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Logging site at Mt Horsfall.

Inside the fight to save the last Victorian Highlands forest fairies

Faced with ‘government inaction’ on protecting Australia’s most critically endangered animals, these campaigners are taking matters into their own hands.

  • Bianca Hall

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Debris the Forestry Corporation of NSW left behind from its logging operations near Batemans Bay.

Forestry Corp’s wooden-headed inflation of timber stats is no surprise

On the eve of the expected announcement of the boundaries for the Great Koala National Park comes a disturbing revelation about the state government’s troubled logging arm.

  • The Herald's View
Bush Users’ Group founder Bill Schulz has launched the most successful Victorian petition ever, campaigning against new national parks.

How our national parks got dragged into the culture wars

The bitter fight against national parks has attracted a motley crew of prospectors, 4WD enthusiasts, shooters, horse riders, unionists and micro-parties.

  • Bianca Hall
A native forest logging site in Wild Cattle Creek state forest in December, part of the assessment area for the Great Koala National Park.

‘Fiasco’: State government loggers caught out exaggerating wood harvest

Forestry Corporation of NSW has blamed a “data extraction error” for the massive discrepancies in the biomaterial reports.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Ranger Martin Smith in Bindarri National Park.

State loggers admit to ‘very serious offence’ in felling a hectare of national park forest

The state forestry body also reported a $29 million loss in its hardwood division for 2023–24, and a productivity report has found the industry is economically unviable.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The Great Koala National Park will affect many people living and working on the Mid North Coast.

A national park would be good for koalas. What about the humans?

In the stretch of coast and hinterland from Kempsey to Grafton, the fates of thousands of people hinge for better or worse on the NSW government’s imminent decision about the Great Koala National Park.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Koala inside the boundaries of the proposed Great Koala National Park.

‘This activity is a real threat’: MPs piling on pressure over state’s koala park promise

Premier Chris Minns is being urged to immediately end logging inside the boundaries of the proposed Great Koala National Park.

  • Nick O'Malley
Clearcut forest in Clouds Creek in 2022, within the area proposed to be part of the Great Koala National Park.

The government promised a koala national park. Then the loggers moved in

Forests on the North Coast are earmarked for a national park to protect “the best patch of koala habitat in the world”, but the area is still being logged in epic proportions.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Forests are crucial for curbing biodiversity loss. Orangutans are one species endangered by deforestation.

A ‘crazy’ new scheme to save world’s forests

What if stopping deforestation became a money spinner for developing countries?

  • Manuela Andreoni
Carnarvon’s famed One Mile Jetty will be repaired with timber from Malaysia.

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.

  • Hamish Hastie

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