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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

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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
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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Local activists and forest saviours Hugh and Nan Nicholson.

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.

  • Stephen Wyatt
Land clearing near Armidale.

‘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.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The centuries-old natural wonder was discovered razed to the ground; (inset) Reece Whitby; and the tree’s stump.

‘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.

Logs are sorted before being taken to a mill near Coffs Harbour.

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.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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