The head of Tasmania's largest native sawmill warns no-one in the industry wants a return to the "forest wars" and says wood from forests the Government is proposing to reopen to logging may go unclaimed.
Tension is building between Australia's first publicly listed timber company and the country's largest abalone producer, over a proposed multi-user wharf on Kangaroo island.
Environmentalists step up their campaign against the harvesting of timber in north-west Tasmania over fears logging will threaten the giant freshwater crayfish population.
European settlement has altered Australia's environment in ways we're only now beginning to understand, and nowhere is that more clear than in WA's South West.
A Queensland council becomes the first in the state to adopt a wood encouragement policy that will see it prioritise timber in its construction projects.
The Labor Party in Tasmania is still considering its position on the Government's plan to open up more areas to logging, Upper House MP Craig Farrell says.
Residents in South Australia's south-east have the chance to get their hands on a free pine Christmas tree this year, thanks to a festive giveaway from two local organisations.
A Papua New Guinean villager's six-year battle to stop logging around his home has won him an international human rights award and given him the chance to lobby the United States Government for help.
Forestry Tasmania dismisses concerns harvesting timber from two coupes containing wedge-tailed eagle nests on the Frankland River will threaten the nests.
Protesters stop logging operations for a second time in a week in the south-east forests of New South Wales, claiming Forestry Corporation of NSW has breached regulations.
A team of scientists, naturalists and amateur scientists have coalesced on the Tarkine wilderness in north-west Tasmania in the latest step in the campaign to declare it a national park.
The Tasmanian Government is persisting with plans to unlock quarantined forests, despite a major timber processor revealing it is opposed to the the move.
Australia's paper industry is seeing more than a 12 per cent hike in demand for Australian produced packaging paper, and pine plantations need to expand as a result.