on Forests and Climate. This represents a material advance in the global effort to tackle climate change and protect the world's forests, according to a media release from the office of … [Read more...] about Global Initiative on Forests and Climate: Media Release from Australian Prime Minister

Hi Jennifer, For a second time since the late 1980’s a pulp mill in Tasmania has been delayed by green campaigning. This week we will see if another pulp mill – a value adding, downstream processing, job-creating factory – will also be thrown on … [Read more...] about Tasmanian Pulp Mill at Crossroads: A Note from Cinders

In a new book ‘Eco-Freaks, Environmentalism is hazardous to your health’, John Berlau contends that environmentalists have promoted doomsday scenarios some of which have proven to be false, and that nature is not always benign and can sometimes … [Read more...] about Eco-Freaks: A New Book by John Berlau (Part 2, Trees Can Cause Smog)

Dear Jennifer, This morning 23rd March, an item on 'AM' the ABC Radio current affairs programme quoted an ARTC (Australian Rail Track Corporation) report as saying that the use of timber sleepers results in 500x the carbon emissions compared to … [Read more...] about Red Gum vs Concrete Sleepers: A Note From Vic Eddy