Forestry
A ‘crazy’ new scheme to save world’s forests
What if stopping deforestation became a money spinner for developing countries?
- by Manuela Andreoni
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Heritage
WA’s most iconic heritage places to be repaired with overseas wood
The WA Heritage Council has described the lack of WA-grown hardwood as a significant issue for large-scale heritage projects.
- by Hamish Hastie
They weren’t hippies, but Hugh and Nan started Australia’s first anti-logging protest
In the 1970s, an unlikely coalition set in motion the first generation of environmental defending.
- by Stephen Wyatt
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Farming
‘Lost more than half our forest’: Why NSW is a global hotspot for deforestation
NSW landowners cleared land equivalent to almost twice the size of the Australian Capital Territory over the five years to 2023.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘Far from happy about it’: WA environment minister orders report after 800-year-old tree cut down
Western Australia’s environment minister has ordered an investigation after an 800-year-old tree in the state’s south-west was cut down to a stump.
Political fight sparks as electricity network axes timber power poles
Essential Energy, the electricity distributor that covers 95 per cent of NSW, is switching to composite poles to make its network more resilient in bushfires.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Alcoa investigation
Worries of ‘irreversible’ damage to jarrah forest by Alcoa revealed
Water Corporation concluded that contamination of Perth’s dams is “certain” but the state government heavily watered-down its recommendations to reduce the risks from bauxite mining.
- by Peter Milne
Myths, spin and outright lies: the truth behind the logging industry
Scientist David Lindenmayer confronts the entrenched myths around the Australian logging industry and our native tall forests.
- by Kurt Johnson
‘Long-term pain’: Scientists warn against WA’s prescribed burn regime
Is it time the government rethinks its prescribed burning practices? New research says it’s making forests more flammable, not less, but the state stands firm.
- by Sarah Brookes
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Endangered species
Why can’t Forestry find any gliders, when everyone else can?
It has all the ingredients of a Monty Python sketch: bureaucrats shuffling around a forest looking for nocturnal animals in the middle of the day.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Alcoa boosts research amid concerns ‘extensive knowledge gaps’ threaten Perth’s water supply
Alcoa’s funding will support a forest research centre for five years and will also boost its own team of environmental researchers from four to eleven.
- by Peter Milne
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